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Item Stuck between two worlds: Karamanlidika literary production, Evangelinos Misailidis and Temaşa-i Dünya ve Cefakâr u Cefakeş as a case of rewriting(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.) Şişmanoğlu Şimşek, Şehnaz.; Köroğlu, Erol.; Misaēlidis, Euangelinos,This dissertation aims to situate in modern Turkish literature a narrative fiction, previously overlooked by Turkish literary historians, called Temaşa-i Dünya ve Cefakâr u Cefakeş (1871-1872) by Evangelinos Misailidis (1820-1890), an Ottoman Christian-Orthodox citizen. The dissertation is built on three objectives: First of all, Karamanlidika literature is foregrounded as one of the significant aspects forming the plurality of nineteenth century Ottoman literature. Secondly, Karamanlidika literature is analysed in terms of its processes of production and multidimensional relations of dominance with contemporary Ottoman-Muslim-Turkish and Greek literatures analysing Temaşa-i Dünya as a case study. The third objective is to criticise the argument that Temaşa-i Dünya is just an imitation of the Greek novel O Polipathis (1839). Using mainly Gérard Genette’s theoretical framework and narratological concepts, it can be said that Misailidis has significantly transformed Polipathis semantically and literarily, by changing the style and the language of the narrative, adding different characters, stories and contexts as well as traditional folklore forms having muslim and non-muslim origins. Hence, this study also focuses on the problem of the rewriting of a text using varied writing strategies. The major factor determining the content, literary features and the genre of Temaşa-i Dünya is “liminality”; described as “being in a threshold state ‘betwixt and between’ existing orders.” A member of the Turcophone Anatolian Orthodox community, often treated as being an anomaly by the Grecophone Greek authorities from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, Misailidis, stuck between Ottoman/Greek, Muslim and Anatolian identities, created a narrative which is “liminal” in various aspects. The text moves between the ideology of the Greek Enlightenment, the social and linguistic Ottoman-Greek and Ottoman-Muslim traditions and the Christian Orthodox religion. Finally, this dissertation claims that, as it contains a diversity of genres and speech as well as new narrative possibilities, Temaşa-i Dünya is an original novel that reveals the multicultural Ottoman world and Ottoman literature in the nineteenth century.Item The geograpy of Ottoman poetry :|cities in ghazels(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.) Akçay, Ülkü.; Büyükkarcı Yılmaz, Fatma.In this dissertation, it is aimed to reveal how cities are used as poetic materials in classical Turkish literature. The study is based on the ghazels of almost three hundred and fifty divans, those were written between the 14th and 19th centuries. As it is a necessity to narrow the data into a classifiable amount, the review of the place names in kaside, kıta, terkibibent and similar verse forms are excluded from the scope of the study. The thesis aims to make a contribution to the determination of the geography of Ottoman poetry and the cultural aspect of Ottoman history. In the first chapter of the study; the discussions, descriptions and opinions on the city, the Islamic city and the Ottoman city are mentioned briefly. Furthermore the genres of the classical Turkish literature, in which the cities were mentioned, and the examples of these genres are studied. In the second chapter; information on the locations, social characteristics and historical backgrounds of major geographies, countries, regions and states are provided and the aspects in which these cities stand out in the ghazels are explained with examples. An assessment on how cities were handled in ghazels is also made. With information on the political and social backgrounds of the cities in the ghazels, the third chapter is composed of a detailed review of the usage of cities as poetic materials.Item Potentials of women’s writing : a gyno-critical reading In Turkish literature (1895-1950)(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Ulusman, Bilge.; Akyıldız, Olcay.This thesis makes a gyno-critical reading of women writers’ stories and novels -after the modern literary genres occured- from Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete in which the constitutive discourse of women’s writing has gained a sudden intensity in late Ottoman period up to the demands of parity (müsavat-ı tamme) in Second Constitutional Era and the pathriarcal tutelage in the early modern Turkish Republican period. For this reason, this study tries to determine the common themes, images and narrative strategies of the excluded women’s writing by male-dominated literary canon and the “antithetical mirror” of Ottoman intellectuals or state feminism. Thereby this thesis seeks for an alternative representation of women’s writing to established literary historiographies and periodisation; and tries to make women writers’ challenge strategies to patriarchal sexual politics and conversion of literary genres or narrative functions clear.Item Firdevsī-i Rūmī’s Tecnisat-ı Süleymān u Belkīs-Name Vol. I: textual analysis, transcribed text, facsimile and index = Firdevsī-i Rūmī’nin Tecnīsāt-ı Süleymān u Belkīs-Nāme’ si I. cilt: inceleme, trankripsiyonlu metin, tıpkıbasım ve indeks(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Altuntaş, Resul.; Büyükkarcı Yılmaz, Fatma.The subject of this thesis is; to present the text of Firdevsī-i Rūmī’s Tecnīsāt-ı Süleymān u Belkīs-Nāme, as a text publication and it aims to make a critique of the literary value and view of the text on both the poet's life and the historical events he witnessed in his period. The first volume of Tecnīsāt, which consists of four volumes, is the subject of this study. In the first chapter, the new information revealed by the work in the context of Firdevsi's life, other works of the author and value of Tecnīsāt as a Selim-nāme are mentioned. The second chapter provides a comprehensive summary of Tecnīsāt, focusing in particular on the political struggle between Selim I (reign 1512-1520) and Shah Ismail (reign 1501-1524), the Battle of Çaldıran (1514), Selim's succession to the Ottoman throne from his father and the conquest of the eastern provinces, and the arguments used to emphasize Selim's rightfulness in his struggle for the throne against his father. In the third chapter, Tecnīsāt is analyzed in terms of form. The types of puns (cinas) are given with examples from the text and the poet's savings on verse forms. In the fourth chapter, the conclusion part is included, and in the fifth chapter, the transcripted text of the first volume of Tecnīsāt-ı Süleymān u Belkīs-Nāme is given. In the sixth chapter a pun dictionary and in the seventh chapter an index of place and person names in the text was prepared.