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A crisis of representation :|the literary identity of hijabi woman in Turkish novels
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.) Balta, İclal Didem.; Köroğlu, Erol.
This dissertation examines the ethical and problematic meaning attributed to hijabi woman identity representations in Turkish novels (1910-2017) in terms of narrative ethics. Hijabi woman, who is the subject of this dissertation, will be demonstrated masquerading as a guise or a marginal excess at the literary scene in the framework of the post-structuralist approach's information (Derrida, Lacan, Ahmed). Using the notion of "narrative progression," it explores the problematic conditions of production and reception of the hijabi typologies, which also strongly influences the woman's self-image. By focusing on three breaking points in the representation of the hijabi characters, this study argues that hijab carries a meaning that textualizes the woman image as a persona who lacks individual self-identity and agency elements. These breaking points, which are examined in four separate sections, also correspond with the periodization of the issue of hijab, respectively as “conversion” (1910-1960), “neglection” (1960-1997), “exclusion,” and “inclusion” (1997-up to now) in this study. At each breaking point, the definition of hijabi characters changes, and they are categorized as “veiled,” “headscarfed,” and “turbaned” figures who exhibit the problematic aspects of modernization by their bodies. Hijab, as the primary signification of the “conversion,” is examined as the boundary between a woman's self-identity and the representation of this in Turkish novels that function as a symbol for writers to manifest their political stands. This symbolic role requires the woman protagonist to get through mental, physical, and psychological stages that introduce unveiling as the criteria of abandoning the premodern lifestyle and attaining the modern ideal. The different narrative strategies employed in materializing women refer that the problems inherent to women’s representation do not progress solely in a chronology, but multiple dynamics make this open to inner differentiation. In this sense, the problematic identity of hijab unfolds cultural gender issue that essentially shows the symbolic value of the body.
Âlî Efendi’s Târîh-i Engürüs and the literary context of Ottoman historical narratives
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.) Pomakoğlu, Ayşegül.; Sabuncu, Zeynep.
The subject of this dissertation is Târîh-i Engürüs, a literary work which describes the events that took place during the Ottoman campaign on Hungary between 1593 1596. The manuscript is recorded in Revan 1302, Topkapı Palace Museum Library. It is understood from the poems in the text that the work belongs to an author who uses the penname ʿÂlî. In the Ottoman literature, the works which were based on conquests, military campaigns and victories can be named as gazavatname, fetihname or tarih. As a literary genre these works can be gathered under the title of “fetihname” according to their common features in terms of content, language and literary expression. Târîh-i Engürüs which was written in eloquent prose, is a successful example of fetihname genre with its use of inşa style and metaphors. In the first chapter of the thesis we discussed the historical and literary context of Târîh i Engürüs by giving information about the political situation of the Ottoman empire at the end of 16th century and by defining the fetihname genre. In the second chapter, the persona of author ʿÂlî Efendi was discussed. Then the events in Târîh-i Engürüs were summarized. In the third chapter we identified the text’s literary and stylistic aspects. In the sixth chapter, the transcribed text of Târîh-i Engürüs was given. An alphabetical index of people and places was added at the end of the text for people who would make further research on the subject. Moreover a dictionary was compiled to make it easier for the readers to understand the text.
An analysis of the terminology of textual production methods in sixteenth-century Ottoman şair tezkires
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.) Konar, Aişe Handan.; Toska, Zehra.
Şair tezkires (tezkiretü’ş-şu‘arâ) or biographical dictionaries of poets are regarded as the most prominent literary/historical sources of Ottoman literature. Originated in the Arabic and remodeled in the Persian tradition, şair tezkires emerged in the sixteenth century as a separate literary genre in the Ottoman realm and continued up until the twentieth century unceasingly. Tezkires not only provide us with the basic background information about a poet’s life and his/her poesy/poetics, but they also give samples of their poems, hence displaying a mixture of the two genres, biography and anthology. This thesis is based upon and derives from sixteenth-century şair tezkires written in the Ottoman literary domain. In this study, methods of textual production are the main focus of interest in the context of those tezkires. There have been various definitions and classifications of the works produced in the Ottoman literature. Yet based on a different type of evaluation, this study pursues a different kind of classification and focuses on how the works/texts were composed; that is, the terms that indicate the ways, methods of textual production which could be listed as tetebbu‘, nazîre, cevâb, terceme, şerh, tasnîf, te’lîf, tazmîn and so on are discussed in detail, and all the usages of these terms by the sixteenth-century tezkire authors are presented with their intra-lingual translations. Thus, this thesis has put forth both a study of terminology and a discourse analysis.
Authority, will, and subjectivity in Fatma Aliye’s writings and novels
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Özdoğan, Başak Deniz.; Kara, Halim.
This thesis focuses on Fatma Aliye's emergence as a writer and her motivation to exist as a modern Ottoman woman subject in a male-dominated literary public. It achieves this aim mainly in light of Meram's publication process, the Turkish translation of Georges Ohnet's Volonté by Fatma Aliye. Thus, this dissertation has three interconnected arguments. My first argument is that her biography, Fatma Aliye Hanım yahud Bir Muharrire-i Osmaniye'nin Neş'eti, written by Ahmet Mithat Efendi, has shaped literary history and Fatma Aliye’s reception until this day. Secondly, I argue that, on the one hand, Fatma Aliye did comply with Ahmet Mithat Efendi's perspective strategically with an effort not to lose the support of the most influential literary patron, on the other hand, while reconciling with this perspective, Fatma Aliye has found the place to manifest her conflict and objection to the patriarchy after the publication of Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete and her novel Refet. In order to highlight Fatma Aliye's conflict and objection against Ahmet Mithat Efendi's narrative about her authorship, this dissertation offers a new periodization for Fatma Aliye's writership dividing it into two periods. Thirdly, Meram is a root text. It does not only encapsulates Fatma Aliye's authorship capacity as a translator and writer, but also reflects and reveals key debates, contradictions, themes, and characterization in her novels. In light of Meram's inextricably linked roles, this dissertation examines the author's reconciliation and reckoning with her "fathers" and her relationship with patriarchy by focusing on the relationship between the concepts of will, authority, and patriarchy.
Body and symptom : illness in Peyami Safa’s novels
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Yücekurt Ünlü, Şerife Seda.; Akyıldız, Olcay.
This dissertation examines the representation of illness in Peyami Safa’s novels. It primarily aims to answer the question of how illness is embodied in both the human body and the body of fiction in Peyami Safa’s corpus. Additionally, this study explores the interplay between these bodies and raises the issue of illness being used as a literary device to portray marginalization. This study also takes into account the works published under the pseudonym Server Bedi, which have received limited attention in Turkish literary studies. In this dissertation, illness as a thematic and narratological element points to a fundamental difference between the novels signed with Peyami Safa’s name and those signed under the pseudonym Server Bedi. This study mainly argues that illness serves as a crucial aspect in Peyami Safa’s engagement with writing. It also problematizes the idea of finitude/infinity thematically and deepens the problem of writing a modern “novel” stylistically. The present study intends to offer a fresh and comprehensive perspective on Peyami Safa's corpus. Furthermore, it seeks to contribute to the illness and health studies in Turkish literature and provides a groundwork for further research in this field.
“Constructing the Self” :|representations of masculinity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's novels
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.) Atik, Egem.; Kara, Halim.
This dissertation explores the representations of masculinity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s novels. Each chapter focuses on the principal themes and issues which play a significant role in the construction of masculinities in the novels. In this respect, this thesis examines fatherhood and filiality in Mahur Beste, health and illness in Huzur and Suat’ın Mektubu, militarism and nationalism in Sahnenin Dışındakiler, business life and entrepreneurship in Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, and love and sexuality in Aydaki Kadın, to investigate the strategies Tanpınar uses for problematizing masculinities and the literary connotations of such problematization. The study primarily argues that the protagonists’ inability to construct socially accepted masculine identities puts them in a state of constant struggle with masculine norms. The portrayal of characters marginalized in the hierarchical gender regime provides the inquiry of the production, and the rooting of relations of dominance caused by such a regime. The protagonists’ relationships with other male characters performing different masculinities are also scrutinized in the study, which demonstrates that even characters who are admired for coming very close to constructing a successful masculinity fall short of the ideal. Thus, it is argued that the novels which depict the impossibility of a perfect model of masculinity question the features that are included and excluded in the definitions of ideal masculinity. Finally, the study sheds light on female characters’ “doing masculinity”, through which the novels undermine the stereotypes of femininity and masculinity.
Fantastic novel :|a genre of dubious existence in the shadow of Ottoman/Turkish modernization (1875-1960)
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.) Aslan, Pelin.; Esen, Nüket,
This dissertation examines fantastic novel genre in Turkish literature within the period between the late nineteenth century when the novel emerged as a new genre and the mid twentieth century which marks a turning point in terms of fantastic novel. The novel is perceived as a means by which the authors represent the modernization process they favor since they claim an active role in shaping of modernization discourse, starting from Tanzimat period, the Constitutional period and the declaration of the Republic till nineteen sixties. Within this context, the fantastic novel is materialized as a function to convey the authors’ own argumentations on modernization. The fantastic novel aims either to impose a modernization which is based on the rational, materialist and positivist world view or to include spiritual and mystical world view into the modernization. Nevertheless, it does not become widespread due to the social and the literary reasons, apart from the fact that it becomes a popular genre in nineteen forties when the modernization discourse loses its strictness and the publishing industry flourishes and diversifies. Having discussed some of those social and literary reasons, this dissertation concludes that the fantastic novel cannot display itself as a central genre but remains as a peripheral one within the time period of the scope of this dissertation.
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.
Heft Peyker Mesnevis in Turkish literature and Hayâtî’s Heft Peyker
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.) Sürelli, Bahadır.; Toska, Zehra.
Starting from the question of how the Bahram Gor narratives have emerged in Persian literature, this work researches a sixteenth century Divan poet Hayâtî’s Haft Paykar, in terms of the dispersion of the subject to Anatolian field and examines how the Turkish writers has approached to these narratives. Therefore this thesis has many folds to make it clear. First of all, it should be determined that the historical personality of Sasanian king Bahram V whose life has been told as a legend in both Persian and Turkish literatures, and then we need to find the legendary narrative sources which his life has been nourished from. Hence, we will try to point out what are the sources that the story identified with, and how old are these stories. On the other hand, with a comperative analysis, it is aimed that the story of Bahram which was first in Persian then Turkish, how and by which poets has been told in literary works since Firdausi. As a chain linked between first with Firdausi, Nizami, Hosrau, and Ali Shir Navai and then with the other poets- the journey and the evolution of Bahram romance could have been followed. The other poets, translated Haft Paykar into Turkish until the time when Hayati wrote his Haft Paykar, have also been added to this process and all analized historically together. Another goal is to realize the most common features of the Haft Paykar texts and realize the new dimensions could been observed in the hands of each. Last of all, we tried put stress on Hayati’s text in terms of its unique features, language, and style. Due to the two existing manuscripts of the work we tried to determine the critical edition of the text as well.
Human voice echoing in the silence of god: worldliness and death in Tevfik Fikret’s poetry
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.) Küçük, Deniz Aktan.; Uysal, Zeynep.
This dissertation suggests a possible reading of Tevfik Fikret’s poetry with reference to worldliness and its conceptual manifestation of death within the context of nineteenth century Ottoman poetry. In doing this, this dissertation situates Fikret’s oeuvre within the framework of innovation experience of Ottoman poetry after eighteenth century while at the same time keeping a critical distance from the reliance of Westernization/modernization discourse and its categorization of Ottoman poetry as old and new after the second half of the nineteenth century. It interprets this innovation as a process where God-centered paradigm which dominated Ottoman poetry was replaced with a different paradigm locating subject and its worldy experience to the center. More specifically, this dissertation focuses on the story of the Ottoman subject who struggles to build the new paradigm to give voice to its poetry as God ceases to be the sole determinant. Therefore, this dissertation discusses the poetry of Fikret in the course of a struggle which aims to give the ground on which the poetry and then the subject are to be determined. And it takes up death as a key concept in understanding such a subject’s struggle.
Kemal Ahmed Dede''s verse narrative Tercüme-i Menakıb-ı Mevlana (a verse version in The Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn tradition)
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.) Sinan Nizam, Betül.; Kut, Günay.
The essential aim of this dissertation is to uncover the life of one of the sixteenth century sufis and poets, Kemâl Ahmed Dede, forgotton among the Mevlevî sources, to present his mesnevi Tercüme-i Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ which is abridged translation of Menâkıbü‟l-Ârifîn in verse, and to discover his translation aims and methods. In order to achieve this, his menakıpname, his only work for the time being, has been examined in the frames of its form, translation aspects, content and style, then compared with main text if needed. There will be given some brief information about Menâkıbü‟l-Ârifîn, the most important work that describes Mevlânâ‟s and his successors‟ menkıbes in Turkish literature, and its translations and abbreviated retellings in Persian. By doing so, it has been tried to putforward the complete body of the works that includes Tercüme-i Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ as one of its versions. As a conclusion, this dissertation has approached to the subject not only as an analysis of poet and his work, but also as the context of intertextuality owing to its translation nature and aspects.
Literary form and ethics in Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s short stories = Sait Faik Abasıyanık’ın öykülerinde yazınsal biçim ve etik
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Şentürk, Semiha.; Uysal, Zeynep.
This dissertation argues that the literary form, in other words aesthetics, of Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s short stories forms the ethics of his works. In this study, I read closely the stories written by the realistic aesthetics, impressionistic and queer stories by Sait Faik. It is stated that he defends the good against the bad, shows the inner worlds of his characters by creating multidimensional, authentical individuals in the stories which Sait Faik stays in the margins of representation by using narration tools of realistic aesthetics. On the other hand, in the stories written by genre conventions of impressionistic story by using first person narrator, breaking the narrative structure, communicating the narratee utters no absolute experience and calls for empathy with “the other”. In his queer stories he writes the agonies, disappointments, and loneliness of his characters in a world where “the queer utopia” is not realized yet, his style that depends on the dialogue with the narratee is also a call for the dream of a queer world. Sait Faik is mostly evaluated by the content of his stories, yet this study aims at examining aesthetics of them in relation to their ethics.
Looking at the republican literature through novels on trial
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Çınar, Şenay.; Kara, Halim.
This dissertation, which aims to contribute to censorship studies in Turkish literature, focuses on fiction on trial from the birth of the Turkish Republic to the present. The primary goal of the study is the identification of these novels and their trial processes of them via archival work. The second stage is to determine the data obtained as a result of this archive through the most frequent and effective discursive themes in the sociocultural context. And third stage is to analyze these works selected by thematic division with the vehicles of literature. The main aim of this dissertation is to identify the cultural moments and regions where literature as a linguistic and discursive institution, and state practices and discourse meet, intersect and differentiate through censorship. Judgmental state repression concentrates on the literature on some sociocultural themes in each historical period. Thus, a line of judgment emerges, although not necessarily homogeneous. Each chapter contains four themes: minority, property, obscenity, and testimony. In this context, the second part of the thesis focuses on the literary censorship in the Early Republican Period around the minority issue. The third section analyzes fiction on trial because of "making communist propaganda", which intensified between 1940- 1960, in the context of the property. The fourth chapter examines the works prosecuted for obscenity, especially after the 1980s. Finally, the fifth part of the thesis focuses on the period after the 1990s and 2000s and prosecuted novels for "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" within the framework of testimony.
Modernity and subjectivity in the literary critism of Namık Kemal
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.) Altuğ, Fatih, 1977-; Esen, Nüket,
This dissertation examines the relation of the literary criticism of Namık Kemal to modern Ottoman subjectivity. There is a close relation between the literary criticism and the formulation of new Ottoman subjectivity. The late Ottoman production of subjectivity is the foundation of the critical subjectivity of Namık Kemal. This subjectivity is produced as a result of the traumatic encounter between occidental modernity and the 19th century Ottoman symbolic order. Critical attitudes are determined by the conditions of crisis. The literary criticism of Namık Kemal tries to recuperate Ottoman subjectivity which is injured by the alterity of occidental modernity. Within the critical conditions, Arabic, Persian and old Ottoman (divan) literatures in addition to the modern occidental literature are perceived as an alterity which is related to bringing order into the literary chaos. Exclusion, inclusion, abjection, idealization, universalization, nativization or nationalization are the main critical attitudes of Namık Kemal in order to cope with the crisis of literary and cultural alterities. This representational literary system produces the new Ottoman literary subjectivity by eliding the injuring alterity and occluding of the object of criticism in the interests of the modern Ottoman subject. Cultural and literary appropriations of the alterities show that the modern Ottoman literary subject is instituted through constraints, constituted through practices of subjection/subjectivization. The critical subjectivity of Namık Kemal, synchronously, produces an autonomous subject position and performs the essential subjection of the modern Ottoman literary criticism to the Arabic, Persian, old Ottoman and occidental literatures.
Muhyi's Hüsn ü Dil : an allegorical work
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.) Açıl, Berat.; Sabuncu, Zeynep.
New novel, old village: The history, origin and end of the village novel (1950-1980)
(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.) Irmak, İsmail Erkan.; Köroğlu, Erol.
This study examines the generic, cultural, historical and political determinants of village novels written roughly between 1950 and 1980. In the history of Turkish literature, every text on the village was included in the village novel genre without any criteria other than the place where the novel passed. In most cases, a similar reductionist approach has been exhibited in world literatures, and village novels have been classified only by looking at the scene where the events take place. In order to show the problems of this point of view, the novel has been analyzed in a conceptual way as a genre. Another issue addressed in the study is the question of how village novels should be defined in Turkish literature. With this intention, the Village Institutes that played a dominant role in the emergence of village novelists were examined and Mahmut Makal’s Bizim Köy, which could be considered as the first important representative of the graduates, was also interpreted historically and generically. In addition to literary theories, the historical, cultural and political conditions that set the stage for the emergence of these texts were taken into account and the question of how village novelists and their works were received in literary debates was questioned. Finally, focusing on Fakir Baykurt's novels, common features encountered in almost all village novels have been interpreted with close reading method. In conclusion, this study seeks to provide a new perspective to village novels, and to build a foundation to help future researches.
Poetic imagination in Edebiyat-ı Cedide movement
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Şen, Münire Sevgi.; Uysal, Zeynep.
This doctoral study aims to provide a comprehensive survey of literary criticism in the Servet-i Fünun magazine in the late 19th century, by focusing on the idea of imagination in the formation of the Edebiyat-ı Cedide’s aesthetics. This will be done by analyzing the members of the Edebiyat-ı Cedide’s engagement with the 19th century’s critical thought in general and their involvement in the Servet-i Fünun magazine in particular. The study aims to depict Edebiyat-ı Cedide’s aesthetics as a response to the transformation of the realm of knowledge in the late 19th century that took place as a result of the advancements in science and technology. In this study, the fundamental issue is to illustrate the impact of scientific knowledge in the formation of literary criticism in the magazine, and by doing so to discuss Edebiyat-ı Cedide’s aesthetic language formed by the body and bodily sensation. NOTE Keywords: imagination; Edebiyat-ı Cedide’s literary criticism; aesthetics.
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.
“Rewinding intricate century” : the spatio-temporal motion in Tevfik Fikret and Nazım Hikmet’s poems
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Narcı, Murat.; Kara, Halim.
This dissertation explores the linguistic records created by "bodily sensation" in the context of the spatio-temporal movement in Tevfik Fikret and Nazım Hikmet’s poetry. On the focus of time and space, it determines the vibrations occurring in Tevfik Fikret’s poetry as bodily signs and characterizes them as the "bourgeois body". For this reason, the only sign that shifts time and space in Tevfik Fikret's poetry is these vibrations that point to the "here and now" as emphasized by Fredric Jameson. This "bourgeois body" is shaped by the ideological formulation in Nazım Hikmet's poetry and turns into the "body-of-truth" putting forward by Alain Badiou. For this reason, the movement in Nazım Hikmet's poetry is in a structure that combines a Soviet model inspired by Mayakovsky and the voice of Tevfik Fikret. In that case, the writing style adopted by Nazım Hikmet carries the space of Tevfik Fikret's poetry to a Marxist ground and echoes the vibrations of image and sound in his poetry in a unique way. Therefore, he puts the "bourgeois body", which records such vibrations without destination, into the present of the "body-of-truth" with a temporal figuration. In this sense, this study, which takes on such a historical positioning of Turkish poetry through this two poets as its duty, aims to suggest new variations of poetry reading on spatial movements by following the traces of a wide range time debate.
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.

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