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At the intersection of center and periphery: Kurdish language in the Turkish monolingual sphere
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis focuses on, monolingualist paradigm, World Literature system and translation as its main tool. While Turkish and Kurdish, Turkish Literature and Kurdish literature provide a fruitful contest area to these ... -
Nationalizing the desire : female identity in the novels written between 1909-1928
(Bilkent University, 2019-01)In this study, it is aimed to examine the decisive role of desire in the acquisition of national identity. The novels which caused a break in the fictionalization of women, such as Raik’in Annesi (1909), Seviyye Talip ... -
The effect of paratexts on fiction: Bir Muâdele-i Sevda [An Equation of Love]
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)In this study, Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s (1864–1944) novel Bir Muâdele-i Sevda [An Equation of Love], serialized in 1899, is analyzed with its paratexts. Focusing on the preface and the author’s interviews concerning the ... -
Making a cosmopolitan model in Rûm: Dâ’î and 15th century Ottoman textual culture
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)In this study, the texts written by the 15th century court-poet Dâ’î, his literary identity and his audience are examined within the scope of vernacularization and the concept of edeb. Therefore, it is accepted that the ... -
Bilge Karasu's animals : ethical and political encounters
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)In his fiction and intellectual works Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) emphatically addresses the ethical and political problems that Critical Animal Studies have recently focused on in terms of human-animal relationships. In these ... -
Carriages in early Turkish novel
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)This thesis examines the rules and conventions surrounding the use of carriages in early Turkish novels and the changes these rules and conventions went through. It seeks to capture the details that a modern reader tends ... -
Comparative queer readings : queer potentials in the texts of Kulin, Mungan and Toptaş
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)This thesis analyses twelve contemporary Turkish literary texts having the focus on queer theory. These are the tetralogy of Ayşe Kulin’s including Gizli Anların Yolcusu, Bora’nın Kitabı, Dönüş and Handan novels, Murathan ... -
Traces of “Carnivalesque” in the ihsan Oktay Anar’s novels
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)İhsan Oktay Anar (b. 1960), one of the most extraordinary authors in the field of Turkish literature, published his first novel in 1995. In this study, I analyze all of Anar’s seven published novels—Puslu Kıtalar Atlası ... -
Body-soul problem in Peyami Safa's novel : Yalnızız
(Bilkent University, 2002-06)Peyami Safa (1899-1961), whose Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu (1930) is one of the best novels of the early Republican period, had been mostly recognized for his psychological descriptions. Although Safa produced numerous ... -
Modernist change in the poetry of Metin Eloğlu
(Bilkent University, 2016-12)Metin Eloğlu whose poems were published between the years of 1943-1984 is a poet who could remain unique in the modernization of Turkish poetry, in a poetry environment where the movements of Garip and İkinci Yeni generated ... -
Comparison of the motif of lovers “falling in love for the first time” in the 'Işkname Farruh u Hümâ and in romances of İran
(Bilkent University, 2016-06)Taking the fourteenth-century Ottoman romance(Mathnawî) 'ışkname (Ferruh u Hümâ) as its point of departure, this study offers a comparison of the motifs used in the narration of love, the main theme of romances, in the ... -
Conveyor of adab, the power of 'ilm: the legitimacy of poetry in the mukaddime of meşâirü'ş-şu'arâ
(Bilkent University, 2016-06)Focusing on the introduction (mukaddime) of Meşâirü'ş-Şu'arâ, a biographical dictionary written by Aşık Çelebi, this thesis deals with the text‘s description and discussion of the legitimacy of poetry with reference to the ... -
Female bildungsroman in the pre-republican Turkish literature
(Bilkent University, 2016-06)Bu tezde 1896-1922 yılları arasında yazılmış beş roman (Fatma Aliye’den Refet ve Udi, Halit Ziya’dan Aşk-ı Memnu, Halide Edib’den Handan ve Reşat Nuri Güntekin’in Çalıkuşu) kadın oluşum romanı olarak incelenmektedir. Oluşum ... -
Fictions of masculinites in Ottoman literature (17th, 18th, 19th centuries)
(Bilkent University, 2016-06)The primary purpose of this dissertation is to understad the changing fictions of masculinites in Ottoman literature, especially poems of 17th , 18th, 19th centuries. In this way, 7 literary works which reflects the social ... -
Description of the visual art objects in Evliyâ Çelebi‘s book of travels: an ekphrastic approach
(Bilkent University, 2016-06)As a part of the ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical practices, ekphrasis basically means the verbalisation of a visual object, and it has become a literary tool in time. Since the description of Achilles‘ shield in Homer‘s ... -
From social to intellectual structures : creating subject and language in Oğuz Atay's texts
(Bilkent University, 2015)An important move of Oğuz Atay, in his novels Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected, 1971–72) and Tehlikeli Oyunlar (Dangerous Games, 1973) is his turning attention to the intellectual questions of Turkey and the dilemma of ... -
Tanzimat romanında kamusal alan ve serbest zaman etkinlikleri
(Bilkent University, 2007)The Tanzimat period overtly accelareted the Westernization process and as such, it brought about various socio-cultural changes, and these changes are distinctly observed in the realms of public sphere and leisure ... -
Osmanlı edebiyatında dönüşümün şiiri : sulhiyyeler
(Bilkent University, 2007)Ottoman Empire, as many historians have argued, entered a period of “disintegration” in the 17th century. Ottoman Empire, which began to collapse starting with the defeat in Vienna in 1683, and had to accept its defeat ... -
19 yüzyıl Osmanlı-Türk romanında gayrimüslim imgeleri
(Bilkent University, 2007)This thesis aims at exploring the changing images of non-Muslim characters in five novels written in the last quarter of the 19th century, namely Karabibik (1891) by Nabizade Nazım; Turfanda mı Yoksa Turfa mı? (1892) by ... -
XVIII yüzyıl Osmanlı şiirinde değişim ve Sünbülzâde Vehbi'nin Şevk-engiz'i
(Bilkent University, 2007)An obvious change can be seen in the Ottoman Poetry and especially in the “mesnevi” tradition towards the end of the eighteenth century. The most popular samples of this change which is called “localization” (mahallîleşme), ...
