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Transnationalizing world novels: issues of literary translation and circulation in Turkey and in the Sinosphere
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)This thesis focuses on the international circulation of three literary works characterized by their creative use of mixed/hybridized and the comparison between the original versions and their translations. The thesis ... -
Mai ve Siyah romanının melankoli izleği ve yaratıcılık bağlamında incelemesi
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)Bu çalışma, Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil’in kaleme aldığı, Türkiye Edebiyatı’nda ilk modern roman olarak sınıflandırılan Mai ve Siyah’ı melankoli, yaratıcılık ve kötülük kavramları açısından incelemeyi hedefler. Melankoli bahsinde, ... -
“Türkiye’ nin ruhu”nda bir hayalet: modern Türk edebiyatı ve sinemasında Dostoyevski ile metinlerarası ve medyalararası karşılaşmalar
(Bilkent University, 2020-09)Bu çalışmada modern Türk edebiyatı ve Türk sinemasında Dostoyevski ile kurulan metinlerarası ve medyalararası ilişkiler incelenecek, kurulduğu düşünülen bu ilişkilerin Türk edebiyatı ve Türk sinemasına dair ne söylediği ... -
Bireyselleşme/özerkleşme istenci üzerinden 19. yüzyıl Osmanlı modernleşmesi
(Bilkent University, 2019-10)Bu çalışmada, 19. yüzyılda üretilen Tanzimat romanlarının bireyselleşme/özerkleşme istenci üzerinden okunabileceği düşüncesi ele alınmıştır. Taaşşuk-ı Talat ve Fıtnat (1872), Müsâmeretnâme (1872), Hasan Mellah (1874), ... -
An assessment of the Translation Bureau and the cultural politics of Turkey (1940-1946)
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)In this study, the cultural politics of the period is tried to be investigated through the activities of the Translation Bureau between 1940 and 1946. Hasan-Âli Yücel was appointed as the Minister of Culture in the government ... -
On the trace of young citizens: the political discourses, ideology and power relations in the children’s magazines of Gürbüz Türk Çocuğu and Sevgi Bir Kuş
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)This thesis inspects the reflections of the ideological aspects of a nation-state’s over childhood issue of the political powers of the early Republican era and the AKP government concerning two different periodicals called ... -
19. yüzyıl cep romanlarının beden-zihin denetimi ve romantik ilişkilenme biçimleri açısından modernleşmedeki yeri
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Bu tez, 19. yüzyıl sonunda yeni bir format olarak ortaya çıkan cep romanlarının, Arakel ve Şems kitapçıları tarafından basılan örneklerinde iktidar söylemleri ile kurmaca arasındaki ilişkileri incelemektedir. Yeni Tarihselci ... -
Halit Ziya hikâyelerini temaşa etmek: manzaranın keşfiyle dışa vurulan içsellik
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Bu tez teorik odağına Japon edebiyat eleştirmeni Kojin Karatani’nin Derinliğin Keşfi: Modern Japon Edebiyatının Kökenleri adlı çalışmasından “manzaranın keşfi”ni alarak bunu Halit Ziya’nın özellikle hikâyelerineve özellikle ... -
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 ...
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