Womanhood and gender relationships have been one of the first questions taken up as the natural extension of the modernization paradigm between the declaration of the First Constitution and the Republic. Even though ...

Evliyâ Çelebi,in his work Seyahatnâme (Book of Travels), draws the reader’s attention to certainnarratives by repeated recourse to specificnarrative genres. One such genre, which is important for appreciating Evliyâ ...

The critical studies on poetry in Turkish literature are quite inadequate. The lack of appreciating poetry in a critical manner is especially salient when it comes to the subject of “woman” poets. There are serious ...

This study examines the literary roles of material objects in nine Turkish novels and seeks to develop an original framework for analysing things. Theories of the novel still lack an analytical frame for the study of ...

In this dissertation, bringing into focus the relationship between the process of nation building and Turkish literature the mutual influence between the two is analyzed. Within this framework the following subjects are ...