There is a general consensus among Ottoman literary scholars that Divan poetry does not give us the “description” of real “nature” and daily life. This point of view relies on the assumption that Divan poets could only ...

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 ...

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889-1974), best known by his novels published in the Republican era, started his career as an author in different genres of literature in the years following the Second Constitutional period. ...

Behçet Necatigil (1916-1979), one of few poets of Turkish poetry who could not directly be connected to a literary school or generation, is called as the “poet of homes” by some critics. This conception is partly related ...

Oğuz Atay, who is considered one of the pioneers of modern Turkish literature, utilized the notion of “play” quite frequently in his works. Several of his characters consider playing to be a manner of living, putting ...

Mithat Efendi (1844-1912) and Beşir Fuat (1852-1887) by focusing on their articles and letters on the subject. It is usual to study the development of realism in Turkish literature by only taking the novels into account. ...

In this study, entitled “Reflections of Collective Memory in Turkish Literature”, I argue that literary texts, specifically narratives, can function as a means of collective memory, and I take up the task of explaining ...

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 ...

Bu tez, 1894-1934 yılları arasında evrimi konu edinmiş kurmaca metinlere odaklanmaktadır. Kırk sene zarfında yazılmış toplamda beş ana metin üzerinden Osmanlı modernleşmesini tekâmül, terakki, taklit kavramları ve insan-hayvan, ...

Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar was one of the rare writers of Republican period who kept alive the old sense of literature and traditional esthetics in his literary works. He become recognized in the 1930s which was a period ...