The Tıflî stories are a group of works consisting of prose stories mostly printed in nineteenth-century Istanbul. The main contention of this study, entitled “The Generic Development of the Tıflî Stories”, is that the ...

Nazlı Eray (b. 1945) is the author of more than twenty works, including short stories, novels, and memoirs. Although Eray has been known as one of the pioneers of fantasy fiction in Turkish literature, autobiographical elements ...

Popular romances of the Republican Period, which are ignored while discussing the reverberations of the period of national construction, are deemed to be the texts relating the civic interpretation of the Kemalist ...

Adalet Ağaoğlu, since she published her first novel Lying Down to Die in 1973, has been one of the leading names of Turkish Literature thanks to her approach to the social developments and the narrative features she has ...

In 1970 Turgut Uyar, one of the leading members of the poetry movement known as the “second new”, published a collection of poems entitled Divan. This collection differs from his other works in that it contains poems in ...

Popular literature is not a widely accepted category in Turkish literary criticism. This is because the discourse of high literature is often perceived as the “Literature” itself. According to that misconception of ...

The subject matter of this thesis is Türklerin Sherlock Holmes’ü Amanvermez Avni, a series of ten detective stories by Ebussureyya Sami which were published between the years 1913-1914. It is the first of the series of ...

Şukûfe Nihal (1896-1973) published her works in an era of ongoing significant social changes during Turkey’s modernization period (1919-1960). She took active role in many women’s societies as the “new woman” of the ...

Halide Edib Adıvar (1882-1964) who has produced literary works in nearly all kinds of narrative styles has dealt with the daily life of İstanbul primarily in her short stories and novels but also her articles published ...

The poetic transformation, which Oktay Rifat (1914-1988) has experienced since his titled Perçemli Sokak (1956), corresponds to a process moving from “language” towards “perception”. After this work Rifat used the “sun” ...