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 explores European women characters in selected works of Ahmet Mithat Efendi (1844-1912) and İsmail Gaspıralı (1851-1914). This particular focus allows the reader to revise some major claims and generalisations ...

In this study, the works Letaif-i Rivayat by Ahmet Mithat (1844-1912), Müsameretname by Emin Nihat (?), Küçük Şeyler by Samipaşazade Sezai (1860- 1936), and Karabibik by Nabizâde Nazım (1862-1893), which all have a number ...

This thesis deals with the functioning of the formal and stylistical devices in Nâzım Hikmet’s “novelized” poems, Jokond ile Sİ-YA-U (1929), Benerci Kendini Niçin Öldürdü? (1932) and Taranta-Babu’ya Mektuplar (1935), in ...

This thesis investigates the conceptions of love and the descriptions of the beloved in the poetries of Nazim Hikmet and Cegerxwin, two socialist poets of Turkish and Kurdish languages respectively, with a particular ...

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 ...

Literary histories are seen to have confined their horizon of Ottoman poetry of the 19th century, a century marked by the revolutionary changes in literature, mainly to the post-Tanzimat period, where the process ...