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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As an example of the influence of ‘Ali Shîr Navâ’î (d.1501), who is the most renowned poet of Chagatai literature and whom the era during which he lived is named after, on Ottoman literature, the masnavi of Ferhâd u Şîrîn ...

This thesis uses the narratological method to examine the thirteen stories of Bilge Karasu‟s collection The Garden of Departed Cats. In the analysis of the stories, the spatial dimension of the narrative has been especially ...

Bu tez, 1923 ila 1946 arası yani Cumhuriyet’in kuruluşundan çok partili hayata geçiş dönemine kadar yazılmış tarihî romanların niteliksel ve niceliksel olarak incelenmesinden oluşmaktadır. Bu dönemde yazılan tarihî romanlar ...

This thesis is about the re-formation of folk narrative motifs in Behcet Necatigil’s poetry, famous for continuing the written and oral tradition, and is also about what happens in this process of intertextuality. Firstly, ...

Mehmed II, also known as Mehmed the Conqueror, is acknowledged as the founder of the Ottoman Empire and the initiator of what is referred as the “Ottoman Sultan” in many prominent works (İnalcık’s et al.) conducted on ...

This study is an attempt to analyse the rhetorical argumentation style in the last quarter of the 19th century with consideration to influences on the literary style of the period. Studies on rhetoric more often than not ...