Latîfî'nin eleştirel perspektifinden Osmanlı divan şiirinin poetikası
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Kalpaklı, MehmetDate
2009Publisher
Bilkent University
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English
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Abstract
As one of the well-known figures of the Ottoman literature of tezkire
genre – the collection of biographies – Latifi (1491-1582) is a distinctive
scholar with his eccentric discourse in his masterpiece Tezkiretü’ş-Şu’arâ
(1546). The tezkire writer projected a critical view of the Ottoman poetry
through the discourse he created in his tezkire, as well as the canon he set
down, to a great extent, demonstrated the general progress of the art of
poetry. Questioning the literary critique on the basis of Latifi’s tezkire, this
thesis aims to show the attributed mean to his critical manner in the traditoin.
Being aware of that the Ottoman literary critique has no equalent in the
modern critical theories the thesis attempts to explicate the critical discourse
in the tezkire in the limits of the tradition and rhetoric. In this context, in the
first chapter titled “Tezkiretü’ş-Şu’arâ and Critique in the Ottoman Literature”,
the essence of the critique in the tezkire and its place on the line of the
tradition are discussed; and Latifi’s genuineness within the tezkire tradition is
appraised. Furthermore, the writer’s famous classification of poets is
explicated in the context of rhetoric, and the precision of attributing
genuineness to the writer of the tezkire merely within the bounds of this
classification is questioned. In the subchapters entitled “The Poet” and “The
Poetry” of the second chapter “The Ideal Type of Poet Reflected from Latifi’s
Critical Perspective and a Look to the Art of Poetry” the platforms of criticism
are scrutinized. Within the frame of these platforms, the ideal type of poet
and poetry reflected in the critical expression of Latifi is discussed, and the
poetic discourse presented in the tezkire is stated.