dc.contributor.advisor | Kalpaklı, Mehmet | |
dc.contributor.author | Demirkol, Neslihan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-03T13:17:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-03T13:17:37Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2015-10 | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-10 | |
dc.date.submitted | 13-11-2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/29047 | |
dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-223). | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.): Bilkent University, Department of Turkish Literature, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2015. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This study reconsiders the modernization of Ottoman literature from the
second half of the nineteenth century through the historical lens of literary translations.
While it may seem unorthodox to think of translated works as a part of national
literature, it may be necessary to re-asses the initiatory role of translation for the
Ottoman literature from a new perspective. The discourse of literary history that
considers translation as both the indispensable and obligatory result of the process of,
and means for, “proper” modernization has been used without any criticism since the
1900s. In addition, despite their contributions, recent research in the field of translation
studies, as influenced by cultural studies methodologies, continue to reproduce the same
old discourse about the preliminary conditions of literary translations as they are mainly
based on these literary histories. However, Ottoman modernization has been scrutinized
and reformulated in the fields of history and cultural studies. Following these studies
and Pierre Bourdieu’s research methodology on the field of cultural production, I deal
with literary translations within the cultural, social and economic context of the era and
their reshaping of the literary publishing market. This study argues that, due to the effect
of the centralization movement, education textbooks gained importance and became a
crucial means of profit and prestige, thus financially supporting the bloom of private
printing houses. In addition, the spread and modernization of public education not only
caused an increase in the number of readers but also provided a surplus of qualified
manpower; in other words, it engendered a new type of translator ready to sell his/her
labor for the publishing market. While it is well known that censorship on political
activities and publications indirectly paved the way for literary and scientific translation
and publishing activities, it also drastically limited the list of pieces to be translated. It
seems that censorship together with the tough economic conditions left
publisher/printers no choice but to be on good terms with the Ottoman palace so as to
survive financially. Moreover, it appears that the palace supported and led the
publishing activities more efficiently than what we have believed up until now. In short,
this study claims that the literary translations of the last quarter of the nineteenth
century were a natural outcome of a modernized printing market and power relations
network, rather than a not so much adopted, obligatory phase of modernity. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Neslihan Demirkol. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | xii, 324 leaves : charts. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Translation history | en_US |
dc.subject | Literary history | en_US |
dc.subject | Education, censorship | en_US |
dc.subject | Printing press | en_US |
dc.subject | Patronage | en_US |
dc.subject | Pierre Bourdieu | en_US |
dc.subject | Field of cultural production | en_US |
dc.title | The reshaping of the literary publishing fieldand emergence of the literary translation market between 1850 and 1900 | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | 1850-1900 yılları arasında edebiyat yayıncılığı alanının yeniden biçimlenmesi ve edebiyat çevirileri piyasasının doğuşu | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.department | Department of Turkish Literature | en_US |
dc.publisher | Bilkent University | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.identifier.itemid | B119470 | |
dc.embargo.release | 2017-11-14 | |