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Adalet Ağaoğlu`nun Dar zamanlar üçlemesinde "kimlik" sorunsalı
(2005) Akkıyal, Berna
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 applied (to her novels?). The author principally based all her works of different genres-play, story and novel-upon the social experiences. Besides, she has not limited her works in a classical/convenient frame; she has been an explorer in the effect of employing fictional attributions and narration elements, and reflecting the time. She has preferred selecting characters inside (of) the social frame in all her novels, in which the identity questionings of characters who sort out with the society that call them into being and who tend to a new existential stage are well to the fore. In this thesis, the author’s Dar Zamanlar trilogy consisting of Lying Down to Die, A Wedding Party (1979) and No (1987) has been examined in the light of identity problematic. In the first chapter of the thesis named “Instant Reflecting History – Individual Experiencing (the) Instant”, narrative techniques and fictional attributions that are used in Dar Zamanlar trilogy are studied under different titles for each novel. In this chapter, it is concluded that identity problematic reveals per se while explaining the technical poperties, the author aimed at introducing characters and theme in a particular narrative feature, and the author ascertained the best technique to convey her material in the most suitable manner. The second chapter named “The Multilayer Structure of The Identity, The Multivocal Narrative Interpreting Society” is detached/reserved for the identity problematic. In this chapter, Ağaoğlu’s questioning of the concept of identity and her approach to the social evolution of the period are considered at length under the titles “citizen”, “intellectual”, “revolutionist” and “others”. In this chapter, the relation between the techniques Ağaoğlu made use of and the presentation of the characters are depicted from another aspect while the transformations of the characters pursued throughout three novels are examined. In Dar Zamanlar trilogy, Adalet Ağaoğlu wished/favoured to portray the social and political evolution of the period between 1938 and 1980s in view of the selfquestioning of the characters she chose among the intellectuals. Besides, it is observed that the diverse narrative features of the novels were derived from her quest for the most proper techniques to present her theme.
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Kemalettin Tuğcu romanları : özgün bir popüler edebiyat türü
(2005) Arlı, Melike Sıla
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 literature, many literary texts are incorrectly regarded as “non-literary” and some writers are excluded from the discourse of literature by referring to the counter-discourses on them. Being one of those writers, Kemalettin Tuğcu (1902-1996) and his popular novels are the main concern of this thesis. The thesis argues that the counter-discourse on Kemalettin Tuğcu has two dimensions: The first dimension is based on the popularity of Tuğcu’s novels. The second dimension relies on the close connection between the themes in the novels and “arabesk culture”. The thesis aims to analyze the counter-discourse against Kemalettin Tuğcu by focusing on the concept of popular literature. For that purpose, the concept of popular literature is defined and the novels of Kemalettin Tuğcu are regarded as examples of popular literature by focusing on the narrative structures in a sample of novels. Tuğcu’s novels, which had been regarded as “books for children” prior to this thesis, are re-defined as examples of young-adult literature by carefully relating popular literature to young-adult literature. It is also argued that there is an original genre in popular Turkish literature that consists of the novels of Kemalettin Tuğcu. The importance of the relationship between literature and society is emphasized in the thesis. That emphasis leads to pointing out to the themes and the narrative structure of Tuğcu’s novels, so that the “arabesk” themes are identified and analysed. The novels of Kemalettin Tuğcu are an important part of arabesk culture. On the other hand, the thesis offers an alternative approach by claiming that the novels may not be regarded as narratives of desperateness, but narratives of hope. These narratives completely fit into the resistant nature of popular literature.
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Reşat Nuri Güntekin'in romanlarında aşk ilişkileri
(2005) Aytemiz, Beyhan Uygun
This study focuses on the romantic novels of Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889-1956), who is generally acknowledged as a founding member of national Turkish literature. It investigates the following eight novels of the author in terms of the love relationships displayed in them: Harabelerin Çiçeği (The Flowers of Ruin, 1918), Gizli El (The Secret Hand, 1920), Çalıkuşu (The Wren, 1922), Damga (The Stigma, 1924), Dudaktan Kalbe (From Lips to Heart, 1925), Akşam Güneşi (The Sunset, 1926), Bir Kadın Düşmanı (A Misogynist, 1927), Eski Hastalık (The Old Pain, 1938), and Ateş Gecesi (Night of Fire, 1942). The thesis mainly examines the personal value system and the love relationships depicted in Güntekin’s novels through the perspectives of their narrators and protagonists. It is observed that these characters’ traits almost always gather around a typical narcissistic configuration. Güntekin is consistent in creating characters that are selfcentered, arrogant, and in need of constant admiration. Their lack of empathy towards almost all others in their environment emerges from their insecure childhood experiences and inadequate parental interactions. Such constructions of the self in the novels in turn shape the protagonists’ love and other interpersonal relations, as well as the representation of Anatolia, which is often described as a place of exile. However, important differences are also observed in the novels, especially in the representation of love as experienced by male and female characters. While the author’s male characters seem to be capable of love, his female characters are not. This results in the disunion of the potential lovers, a phenomenon transforming the traditional structure of the typical romantic novel.