Browsing by Subject "Melancholy"

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Ahmet Hâşim şiirlerinde zaman
(2010) Kocabay, Hatice
Poet and prose writer Ahmet Hâşim (1884-1933), a unique contributor to Modern Turkish Literature, penned down various great works. Although significant amount of scholarly research in the form of memoir and survey has been conducted on his life and unconventional individuality, little work has been done on his poetry. The works of Hâşim are usually associated with symbolism and impressionism. Indeed, most of the work done on his poetry also limit themselves with a similar deduction that his poems are either “symbolist” or “impressionist”. The lack of any profound analysis on how these two movements affected Hâşim’s poetry in the realm of language or what were their contributions to the content in terms of themes has led to a critical blockage. Although in his works he explains his poetics as “poems composed not to be understood but to be heard”, he has still succeeded to preserve his place in the realm of literary criticism as the composer of inconceivable poems. This work aims at analysing the matter of Time in Hâşim’s poetry and attempts to argue what has not been argued so far. It can be considered as a new step in the context of the interpretation of Hâşim’s poetry. Depending on the effects of symbolism and impressionism, two distinct concepts of time prevail in the poetry of Ahmet Hâşim. In symbolist poems the understanding of time is subjective, synchronic and immeasurable whereas in impressionist poems it is objective, measurable and progressive. In symbolist poems, through uncompleted meanings and a wide range of connotations of symbols, “Cyclical Time” is referred. Thus, the theoretical background of the thesis entails some explanation on the key concepts of Bergson’s philosophy of time such as “Durée” and “Memory”. In impressionist poems it can be observed that there are certain sections in which linear time is attempted to be frozen in one frame through the depiction of images and a cinematographic narration. Image as a visual element is a component in these poems with the notion of linear time. The place of image in language plane and its effect on the composition of themes will be analyzed in the context of time.
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Mai ve Siyah romanının melankoli izleği ve yaratıcılık bağlamında incelemesi
(2020-12) Ermez, Uğur
Bu çalışma, Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil’in kaleme aldığı, Türkiye Edebiyatı’nda ilk modern roman olarak sınıflandırılan Mai ve Siyah’ı melankoli, yaratıcılık ve kötülük kavramları açısından incelemeyi hedefler. Melankoli bahsinde, Mai ve Siyah’ta yer alan melankolik unsurlar ve semboller ele alınacaktır. Burada Julia Kristeva’nın Narsisistik Melankoli kavramı teorik alt yapıyı oluşturacaktır. Yaratıcılık bahsinde, Mai ve Siyah’ı kendinden önceki romanlardan ayıran unsurlar incelenecektir. Mai ve Siyah’ın Türkiye romanına dil, biçim ve içerik açısından getirdiği yenilikler geleneksel yaratıcılık ve modern yaratıcılık arasındaki farklara ve metinlerarasılığa değinilerek melankoli bağlamında ortaya konacaktır. Kristeva’nın, narsisistik melankoli ve yaratıcılık arasında kurduğu bağlantı teorik çerçeveyi oluşturacaktır. Kötülük bahsinde ise Kristeva’nın abject kavramsallaştırmasının sağlayacağı teorik arka planla beraber romandaki kötü karakterler yakın okuma tekniği kullanılarak incelenecek, kötü karakterlerin Türkiye romanında kötülüğe getirdiği yeni soluk ortaya konmaya çalışılacaktır.
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The majzubs and majnuns in the ottoman state: A glance into the ottoman hospitals and madness in the early modern period
(Milli Folklor Dergisi, 2016) Kurtuluş, Meriç
The Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi is a polyphonic narrative in which different genres such as biography, fiction and history intertwine with each other. Evliya’s Seyahatnâme, which encompasses a large spectrum of subject matter and world-wide geography, is a significant source for researchers coming from different academic disciplines. In this article it was dwelled on how hospitals were depicted and the issue of madness was reflected in Seyahatnâme. The article mainly centered on chapters depicting the hospitals in Edirne and Egypt. In the first part of the article the lexical meanings of bîmârhâne, bîmâristân and tîmârhâne have been discussed and it has been briefly touched on the architectural structure of the Ottoman hospital and the method of its management. It is aimed to discover the differences between the Ottoman hospitals and modern hospitals and demonstrate that the differences between these medical institutions actually depend on the difference of mentality. Indeed the pre-modern Ottoman mentality, which bears the traces of the medieval worldview, didn’t define madness with a marginalised point of view unlike the Western modernity. The early modern hospitals were built at the center of the city, which was another sign of the symbiotic lifestyle of the Ottoman society. In the last two parts of the article it is analysed how madness was depicted and defined in the Seyahatnâme. Therefore, the works of Michael Dols and Eyüp Öztürk and the biographical anthology of Enfî Hasan Hulûs Halvetî was benefited as theoretical and informative sources. Furthermore, some of the mystics introduced in the anthology of Enfî Hasan Ağa have been found in Seyahatnâme, as well. Finally, it is revealed that Evliya divided madmen into two groups as melancholic people (majnun) and mystic majzubs in his Book of Travels. In other words, it is understood that both lyric and sufistic meanings have been attributed to madness in Seyahatnâme.
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Subjectivizing children: melancholy in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Peter and Wendy
(2023-08) Doğan, Şule Nur
This thesis is concerned with the subjectivation of children in children’s literature and film, and the melancholy caused to child characters as they are forced down a path of growing up as conceived by adults. Engaged in a close reading of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Peter and Wendy (1911), as well as their select film adaptations Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Return to Never Land (2002), Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010), and finally Peter Pan and Wendy (2023), the thesis is also committed to a discourse analysis of the concepts of childhood and growing up. As the thesis is concerned with works occupying a timeframe of over a century, the shifts in Western children’s literature and film, as well as their introduction into the Disney machinery is also considered. Approaching this multitude of attitudes towards how child characters relate to adulthood and growing up, the thesis connects this issue in relation to the dynamic between the Western colonizer and the colonized subjects, as the former desubjectivizes the latter in a similar dynamic to the one between adults and children.