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Bilge Karasu'nun Gece'sine metin ve okur odaklı bir yaklaşım
(2003) Özata, Jale
Bilge Karasu (1930-1995), a prominent figure in Turkish literature, reached readers with his first novel Night (1985) after his exquisite short story books such as Troya’da Ölüm Vardı (1963), Uzun Sürmüş Bir Günün Akşamı (1970) and Göçmüş Kediler Bahçesi (1979). Night, which occupies a special place in the contemporary Turkish literature and among the author’s other works, was awarded the Pegasus Prize in 1991, but it has not been sufficiently studied and criticized until then. Because of its multi-layered structure, its style of handling the text-author-reader interaction, and its dissimilarity to traditional novels, the text has been labeled as “hard”. In this thesis, we carefully analyze in detail the “meta-fiction” and “fiction” frames in Night, as well as the connections between them, a task not undertaken earlier. We observe that because it interferes with the characters’ discourse, the discourse of the writer, which manifests itself at the meta-fiction level at the beginning of the text, becomes fictionalized and loses its authority. By means of handling the form and the content simultaneously, we also attempt to explain, how the reader is ushered into the text and how s/he is characterized there. The purpose of this thesis is not to present a definitive interpretation of the text, but to reveal its pattern of plural meanings within the framework of the writer-reader interaction. At the end of the thesis, we observe that the darkness, which has risen constantly in the first, second, and third sections of the text, has left itself to “night” at the last section. We understand that Night has a fictitious writer who produces a meta-discourse as he fictionalizes, and in the end, it breaks into pieces like a mirror fallen on the ground. The last words of the text, reveals and fictionalizes the “author” who sets up this “breaking into pieces”. This “author” employs the same techniques on his readers, which the “oppressors” narrated in the text use on others in order to pacify them. Therefore, the reader becomes a character of the text.
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Nazlı Eray'ın yapıtlarında (oto)biyografik ögeler
(2005) Çetaku, Drita
Nazlı Eray (b. 1945) is the author of more than twenty works, including short stories, novels, and memoirs. Although Eray has been known as one of the pioneers of fantasy fiction in Turkish literature, autobiographical elements constitute an important part of her works. In this thesis entitled “Aspects of (Auto)biography in Nazlı Eray’s Works” the author’s twenty three works are analyzed in order to determine the role of biographical and autobiographical elements in the formation of her original literary style. The first chapter of the thesis entitled “Autobiographical Themes in Nazlı Eray’s Works” is based mainly upon the novels Aşkı Giyinen Adam (A Man Wearing Love) and Deniz Kenarında Pazarfes/(Monday on the Seashore), which are used as sources of autobiographical information concerning the writer’s years of childhood and adolescence in Istanbul. In this respect, the other books are used as supplementary texts. As far as the writer’s years in Ankara are concerned, the autobiographical elements in her works are gathered by focusing on the recurring themes in the books. In this chapter, in addition to the writer’s works, her interviews are also used. The second chapter of the thesis entitled “Biographical Themes in Nazlı Eray’s Works” focuses on biographical influences in Eray’s works, especially her relationships with her relatives and certain celebrities. In the chapter entitled “Autofiction in Nazlı Eray’s Works” the author’s works are analyzed in terms of “autofiction”, a literary style that consists of blending fiction and autobiography. Nazlı Eray, who combines several aspects of her real life experiences with elements of fantasy in her works, has been writing “autofiction” from the very beginning. The writer, who has been pushing the limits of biography and autobiography as literary genres, has developed her distinct literary style, thus gaining a wide audience.
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Tahta atın günümüzde yaşadıkları
(1993) Ertop, Konur