Browsing by Subject "ideology"

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Bir ideoloji olarak Murathan Mungan şiiri
(2002) Caner, Fırat
Poetry of Murathan Mungan as an Ideology Murathan Mungan (b. 1955), interprets “the ideological context of daily details” as one of the main themes of his literary works. There is an attempt of finding and manipulating what is always valid in the relationship he built with the Tradition. He pursues not the “past” in today, but the “today” in the past, because, the “today” in the past is the most convenient material for him to settle with his past. Mungan deals with the themes relating to Human Evolution and tries to make his readers confront themselves. He makes his readers confront themselves through criticisms which are direct at times and subtle at others. Mungan successfully deals with the issues concerning the imposition of political, economic and social formations to individuals and the psychology concerning how individuals absorb these. That is why the main topic of Mungan’s works is the crisis of the transition period between “not being able to be oneself” and “encountering the tragedy of not being able to”. Not being able to be oneself means dependence on an “other” and this will cause the individual to accept the role that has been imposed on oneself. The poetics of Mungan stands between the modern and the traditional, but closer to the traditional. But, beyond its “definite” status, the most important status for Mungan’s works is the status between two states of being. The threshold is very important in Mungan’s works, as it is in Chekhov’s.
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Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar'ın romanlarında ahlak sorunsalı
(2007) Serdar, Ali
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s (1864-1944) first article titled “İstanbul’da Bir Frenk” (A European in Istanbul) was published in 1884 and from that time onwards his 41 novels, 9 story books, 4 plays, and 6 collection of essays composed of his articles and polemics have been published. In this study, Gürpınar’s ten novels, namely Bir Sevda Denklemi (An Equation of Love, 1899), Metres (The Mistress, 1899), Acı Gülüş (Bitter Laugh, 1923), Ben Deli miyim? (Am I Mad? 1925), Kokotlar Mektebi (The School of Cocottes, 1929), Gönül Bir Yeldeğirmenidir (The Heart is a Windmill, 1943), Dünyanın Mihveri Kadın mı, Para mı? (What Is the Axis of the World, Woman or Money? 1949), Kaderin Cilvesi (Turn of Fortune, 1964), Can Pazarı (A Matter of Life and Death, 1968), and Namuslu Kokotlar (The Virtuous Cocottes, 1973) have been analyzed within the framework of ethical criticism, especially with regard to the repeated themes, the interference of the author and the narrator, and the intellectual sources of Gürpınar’s thought. Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar had adopted a moral discourse in his writings and created his fictional world around the themes of struggle for existence, starvation, moral decline, and infidelity, which are among significant notions in the field of ethics. The intrusion of the author and the narrator in fictional worlds are other salient and constitutive features of Gürpınar’s fiction. Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and social Darwinist ideas, to which he had frequently referred, also played substantial roles in the formation of his fictional world. That is why it is vital to understand the system of values that lies beneath the author’s thought while analyzing his works. In this context, the criticisms regarding Gürpınar’s idea of the novel have been reconsidered; his works have been examined from the perspective of ethical criticism; and the system of values that shape his fictional world has been portrayed through a text-centered reading.
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Türkçe şiirde lirik ve ideoloji okumaları ve Marksist bir ara konum : Niyazi Akıncıoğlu
(2013) Sezen, Güneş
In this thesis, the relationship between lyric poetry and society put forward theoretically by Adorno has been approached in relation with Eagleton’s layered ideology, and a sampling study which focuses especially on Turkish modern poetry has been attempted to be conducted. The samplings made with the emphasis, contrary to the reception until today of lyric poetry, that lyric poetry does not allude only to a subjective and individual poem, but makes references subjectively to society and thus different ideological layers, have revealed various outcomes for each of the poets discuused. It has been discovered that, especially during times of escalated social and political change and/or oppression, poetry tends to at first alternate between going rhetorical through increased volume or going through a lyric silence, and that this situation leads in Turkish poetry to various presentations somewhere between these two dominant types. The perception of environment and life developed around the axis of dream and reality by Cenab Şahabettin and Tevfik Fikret in the pre-modern period, has been used during the modern period after going through some changes. Symbols have been observed to make references in Ahmet Hâşim’s lyric poems to an imaginary place and time, and in yahya Kemal’s, in accordance with the longing for the old culture and aesthetics, to historical places. Even though, the use of religious and mystical metaphors in Asaf Hâlet’s poems has been considered to be a means rather than an end, the fact that such metaphors have been the choice has been deemed significant. Betçet Necatigil has been read with the view that oppression, modernization and urbanization has depicted a micro-universe to the poetry and life of a poet hanging in the balance; in which he has taken refuge. In Nâzım Hikmet and Niyazi Akıncıoğlu’s poems, structures have been observed that have been constructed outside the frame of mind and poetic horizon of two poets—one socialist realist and the other, Marxist. It has been emphasized that the former, in terms of female discourse, has used a patriarchal unconscious discourse in some of his poems; while it has been observed through the poems of the latter that he has digressed from realistic discourse with the attempt to create an epic and abstract universe and poetry. All the sampling in this study has been an attempt to put forward an approach to lyric poetry which is divergent from the points of view exhibited until now.
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Who represents women in turkey? An analysis of gender difference in private bill sponsorship in the 2011–15 Turkish parliament
(Cambridge University Press, 2018) Bektas, E.; Issever-Ekinci, E.
In this study, we examine substantive representation of women in the 2011-15 Turkish Parliament by focusing on sponsorship of private members' bills by members of parliament (MPs) across eight major issue areas. The Turkish case offers new insights into women's representation, not only because this topic is unexplored in the Turkish context but also because it provides an opportunity to examine the tension between gender as a social identity and ideology as a political identity in a legislature characterized by disciplined political parties and low gender parity. Findings indicate that women MPs in Turkey substantively represent women by sponsoring more bills on women's rights and equality issues than their male colleagues, despite their low numbers in parliament and affiliation with highly disciplined parties. Party ideology also shapes women MPs' issue priorities depending on the emphasis placed by the parties on different issue areas. Whereas left-wing women MPs sponsor more bills on women's rights and equality issues defined with a feminist accent, right-wing women MPs sponsor more bills on issues regarding children and family. Left-wing women also differ significantly from right-wing women in their sponsorship of bills on health and social affairs issues, as left-wing parties prioritize those issues more than right-wing parties. Copyright