Helvacıoğlu, Banu2018-04-122018-04-1220130027-1276http://hdl.handle.net/11693/38034This essay examines melancholy/hüzün in three overlapping contexts: as a historical condition of modernity, in aesthetic production, and as a cultural condition. In Pamuk's writing, melancholizing becomes a creative deviceto explore European and Islamic influences on historical and aesthetic connotations of hüzün that the city holds in its essence.EnglishReview