M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Narratives of loss : Mai ve Siyah, Huzur and Tutunamayanlar 
    Doğan, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis draws upon a close-reading of Halid Ziya Usakligil's Mai ve Siyah (Blue and Black, 1897), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Huzur (A Mind at Peace, 1949) and Oğuz Atay's Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected, 1971) in terms ...
  • Kaygusuz Abdal's Mesnevi-i Baba Kaygusuz : critical edition and textual analysis 
    Oktay, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The aim of this thesis is to bring to light an unpublished mesnevi of Kaygusuz Abdal and to introduce a new approach to the reading of his works. For the critical edition of Mesnevî-i Baba Kaygusuz, all of the manuscripts ...
  • The representation of the disabled in Turkish children's literature (1969-2009) 
    Ünal, Ayfer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This pioneer study aims to investigate the representation of the disabled characters in 40 fictional narratives written for children during the period 1969-2009. The earliest date that a narrative with a disabled character ...
  • İhsan Oktay Anar'ın Amat romanında mitlerin işlevi 
    Uğurlu, Fırat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this thesis, I examine the novel Amat (2005) by İhsan Oktay Anar in the context of myth building. As the first stage of my examining, the myths as they are used within the novel and their original versions are compared ...
  • Representation of the non-Muslim Ottomans in modern Turkish drama (1874-1912) 
    Firidinoğlu, Nilgün. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis studies the forms of representation of the non-Muslim Ottomans in modern Turkish drama (1874-1912). Representations of the non-Muslims in Karagöz plays are primarily examined to show the reflection of the break ...
  • Bursalı Talib ve divanı: |tenkidli metin ve inceleme 
    Erdem, Melike. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
  • The problem of seeing in Feyyaz Kayacan's Short Fiction 
    Kaya, Nilay. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis analyzes the problem of seeing in the short stories of Feyyaz Kayacan from the 1950s to the 1980s. The transformation of various forms of visual perception at social and economic levels and especially the ...
  • Literary disco: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's intensive writing 
    Aydoğan, Yüce. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study focuses on the literary texts of Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil in terms of the concept of intensity. Intensity as the experience of the breakdown of any psychic, perceptive and-spatial order constitutes the descriptive ...
  • In search of the lost legend or ‘the missing’ in landscapes: nationalism, propaganda and ideology in Kuvâyi Milliye and Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları 
    Irmak, İ. Erkan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Kuvâyi Milliye and Memleketimden Đnsan Manzaraları are probably two of the most famous texts of Turkish Literature, both written by Nâzım Hikmet in Bursa prison during the 1940s. In addition to their literary quality, the ...
  • An analysis towards the Ghazals of Yaşar Nezihe 
    Çetin, Hande. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This dissertation study is about the poems in ghazal form by Yaşar Nezihe included in her books entitled with Bir Deste Menekşe and Feryadlarım. It is targeted to reveal connections of odes written in 19th century when ...
  • The reading of Muallime with the characteristics of sentimental novel 
    Sarı, Arzu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
  • Reading Tezer Özlü’s Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri and Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk novels as self narrated female bildungsroman 
    Mercan, Evşen. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Tezer Özlü is an effective figure in Turkish literature who writes short stories, novels, a scenario and makes translations between 1970-1980. Özlü’s literary works are constructed by some basic themes such as inner world ...
  • Alienation of the individual in Dar Zamanlar by Adalet Ağaoğlu 
    Şenol, Derya. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The thesis examines the alienation of the individual in Adalet Adaoğlu’s trilogy Dar Zamanlar, composed of Ölmeye Yatmak, Bir Düğün Gecesi and Hayır... respectively. Narrating the significant political developments and ...
  • Divan by Kefeli Mustafa Müdâmî 
    Kol, Nilüfer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The subject of this thesis is the Divan by Kefeli Mustafa Müdâmî, one of the sixteenth century Ottoman poets. The aim of this work is to determine and analyze the text by comparing the two manuscripts. The thesis basically ...
  • Subjectivity, language and narration in Leylâ Erbil’s short stories 
    Şentürk, Semiha. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study explores the subjectivity of characters in Leylâ Erbil's short stories and the construction of this subjectivity by the social ideology and its discourses through analyzing prominent literary genres and narration ...
  • Reshaping literature: the literary criticism of Ahmed Şuayb 
    Kurt, Çiğdem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis is a study of Ahmed Şuayb’s literary criticism from 1899 to 1901 during the Servet-i Fünûn period. It argues that literary criticism was one of the primary tools used to reshape modern Turkish literature during ...
  • Idleness in the Turkish novel (1875-1960) 
    Küçük, Deniz Aktan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This study focuses on the images of the idle, which is one of the new characters of the modern world, in modern Turkish literature texts throughout the modernization process considering the relationship between modernity ...
  • Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi'ndeki minyatürlü yazma eserlerin kataloğu 
    Seyhan, Nezihe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.)
    In this study, fifty-six manuscripts, which are kept in the Slileymaniye Library, illustrated with miniature paintings and bound altogether in fifty-four volumes, have been catalogued under the three headings of Turkish, ...
  • The existential subjectivity in the short stories of Ferit Edgü and Demir Özlü 
    İş, Ayşe Öykü. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This study examines the reflections of existentialism, which has its roots in Western philosophy and literature, in Ferit Edgü and Demir Özlü’s early stories. The study takes Ferit Edgü’s collection of stories entitled ...
  • Divan by Fevzi - 17th century text-structural and contential analysis 
    Doğramacı, Nilgün. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Bu tezin konusu 17. yüzyıl sairlerinden Fevzî’nin Dîvânı’dır. Amacı Fevzî Dîvânı metnini dogru bir biçimde tespit ettikten sonra metin üzerinde biçim ve içerik açısından bir inceleme yapmaktır. Bu hedef dogrultusunda ...

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