M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Malevolent-children in modern Turkish short story 
    Abanoz, Süheyla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    “Evil” is considered to be an equivalent word for “virtueless” that is a meaningful form in society and defined by the words "bad, wicked, awful" etc. When this lack of virtue, which is often brought up by the humanities, ...
  • Ahmed Bin Hüseyin El-Giridî's Risâletü'l-Kavsiye :|a transcription and textual analysis 
    Erçin, Zekiye Şeyma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The subject of this thesis is Risâletü’l Kavsiye which consists of thirty-eight leafs written by Ahmed Al-Giridî as prose in the eighteenth century. The aim of the study is to make the work accessible by transcription, ...
  • Seriality, influence and adaptation in Ahmet Mithat's novels Hasan Mellâh and Zeyl-i Hasan Mellâh 
    Topçuoğlu, Arif Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The first examples of the novel in Turkish literature were given in the middle of the nineteenth century, in the form of serial. During this period, Ottoman intellectuals introduced this genre to the readers via translations ...
  • Messianic hopes in Oğuz Atay’s works :|representations of Jesus in Tutunamayanlar and “Beyaz Mantolu Adam” 
    Kaplan, Yasir İslam. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The image and the life story of Jesus narrated in the Scriptures has put into literary form faithfully or with varying degrees of transformation throughout the ages by authors of various literatures, each with differing ...
  • From historical figure to literary character :|representation of religious woman figures in literary texts 
    Aykurt Orakçı, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, I will dwell on how female figures who are prominent with their religious representation and have historicity were constructed and the role of the author’s ideology and biography, the genre of the text and ...
  • Historicising the novel :|Madonna in a Fur Coat as a literary event 
    İnce, Meryem Selva. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Madonna in a Fur Coat novel is an exceptional literary event. It is accepted as a literary document and gained an aesthetic value by getting popular in time through the appreciation of ordinary readers, even though it ...
  • Style in the divans of Âdile Sultan and Tevhîde Hanım 
    Atasoy, Ümran. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The subject of this thesis is to compare two female divan poets who are Âdile Sultan and Tevhîde Hanım lived in the nineteenth century. In addition to being female poets lived in the same century, being able to write ...
  • Embedded narratives and the chronotope concept in Ahmet Metin ve Şirzat 
    Kahraman, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Ahmet Mithat Efendi (1844-1912) one year after he published his travel narrative in 1889, Avrupa’da Bir Cavelan (2015), he began serializing Ahmet Metin ve Şirzat (2015) in 1891. Avrupa’da Bir Cevelan, the work of Ahmet ...
  • Wine and wine-related elements of Bâkî, Fuzûlî, Hayâlî and Yahyâ Bey’s divans 
    Yıldırım, Hayrettin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Wine and wine related elements are frequently used in divan literature. This study aims to analyse wine and wine related elements by using Bâkî, Fuzûlî, Hayâlî and Yahyâ Bey’s divans. The verses quoted from the poets are ...
  • Kava id-i Teshirat by İbn-i İsa:|An analysis and transcription 
    Kaçar, Engin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis mentions about a different aspect of dîvân poetry that was studied in many workings so far. Dîvân poetry is a literary tradition that is mostly discussed in poem-centered workings. Based on the text named ...
  • 16. yüzyılda bir nazire şairi Sebzi ve nazireleri 
    Karataş, İbrahim Hakan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institue of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
  • Evil in Yusuf Atılgan’s fiction 
    Armağan, Hatice Kübra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In Yusuf Atılgan’s fiction, the theme of evil emerges as an independent, self regulated and purposeful category. Departing from the established morality, tradition and laws of social contract, Atılgan’s fiction generates ...
  • Beyond unity, between duality :|a queer perspective on Venüs as a hybrid construct 
    Topal, İbrahim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis, based on Şebnem İşigüzel's book Venüs, rebuilds itself as a hybrid form in terms of genre as well as fiction; and how it positions its in relation to concepts of standardisation and absoluteness. Venüs is a ...
  • A queer deviance in Turkish detective fiction:|The Hop-Çiki-Yaya series by Mehmet Murat Somer 
    Yüce, Cüneyt. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Detective fiction has often been labeled as the “stepchild of literature” or “cheap literature” by literary critics and it also has been looked down on by being considered as an “escapist fiction”. However, funnily enough, ...
  • A response to the demand for modern narrative:|Sergüzeşt-i Kalyopi 
    Doğan, Abdullah. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    T. Abdi is an important author who published four novels between 1873 and 1875 that are the date of appearing of Ottoman novels. There is no accurate information about who is T. Abdi in history of literature. There were ...
  • The Relationship between historical documents and fiction in Attila İlhan's Aynanın İçindekiler series of novels 
    Vançin, İrem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Literature is considered as a different area from history according to its relation with reality, because history objectively examines the past events through the information obtained. Therefore, according to classical ...
  • Textual network in Sevim Burak:|The nonhuman beings of Ford Mach I 
    Kutup, Selver Sezen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis proposes to consider Sevim Burak’s Ford Mach I as a textual network or a network-text. The collective creation process of Ford Mach I is one of the elements that make a textual network possible. There are ...
  • Safahat as a “Serial Novel” 
    Soytürk, Remzi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The novels, whose first examples were seen in the 19th century, as stated by other literary theorists, especially Mikhail Bakhtin, became the dominant genre and likened the other genres to itself. The first examples of ...
  • The construction of the self in Nigâr Hanım’s diaries:|Writing the female subject in the late Ottoman period 
    Koç, Hüsniye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Nigâr binti Osman (1862-1918) is one of the most important women writers who contributed to the social and cultural change in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century with her works and intellectual personality. Nigâr ...
  • An Ottoman miscellany compiled in the eighteenth century (Textual analysis, transcription and comparative text) 
    Esen, Abdullah. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The Ottoman miscellany examined in this thesis was borrowed from Prof. Ismail Erunsal’s personal collection. The first goal of this study was to make the Miscellany accessible to researchers by transcribing the text after ...

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