M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • From Servet-i Fünûn to “World” literature: The mapping of Mehmet Rauf’s literary criticism 
    Damak, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis critically discusses Mehmet Rauf’s articles on literary criticism published in the journal Servet-i Fünûn (Wealth of Sciences) between 1896 and 1901. It focuses primarily on how he used literary criticism to ...
  • Traumatic poetics: Witnessing and its horizons in Leylâ Erbil’s last texts 
    Çalışkan, Uğur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis, centered upon the examination of the traumatic discourse and its ethical, political, and cultural constructions in Leylâ Erbil’s Üç Başlı Ejderha (2005), Kalan (2011), and Tuhaf Bir Erkek (2011) reveals that ...
  • Bir edebi değişimi A Dergisi ile okumak 
    Altuğ, Fatih, 1977- (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This study offers a critical analysis of a literary journal, A, of the 1950s in Turkey, in order to show how discussions with this journal reflect a transformation from social oriented literary understanding to an abstract ...
  • The literary representation of the non-human: An ecocritical approach to Yere düşen dualar and Yeryüzü halleri 
    Hamzaçebi, Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In the days of alarming ecological crisis, where does literature stand in the struggle while the other disciplines take actions in various ways? Can we talk about a literary text which is “ecologically sensitive”? What ...
  • Nineteenth-century poet Süleyman Fehim Efendi’s divan: Analysis, transcription, and index 
    Torun, Elvan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The subject of this thesis is the Dîvân, by Süleymân Fehîm Efendi, one of the poets who lived in 19th century. The main aim of this study is to give information about Süleymân Fehîm Efendi’s life and literary personality ...
  • Modern Turkish literary biography: A study of Beşir Fuat’s biographies of Victor Hugo and Voltaire 
    Karabaşoğlu, İsa İlkay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2018.)
    The nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire is an exciting and revolutionary period for researchers working on this era and it was a turbulent, revolutionary, and giddy time for its residents. The same is true for biographical ...
  • Writing as a space: metadiegetic narratives in Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent and Romantik Bir Viyana Yazı 
    Öztürk, Zehra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In this thesis study, through analysing Aslı Erdoğan’s novel Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent and Adalet Ağaoğlu’s novel Romantik Bir Viyana Yazı, I would like to assert the idea that “writing” provides a space to the characters ...
  • A transcription and textual analysis of Medhiye-i Ali Paşa ve Gencîne-i Pür-Temâşâ 
    Bursalı, Meryem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The subject of this thesis is Medhiye-i Ali Paşa ve Gencîne-i Pür-Temâşâ, written by Şâzî in 1619 to praise Sultan Osman’s grand vizier Ali Pasha, who is known as İstanköylü, Çelebi and Güzelce. Şâzî’s work contains literary ...
  • İnsan Meddiicezri: A thesis novel Hilmi Ziya Ülken's world of thought 
    Cankılıç İlhan, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis embraces Hilmi Ziya Ulken's two novels of a roman-fleuve series published under the title of jnsan Meddiicezri, written in the 30s and 40s; Yarzm Adam was serialized in 1936 and published in 1943 as a novel, ...
  • Feyzî-i Kefevî’s Ravżatü’l-ʻİbād textual analysis and transcribed text 
    Altuntaş, Resul. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this study, the main focus is Ravzatü’l-‘İbâd, which is a forty-hadith translation made by Haydar-zâde Feyzî-i Kefevî in the seventeenth century. It consists of the transcribed text of Ravzatü’l-‘İbâd, which was written ...
  • The periphery of national literature from the second constitution to the Turkish national movement: The case of the Kastamonu province 
    Dinler, Hümeyra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis examines the period known as national literature in Turkish literary studies by focusing on the literal, cultural, intellectual products published in the Kastamonu province of the Ottoman Empire between 1911 ...
  • Hegemonic masculinity in Murathan Mungan’s stories: Disclosure and destruction 
    Arslan, Ahmet Duran. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this study, I basically try to contribute to discussions related to gender and critical masculinity studies by means of the literary texts. In this context, I follow the concept of hegemonic masculinity developed by ...
  • Education theme in the Tanzimat novel 
    Atan Polat, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institue of Social Sciences, 2000., 2000.)
    When Tanzimat period novel is analyzed, it is seen that, in the novels which have been written in order to educate people, main characters are identified with the public, therefore, the process of education of the main ...
  • A transcription and examination of the Millet Manuscript Library’s Mecmu’a-ı Eş’ar ve Gazeliyyat number Aemnz587 
    Güler, Gökhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    There are some works in Ottoman poetry those have only very little information about themselves (such as the compositor, the year of composition, copy-record) but when we examine them, the works themselves still provide ...
  • A textual analysis of Hasan Kenzi’s divan and the vezin–usul relationship in his musicalized poems 
    Küçükçalık, Bedia. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The purpose of this study is to present the divan (collected poems) of Hasan Kenzi, a Sufi poet and musician who lived in the eighteenth century. In addition to a textual analysis, information about his life, works and his ...
  • A virus could become a virus’: The body and the world in Buzul Çağının Virüsü 
    Şen, Münire Sevgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this thesis, I will argue how the sensation mechanisms in Vüs’at O. Bener’s novel Buzul Çağının Virüsü connect itself to the modernist literature tradition. To explain all these issues, I will discuss how the construction ...
  • An analysis of Mai ve Siyah as a serial illustrated novel in the Servet-i Fünun journal 
    Selimoğlu, Yağmur Başak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this study, I discuss the visual innovations along with the progress of visuality on the basis of individual perspective and realist fiction’s focus on the individual’s visuality. Then I detail visuality’s and realist ...
  • Functions of genre in Bay Muannit Sahtegi’nin notları: The diary genre as a means of masculine domination and masculinist discourse 
    Ulusman, Bilge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis, centred upon the examination of the phallogocentric discourse in Vüs’at O. Bener’s novel, Bay Muannit Sahtegi’nin Notları (1991), shows how the dominant masculinist voice legitimizes itself through the generic ...
  • A transcription and textual analysis of Münazara-i Tuti vü Zağ Tercemesi 
    Arslan, Serap. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study consists of a transcription of the Münazara-i Tuti vü Zağ Tercemesi, which was written by Şerif Efendi in the sixteenth century, and includes research on both the text and its writer. The work was translated ...
  • The scent of the beloved’s hair in Divan poetry 
    Demir, Muhammet Ali. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis researches the subject of the scent of the beloved’s hair in Divan Poetry in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in terms of form and content. It explains the words and phrases that divan poets prefer to use ...

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