Ph.D. Theses

 

Recent Submissions

  • Human voice echoing in the silence of god: worldliness and death in Tevfik Fikret’s poetry 
    Küçük, Deniz Aktan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This dissertation suggests a possible reading of Tevfik Fikret’s poetry with reference to worldliness and its conceptual manifestation of death within the context of nineteenth century Ottoman poetry. In doing this, this ...
  • Stuck between two worlds: Karamanlidika literary production, Evangelinos Misailidis and Temaşa-i Dünya ve Cefakâr u Cefakeş as a case of rewriting 
    Şişmanoğlu Şimşek, Şehnaz. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This dissertation aims to situate in modern Turkish literature a narrative fiction, previously overlooked by Turkish literary historians, called Temaşa-i Dünya ve Cefakâr u Cefakeş (1871-1872) by Evangelinos Misailidis ...
  • Kemal Ahmed Dede''s verse narrative Tercüme-i Menakıb-ı Mevlana (a verse version in The Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn tradition) 
    Sinan Nizam, Betül. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The essential aim of this dissertation is to uncover the life of one of the sixteenth century sufis and poets, Kemâl Ahmed Dede, forgotton among the Mevlevî sources, to present his mesnevi Tercüme-i Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ which ...
  • The role of the theatre in the construction of state ideology 
    Dicle Başbuğ, Esra. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This dissertation examines how theatrical works written during the period of Halkevleri (People’s Houses) functioned to communicate Kemalist ideology to the public and investigates the particular role of these plays in the ...
  • Heft Peyker Mesnevis in Turkish literature and Hayâtî’s Heft Peyker 
    Sürelli, Bahadır. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    Starting from the question of how the Bahram Gor narratives have emerged in Persian literature, this work researches a sixteenth century Divan poet Hayâtî’s Haft Paykar, in terms of the dispersion of the subject to Anatolian ...
  • Fantastic novel :|a genre of dubious existence in the shadow of Ottoman/Turkish modernization (1875-1960) 
    Aslan, Pelin. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This dissertation examines fantastic novel genre in Turkish literature within the period between the late nineteenth century when the novel emerged as a new genre and the mid twentieth century which marks a turning point ...
  • Muhyi's Hüsn ü Dil : an allegorical work 
    Açıl, Berat. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
  • The romantic roots of Turkish poetry :|romantic subjectivity in Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan's poetry 
    Öztürk, Veysel. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This dissertation investigates the romantic subjectivity in Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan’s poetry. It argues that Abdülhak Hâmid was the real pioneer of modern Turkish poetry, the fundamental characteristics and conceptualization ...
  • Âlî Efendi’s Târîh-i Engürüs and the literary context of Ottoman historical narratives 
    Pomakoğlu, Ayşegül. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    The subject of this dissertation is Târîh-i Engürüs, a literary work which describes the events that took place during the Ottoman campaign on Hungary between 1593 1596. The manuscript is recorded in Revan 1302, Topkapı ...
  • A crisis of representation :|the literary identity of hijabi woman in Turkish novels 
    Balta, İclal Didem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This dissertation examines the ethical and problematic meaning attributed to hijabi woman identity representations in Turkish novels (1910-2017) in terms of narrative ethics. Hijabi woman, who is the subject of this ...
  • Writing from the closet :|Bilge Karasu's queer modernism 
    Erdoğan Evren, Selen. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This dissertation aims to show how Bilge Karasu’s texts represent normative violence and disrupt the heteronormative matrix. For this end, on the other hand, queer theory is an instrument, and on the other hand, I read ...
  • “Constructing the Self” :|representations of masculinity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's novels 
    Atik, Egem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This dissertation explores the representations of masculinity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s novels. Each chapter focuses on the principal themes and issues which play a significant role in the construction of masculinities ...
  • The geograpy of Ottoman poetry :|cities in ghazels 
    Akçay, Ülkü. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In this dissertation, it is aimed to reveal how cities are used as poetic materials in classical Turkish literature. The study is based on the ghazels of almost three hundred and fifty divans, those were written between ...
  • The representation of Abdülhamid II's era in the post 1908 plays in the national tragedy genre 
    İbidan, Zuhal (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This dissertation examines the political-documentary (siyasal-belgesel) theater plays written between 1908-1914. I aimed to carry out the textual analysis of the thirty-three plays, on which the dissertation is built, in ...
  • An analysis of the terminology of textual production methods in sixteenth-century Ottoman şair tezkires 
    Konar, Aişe Handan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Şair tezkires (tezkiretü’ş-şu‘arâ) or biographical dictionaries of poets are regarded as the most prominent literary/historical sources of Ottoman literature. Originated in the Arabic and remodeled in the Persian tradition, ...
  • New novel, old village: The history, origin and end of the village novel (1950-1980) 
    Irmak, İsmail Erkan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study examines the generic, cultural, historical and political determinants of village novels written roughly between 1950 and 1980. In the history of Turkish literature, every text on the village was included in the ...
  • The economy of sense in Oktay Rifat’s poetry 
    Aydoğan, Yüce. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This dissertation examines the conditions of production, emergence and circulation of poetic sense in Oktay Rifat’s (1914-1988) poetry. Using the notion of “economy of sense”, it explores the problematic of poetic creation ...
  • Subject, nature and deterritorialization in Ahmet Haşim’s poetry 
    Özkök, Seher. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis aims to draw a picture of the subject from nature, subject to society, aesthetics from society. The nature of the subject, which began with the first poems of Ahmet Haşim, was evolved into the nature-maternal ...
  • Modernity and subjectivity in the literary critism of Namık Kemal 
    Altuğ, Fatih, 1977- (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This dissertation examines the relation of the literary criticism of Namık Kemal to modern Ottoman subjectivity. There is a close relation between the literary criticism and the formulation of new Ottoman subjectivity. The ...