Bogazici University Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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.)