Bogazici University Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • Dîvân by Fetvâemînizâde Gâlib Zühdî: structural and contextual analysis 
    Demirkoparan, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis provides structural and contextual analysis of the manuscript “Dîvân”, written by Fetvâemînizâde Gâlib Zühdî, one of the divan poets of the 19th century, and gives information about the biography and literary ...
  • Dîvân by Bahârî: structural and contential analysis 
    Pomakoğlu, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The subject of this thesis is Dîvân by Bahârî, one of the sixteenth century Ottoman poets. The main aim is to present and analyze the Dîvân in terms of form and content, with giving some information about Bahârî’s life and ...
  • Novels ‘Alternate to History’: the representation of the second world war in Turkish period novels 
    Eroğlu, Zuhal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The Second World War is one which Turkey could not remain indifferent although it did not enter the war de facto. It was directly affected during the war and the aftermath in terms of international relationship as well as ...
  • Tahmîsât and tesdîsât of Mehmed II’s poems by Ali Emîrî Efendi 
    Akçay, Ülkü. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The main purpose of this thesis is to present the Tahmîsât u Tesdîsât by Ali Emîrî Efendi who lived in the twentieth century. My study will include the text of Tahmîsât u Tesdîsât in Latin transcription and I examine the ...
  • Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem as a Theorist and as a novelist: |Talim-i Edebiyat and Araba Sevdası with respect to the oppositions of east- west and romanticism- realism 
    Akyıldız, Olcay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1996., 1996.)
    In this study, Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem's two works one of which is a part of and the other fictionalizes the Westernization movement launched in Tanzimat period, are analyzed with respect to the philosophical trends and the ...
  • Hikaye-i Zen Dost or Hikaye-i Mekr-i Zenan-i Acüz (Critical edition, textual analysis, glossary) 
    Akman, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    Hikaye-i zen Dost or Hikaye-i Mekr-i Zenan-i Acüz is a short story which was written in the eighteenth century with the genre of inşa (inşa prose). The language of the story is hard to understand because of its style which ...
  • Divan by Hasan Rıza 
    Telli, Fatma Betül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The subject of this thesis is Divan by Hasan Rıza Efendi, one of the nineteenth century Ottoman poets. The main aim is to present and analyze the Divan in terms of form and content, with some information about Hasan Rıza's ...
  • Epistolary novel and women writers: Fatma Aliye, Halide Edip Adıvar and Şükûfe Nihal Başar 
    Dereli, Bihter. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis examines the epistolary novels by women writers in Turkish literature from Tanzimat to early Republican period. These epistolary novels fundamentally depend on the "female I" narrator. This thesis focuses on ...
  • Hasan Şu'uri Efendi's translation of Pend-Name-i Attar : text and textual analysis 
    Konar, Aişe Handan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Ferîduddîn Attâr is undoubtedly one of the most famous and influential classical Persian poets whose influences can be observed in many literatures over the world. His Pend-nâme is a short mathnawi which focuses on ethical ...
  • 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.)