Bogazici University Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • 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  • The Relationship between historical documents and fiction in Attila İlhan's Aynanın İçindekiler series of novels 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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