Authors:Faruk Doğan; Bedrettin Kayhan Abstract: It is known that legends, whose origins and history go back to ancient times, have religious, moral, social and educational aspects and functions. Even though their reality and fictional content are questioned, their always alive structure and miraculous formations coming from faith have made the legends untouchable in the oral tradition. These folk narratives, nourished by the culture of the people, contain a lot of information about the social structure and order of the society in which they live. However, legends have left permanent traces in minds due to their extraordinary and supernatural content. Legends, especially those formed around a specific person, attract great attention from the society and are passed down from generation to generation. There are legends around certain people in many parts of Anatolia. One of these places is Parçikan village of Arguvan district of Malatya. The legends formed around Hacı Ali Parçikan in Parçikan village are worth examining both because they have the characteristics of the legend genre and because they show the belief and cultural richness of the region. For this reason, the legends were recorded in order to prevent them from being lost in history and to ensure their transfer to the next generations. In this study, which was created within the framework of ethnography pattern, one of the qualitative research patterns, data was collected through interviews. 11 people from Parçikan village people were determined as the study group. As a result of the field research, the place of 12 legendary texts collected from people living in the region within the legend genre in Turkish cultural tradition was revealed, and the compiled legends were also evaluated according to their functions as folk products by W. Bascom (2010) and Başgöz (1996). PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Ayşegül Soydaner Abstract: Dystopias are works that depict a dark, oppressive and distorted social order for humanity in a fictional future. Fairytales, on the other hand, are stories that usually contain fantastic elements and carry instructive messages. The relationship between fairytales and dystopian narratives sometimes emerges through the use of fairytale elements in dystopian narratives. Fairytale elements can offer an escape to the reader by representing fantastic elements within a dystopia, or they can criticize problems by exaggerating them. Dystopian narratives, on the other hand, are about social problems and generally deal with issues such as authoritarian regimes, inequality, restrictions on freedom and the degradation of human nature. These types of works try to show the reader the current problems by making social criticism. Irony is a literary device frequently used in dystopian narratives. Irony is used to highlight the contradictions, paradoxes and absurdities of dystopia. Ironic situations in the dystopian world help the reader understand and question social problems more deeply. In dystopian narratives, fairytale elements are usually represented by fantastic beings, magical objects or fantastic places. These elements can be used to relieve tension in the dystopian world or to offer an alternative perspective. This study draws attention to the impact of two different literary genres, dystopia and fairytale, on society based on the use of imagination and metaphor, and also offers an ironic perspective on social criticism. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Vesile Şemşek Abstract: The Turkish War of Independence, in a critical phase of Turkish history, was fought between the oppressors and the oppressed, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the savior of the Turkish nation, who wanted to be oppressed and enslaved, to many oppressed nations with their own unique aspects, who would later follow the path of freedom and independence. , is the war of freedom and independence, which presented a third alternative example and showed the way to rebel against the oppressors. As a matter of fact, the most valuable work of the national struggle waged by the Turkish nation with the spirit of unity and solidarity throughout history is undoubtedly the Republic of Turkey. Until now, numerous studies have been conducted on the Turkish War of Independence and the guiding leader of this War, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. These studies can be classified in different ways. For example, in some cases, emotional elements predominate, while in others, there are issues that drag the event completely or partially into the same direction. While some of them can be considered insufficient in terms of resources, others have to be overcome with new studies due to the various sources and information that have emerged over the years. In this study, the problems that arose during the War of Independence and the situation of the Turkish people in their struggle for independence are discussed. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Sevde Merve Eryılmaz; Oğuz Yıldırım Abstract: Arguing that interpretation should have a limit and measure, Umberto Eco points out in his work Interpretation and Extreme Interpretation that a text can be interpreted from three perspectives. These; the author's intention (intentio auctoris), the reader's intention (intentio lectoris) and the text's intention (intentio operis). In our opinion, the most valid among these three reading styles is the intention of the text. Because once a poem leaves the poet's hand, it no longer belongs solely to the poet or the reader. Now it is open to different interpretations. Starting from this point, in this study, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's poem titled Sesin was examined by making a text-centered reading. During the analysis, the poem was first read in line with the time axis, and sometimes the dictionary meanings of the words in the knees were consulted. As a result of the analysis, the following conclusion was reached: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's poem 'Your Voice' was written in the first person. In the first two or three verses of the poem, the narrator lives in a dream world, it is like a 'dream'. In the last two quatrains, the subject woke up from this 'dream' and experienced the pain of being in reality in the 'world'. The 'voice' used by the subject in the poem is a struggle against the world and the facts. The subject wanted to leave a memory the moment he woke up from his dream and used 'voice' as a means of beco-ming immortal while going to death. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Zainab Jabbar Abstract: This study examines the relationship between women and nature in Doris Lessing's The Cleft and Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground through using gender and ecofeminist lenses. Women's oppression is analogous to nature's oppression. Therefore, this article shows how a patriarchal (or male-dominated) society treats both nature and women and how society's standards unfairly dominate both. Both writers Sally Miller Gearhart and Doris Lessing argue that women and the environment, including (animals) are crucial to ecofeminism studies and practice; women may solve gender issues only by utilizing natural materials. The present piece portrays the female characters in both works acquiring an understanding of the underlying reasons behind every instance of misery they encounter in their lives. As a result, women attempt to escape the machismo society and create a nature-filled utopia (devoid of males). Although some women continue to live with men, they always opt for separation. Finally, this work shows how Gearhart's utopia is the outcome and redemption of The Cleft’s dystopia. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Suay Yılmaz Abstract: “Satires of Circumstances” which is a part of a poetry collection by Thomas Hardy consists of fifteen poems which produce a moral question and a scenery of a daily life of people. The settings of these poems are ordinary places ranging from a living room, bride’s room, in a restaurant, in a store, outdoors, and in the cemetery. There are three poems which take place in the cemetery: “By Her Aunt’s Grave”, “In the Cemetery”, and “In the Moonlight”. These poems are of importance to discuss in terms of cemetery’s dynamism as a both public and a private space are designated through the relations and activities of the people. The cemetery in the three poems as a dynamic area is discussed in terms of public and private space and the dynamism in between drawing on the notions of public space put forward by Mike Devereux and David Littlefield, and definitions of private space by. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Ghenı Al Ghanım Abstract: This article is a comparative and critical study, presenting Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code in relation to Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World. The pedagogical matter in Sophie’s World is quite clear, nonetheless, this paper displays the possibility of pedagogy in The Da Vinci Code as well. Both novels contain a form of historical facts and philosophical knowledge with the purpose of educating the audiences. This article aims to analyze The Da Vinci Code and Sophie’s World from a pedagogical perspective in which Brown highlights a variety of notions when analyzing historical facts, to teach or explain to the woman Sophie, things which the reader comes to realize, are strongly desired for her to understand. This helps to display the types of sources of information people have access to nowadays. Gaarder also uses a unique technique to simplify different and difficult ideologies to be easily acquired by readers. Moreover, this paper intends to find answers to the questions of whether Gaarder has succeeded in keeping readers engaged in the imaginary story ‘Sophie’s World’ or whether the pedagogical narration impacts their engagement. There may be a constraint in how far Gaarder can use the pedagogical teaching in his novel. The authors force rhetorical style throughout the novels. This scholastic approach highlights a clear and effective explanation but this seems to take readers directly back to their role as students, which is quite passive. These philosophical interpretations might take readers out of the novel and show that the passage between imaginative and pedagogical teaching is more complex than it appears. Brown, in his novel The Da Vinci Code, uses a conspiracy thriller as a subgenre of thriller fiction to show philosophical interpretations of historical facts. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Namiq Ahmadov Abstract: Turkish theme was one of the topics of great interest in the Azerbaijani press in the Soviet era. This article provides factual evidence that there were quite a lot of comprehensive writings about Turkey and Turkism, though the articles and news published in most popular press media of the time in the early years of the Soviet government were savored with envy and jealousy towards Turkism. Also the article brings to attention the role of the “Kommunist” newspaper as an important tool in the implementation of the alphabetic reform, conducting of information and propaganda work of the Eastern peoples and Turkic congresses. It is shown that in the years when the Academy of Sciences, literary-artistic organizations have not yet been formed, the newspaper editorial has played the role of a spiritual center, which has gathered national forces around itself. But at the same time it should not be forgotten that the newspaper was founded to carry out the policy of and published by means of the resources of the governing organization, which it was a body of. Nevertheless, the newspaper has never abandoned its national affiliation, always sought to protect the national identity in numerous articles, and has been punished for such a stance from time to time. The articles published in the “Kommunist” newspaper in the 1920s were building confidence in Turkish-Soviet friendship and the future of relations with Turkey. Unfortunately, it became clear later on that it was a plan stemming from domestic and foreign policies of the Soviet government to bring Turkey to the communist path. Needless to say that repression was unleashed when this plan did not work, and the newspaper was not spared as well. Prosecution of the authors has been initiated on the grounds of “nationalism”, “Turkism”. There have been cases of tough measures taken repeatedly at a very high level to disperse the “nationalist nest” in the “Kommunist” newspaper. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Recep Kılıç Abstract: Mehemmetimin Obulkasimov 1943 is one of the most important figures of contemporary Uyghur poetry. Despite all the political oppression and violence of the period, he wrote his poems, writing his first poems in East Turkestan under Chinese occupation and his later poems in the Soviet Union. He considered Kazakh poets Abay and Shakerim as his masters. He created a unique poetic language by localizing Chagatai Turkish in the poems he wrote in classical style. In this article, verb affixes, which are a part of language and style in Mehemmetimin Obulkasimov's poems, are analyzed. The poems used in this analysis are taken from Prof. Dr. Hikmet KORAŞ's work "Homeland Poet Bir Uyghur Mehemmetimin Obulkasimov (Almasbek)". The use of noun-verb, adjective-verb and adverb-verb in the poems in this work was determined and tried to be determined as a language and stylistic feature. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Serkan Tok Abstract: Jun Kaneko is regarded as one of the pioneers of monumental ceramic sculpture living in Japan. According to Kaneko, he has adopted the principle that "if everything in the world were the same size, there would be no need for the concept of scale". The basic philosophy of the artist's work is that nothing can exist on its own; everything is influenced by other objects or its environment. Using red clay (ceramic mud), the artist pushes the boundaries between abstract and metaphorical art, expressing real images and the perception of imaginary reality with superficial patterns in his works. Throughout his career, the artist has demonstrated his versatility by producing interdisciplinary works in a variety of materials. Patterns such as polka dots, sticks and tiles in the artist's works create awareness between objects and other works around them. In addition, Kaneko's works create a synthesis between Western and Eastern identity; they show a very balanced view between American and Japanese aesthetic elements. Her figures have meditative and spiritual qualities and are often associated with Japanese culture and mythology. Kaneko's "Heads" will be analysed in detail in this article, focusing on the artist's technique and expression. This work is seen as a significant reflection of Kaneko's artistic development and original expression. In Heads, Kaneko used ceramic clay to sculpt monumental human heads, stylised only from the neck upwards. Her sculptures skilfully combine abstract forms and surface patterns to challenge the viewer's perception. An examination of the works reveals how Kaneko's use of abstract patterns and surface textures enhances the meaning and emotional impact of the work. The fact that the figures in the artist's head sculptures generally have a meditative and spiritual quality suggests that the artist was inspired by Japanese culture and mythology. Kaneko's works also synthesise her own cultural identity and experiences, creating a balance between Western and Eastern aesthetic elements. "Heads opens an important window into Jun Kaneko's artistic development and understanding of art. The patterns used by the artist draw the viewer into the work, enriching the experience of emotion and thought through abstract forms. This work stands out as an example of the artist's creation of his own artistic language, bridging the past and the future in his art. This research will analyse the artist's work entitled 'Heads' and w PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Mustafa Yunus Gümüş Abstract: Philosophers have put forward many methods to understand, make sense of, criticize and interpret a text. Phenomenology is one of these methods and is applied to literary works. In this method of criticism, only the text is focused on and factors such as the author of the text, its historical context, the reader's experience are not taken into account, in other words, extra-textual elements are left aside. This method tries to reach the essence of the text. In our study, we tried to analyze the ghazal of Nedîm, one of the important poets of the 18th century, with the redif “there is in it” with a phenomenological approach. In the process of analyzing this poem, we put aside the poet's life story, worldview, other poems and our experiences, that is, we set them aside. We didn’t take into consideration any elements that are not included in the text and interpreted the text based on the words that are the main elements of the text. PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +030
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