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Eın Rezeptıonsversuch Von Thomas Manns Roman 'Der Zauberberg' In Der Corona-Pandemıe
(2021) Ekiz, Tevfik; 6769; Yabancı Diller Bölümü
The semi-autobiographical novel "Der Zauberberg" (The Magic Mountain) was published in 1924 by Thomas Mann as a "satire" and "humorous byproduct" of his work "Death in Venice". It provides an example, as so often in his novels, of the narrative techniques of the Bildungsroman (novel of personal development), and may be understood through a variety of interpretative approaches. In this work Thomas Mann deals intensively with the concepts of health and illness, and indeed life and death, which are issues highly relevant to mankind during the Corona pandemic. In the work the protagonist Hans Castorp, who has just finished his engineering qualifications, intends to make an educational journey and a three-week visit to his ill cousin in a Davos sanatorium for patients with lung disease, but ends up being diagnosed with tuberculosis and staying for seven years. In this article his observations in the sanatorium are placed in relation to the present Corona pandemic. An attempt will be made to show that an understanding of psychoanalysis and the pandemic, as well as of illness and death, should be the means to self-knowledge. Focusing on Sigmund Freud’s approach, which assumes that human behaviour cannot be explained without reference to unconscious processes, the study gives examples from the novel. It concludes with an appeal that mankind should hold on to life, in the midst of this unforeseen Corona pandemic, and never give up hope.
The Problematic of Reading Generic Signals in Parodic Discourse
(2013) Kırca, Mustafa; 33693; İngilizce Mütercimlik ve Tercümanlık
The aim of this study is to analyze the double-function of generic signals in double-voiced discourse of parody which involves by its nature the parodied and the parodying voices simultaneously. The paper claims that generic signals, which are supposed to be working mostly at an unconscious level to create a generic context for the reader in interpreting a text, become double-voiced by the parodist’s manipulation and work at a conscious level. It is common that the parody writer barrows and appropriates generic signals of the genre he parodies to indicate the parodied genre and also his departure from this genre. Parodic intentions become palpable immediately with the „parodic stylization” — to use Bakhtin’s term — of the generic signals, which brings about the Bakhtinian refraction of the authorial voice in parody. Since the parody writer intentionally appropriates the speech of the prodied genre, authorial refractions become clearer in parodic discourse. Through studying such refractions with a particular emphasis on genre parodies and specific examples from Cervantes’ Don Quijote, the present study argues that generic signals in parodic discourse assume the double-function of signaling the parodied genre and the parodying voice simultaneously. In order to show how generic signals assume a highly communicative function in parody, this study focuses on texts where the author parodies not a single writer and a single work, but a whole genre with its conventions. As a genre parody which aims for the governing discourse behind the genre it imitates, Cervantes’ Don Quijote produce significant examples that the double-function of generic signals can be seen explicitly through the authorial refractions in the text.

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