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Article (Western)word / (Eastern)image in My Name Is Red: an Imagological Reading of Orhan Pamuk’s Ekphrastic Reimagination(2022) Kirca, MustafaBu çalışmanın amacı, Orhan Pamuk’un Benim Adım Kırmızı romanını görsel yansıtma biçimlerinin ve Osmanlı minyatür eserlerinin konu edildiği imgemetin ve ekfrastik anlatı olarak incelemektir. Pamuk’un bu eserinde ekfrastik anlatı, Osmanlı ve İranlı üstatların minyatürlerinde yer alan imgelerin roman karakterlerine ve anlatıcılarına dönüşmesi ve bu sayede sürdürdükleri sanat ve gerçeklik ilişkisi üzerine tartışmalarıyla gerçekleşir. Romanda farklı anlatıcı-karakterler, 16. Yüzyıl Osmanlı minyatür resmi ve aynı dönemlerde Batı resim sanatında en bilinen örneklerini veren perspektifi ikili karşıtlık olarak tartışır. Böylece görsel olan romanda anlatının konusu haline gelir. İmge ve söz arasındaki ayrımın netliğini kaybettiği ve her ikisinin de hiyerarşik olmayan bir düzlemde yer aldığı Benim Adım Kırmızı, imgemetin kavramına örnek oluşturur. Ayrıca Pamuk’un bu romanı imgesel olanın yazılı metne aktarıldığı göstergeler arası bir çeviri olarak da değerlendirilir. Romanda, Frenk ya da Venedik üslubu olarak adlandırılan Rönesans perspektif kullanımı objektif gerçekliğe en yakın yansıtma biçimi olarak görülür. Minyatür ise resmettiği nesnelerin gerçeğine benzemeleriyle değil, “anlamı” yansıtma çabası bakımından daha üstün olarak görülür. Romanın konusunu oluşturan bu iki sanat türünün ve onların gerçekliği görme biçimlerinin Doğu-Batı zıtlığı içerisinde sunulması, “biz ve öteki” imgelerinin yeniden şekil aldığı farklı okumalara açar. İmgebilimin de konusunu oluşturan bu türden kimlik çalışmalarının dinamiğini belirleyen öz ve ötekini tanıma/tanımlama için imge yaratımı, Benim Adım Kırmızı adlı romanda birbirine karşıt olarak verilen görme ve resmetme biçimleri üzerinden tartışılmaktadır.Article The Problematic of Reading Generic Signals in Parodic Discourse(2013) Kırca, MustafaThe 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.Article Tess of the d’Urbervilles: the tragedy of godless human existence(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2009) Koç, ErtuğrulIn Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy depicts a godless world where human consciousness is unable to comprehend the consciousness of the universe. Hardy shows that, having created God as the culmination of his own moral perception, man hopelessly expects mercy and poetic justice from his own creation. Tess’s catastrophe is not the work of Christian God, but the work of the powers beyond the understanding of the character. Although Hardy suggests the solution for the circle of tragedy in human solidarity, in the civilization of man, or in the social stratification of the Victorian world, however, there is no place for peace and harmony. Hence, from Hardy’s perspective, man is alone and defenseless in the face of the tragedy awaiting him. Criticizing in a sardonic way the patriarchal mentality and the ignorance of his main character Tess, Hardy reveals that human existence is tragic, and what defines the life of individual is crass-casualty.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Reading Rushdie in Translation: Midnight's Children, Postcolonial Writing/Translation, and Literatures of the World(Edinburgh Univ Press, 2021) Rundholz, Adelheid; Kirca, MustafaArticle Citation - Scopus: 1Postmodern Philosophy of History and Reading Its Traces in Postcolonial (Re)writing(Springer, 2023) Kirca, MustafaPresenting the outlines of the postmodern philosophy of historiography as it shapes the theoretical background for the analysis of the historical novel, this study aims to render that the recent understanding of history and its reconceptualization in decolonizing fictional (re)writings still provides the "re-visionary" stance seen in contemporary postcolonial narratives. After the introduction of postmodern innovations in theoretical and imaginative writing, there has emerged a rather newfangled view of the historical novel and an increasing inclination for narratives that attempt to reimagine historical moments and chronicles they integrate into their fictional worlds to pursue a re-visionary questioning. The critical frameworks of postcolonial historical fiction and speaking subalterns have moved on in postmillennial historical novels and political novels. Considering that postcolonial literary theories and fictional (re)writings attempt to deconstruct homogenous discourses and the Eurocentric (history) writing of the colonizer, it is claimed that, for the sake of textual decolonization, recent works of postcolonial historical writing intersect in several ways with the newfangled view of the historical novel.Article Language attitudes of Turkish students towards the English language and its use in Turkish context(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2007) Karahan, FirdevsLearners, teachers, administrators, and parents complain about why most of Turkish people cannot attain the desired level of proficiency in English. Within the frame of this study, it is assumed that the provocative relation between language attitudes and language learning is a missing point of discussions on the problems of teaching English in Turkey. This study examines the relationship between language attitudes towards the English language and its use in Turkey. The sample included 190 eighth grade students of a private primary school in Adana, Turkey, where English is intensively taught. The questionnaire consisted of two parts: The first part required personal information such as gender, the age when they started to learn English, the place where they started to learn English. The second part asked them about their attitudes towards the English language and their attitudes towards the use of English in Turkish context. Mann Whitney U test and Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient tests were applied. It is found out that although these students are exposed to English in a school environment more frequently than other students at public schools, they have only mildly positive attitudes; especially female students have higher rates. They recognize the importance of the English language but interestingly do not reveal high level orientation towards learning the language. On the other hand, they have mildly positive attitudes towards the English based culture but they are not tolerant to Turkish people speaking English among themselvesArticle Avrupa Türk Edebiyat› ve bir temsilcisi: Emine Sevgi Özdamar(2007) Ekiz, TevfikAlmanya’da yaşayan ve Almanca yazan Türk kökenli yazarlarımızın edebi ürünlerinin nasıl sınıflandırılacakları ve hangi edebiyata dahil edilecekleri konusu Türk ve Alman edebiyatbilimcilerini meşgul etmiştir. Bugüne kadar genellikle “göçmen edebiyatı” kullanılmasına karşın, herkesin üzerinde uzlaştığı bir tanımlama hâlâ yapılamamıştır. Söz konusu edebiyatın bu çalışmada “Avrupa Türk Edebiyatı” olarak tanımlanmasının doğru olacağı görüşü, bu edebiyatın temsilcilerinden Emine Sevgi Özdamar’ın eserlerinden hareketle önerilmektedir; çünkü, onun tüm eserlerinde belirleyici öge Türk Kültürü’ dürArticle Re- creating the doppelganger in peter ackroyds the casebook of victor frankenstein(2015) Kırca, Mustafa; Munar, Hazalİngiliz çağdaş romancılarından Peter Ackroyd, Victor Frankensteinin Vaka Defteri (2008) adlı eserinde, Mary Shelleynin 1818de yazdığı ve artık kanon olarak kabul edilen İngilizce adıyla Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus romanını yeniden kaleme alarak gotik eserlerde karşımıza çıkan kötücül ikiz karakterler (doppelganger) yaratma geleneğine yeni bir yorum getirmiştir. Bu kötücül ikiz, Ackroydun eserinde roman kahramanı olan Victor Frankensteinın bastırılmış dürtülerinin bir dışa vurumu olarak kendisini gösterir. Psikolojik sorunları olan kahramanının yaşadıklarının anlatıldığı bir vaka defteri olarak sunulan bu eserinde romancı, post- modern döneme ait gotik cinayet romanı örneği sunmaktadır. Bu yönüyle, Ackroydun romanı gerçek ile kurmaca arasındaki ilişkiyi sorunsallaştırması bakımından günümüz okurunun be klentilerini karşılayan ve bilinen bir öykünün yeniden yorumlanması da olsa özgün kabul edebileceğimiz bir eserdir.Article Alımlama Estetiği mi Metinlerarasılık mı?(2007) Ekiz, TevfikEdebî metinlerin yorumlanma ve çözümlenmesinde yazar ya da metin merkezli çözümleme çalışmalarına karşı olarak, alımlama estetiği kuramı “okur”u alımlayıcıyı birincil konumda tutmaktadır. Metinlerin, öncel metinlerle Prätext bağıntı içerisinde olduğu anlayışından hareket eden ve bu bağıntıyı inceleyen metinlerarasılık kuramı da aynı şekilde “okur” merkezlidir. Okur, metin içerisinde çok çeşitli türlerde karşımıza çıkan ilişkileri, bağıntıları açığa çıkarmak durumundadır. Alımlama estetiği kuramcılarına göre; pasif alımlayıcı konumundan aktif, anlam üreten alımlayıcı konumuna geçiş, metinlerdeki boşlukların doldurulmasıyla, somutlanmasıyla mümkündür. Tüm metinlerin birbirleriyle örüntü içerisinde olduğu temel görüşünden hareket eden metinlerarasılık kuramına göre de, bu örüntüyü açığa çıkarmaya çalışmak, metinlerin anlamlandırılma ve yorumlanmasının temelini oluşturmaktadır.Book Part Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections: Imagological Readings(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019) Botezat, Onorina; Kırca, MustafaArticle Gender Performance and Transitivity in Angela Carter's the Passion of New Eve(Hebrew Univ Magnes Press, 2023) Erkilic, Sila; Kirca, MustafaPublication Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018) Kırca, MustafaThe term ‘multiculturalism’ has been widely quoted to explain and study transnational networks and cultural changes on a global scale. This book focuses on the application of multicultural theories and perspectives in the field of literature and particularly in contemporary narratives. Bringing together ten studies which blur the limits of conventional discourse, and employing an interdisciplinary approach to address research problems using methods and insights borrowed from multiple disciplines, it features theoretical and analytical writings on multiculturalism and its traces in literatures that subvert the essentialist binary frameworks of ethnicity, race, nation and identity in a variety of texts. These include Martin Amis’s The Pregnant Widow, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Salman Rushdie’s Midnights Children and Shame, Hanif Kureishi’s Something to Tell You, J. G. Ballard’s High-Rise, Lady Annie Brassey’s Sunshine and Storm in the East; or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople, and Sir Henry Blount’s A Voyage into the Levant. Approaching theoretical issues concerning multiculturalism from multiple perspectives and looking for its traces in different time periods and genres, this book will be of interest for scholars and researchers working in the fields of literature and cultural studies, as well as students studying in the same fields and the general reader.Article Challenges to ekphrastic poetry: Carol Ann Duffy’s “Standing Female Nude”*(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2013) Uzundemir, ÖzlemEkphrasis rests on the paragone between the sister arts, namely verbal and visual arts, the word and the image. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in his Laocoön claims that the image is silent and fixed while the literary work is based on voice and action. W. J. T. Mitchell in his Picture Theory enlarges this binary opposition between the word and image in terms of gender roles: the female image versus the male word. The female image is objectified and gazed, while the male author/artist is the subject and the gazer. The poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “Standing Female Nude” challenges such binary oppositions by giving voice not to the male artist but to his female model, and by attributing the role of gazing to her. Hence, the aim of this article is to display how Duffy deconstructs the ekphrastic tradition in her poem in order to subvert the domineering relationship between the artist and his modelArticle Eın Rezeptıonsversuch Von Thomas Manns Roman 'Der Zauberberg' In Der Corona-Pandemıe(2021) Ekiz, TevfikThe 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.Editorial B/orders unbound: Marginality, ethnicity and identity in literatures(Peter Lang AG, 2017) Okuroğlu Özün, Şule; Kırca, MustafaContemporary literature concerns itself with transgressing borders and destabilizing hierarchical orders. Border crossing to question the given limits and orthodox beliefs brings many disciplines and diverse experiences together, and the result is a myriad of ways of expressing the alternatives when the established boundaries are liberated. The volume presents fifteen essays and brings together many academics and scholars who share a common interest in transgressing borders in literatures. The book is determined to encourage border violations, and each paper tackles the issue of border crossing in different realms and territories.Article From ‘0’, the logic of imagination, to ‘ground zero’, the imagination of logic: the enigmas of Wallace Stevens’ ‘blackbird’ and current US action(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2009) Akın, NüzhetWallace Stevens has signified ‘the logic of imagination’ in his “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” with the image of the blackbird that is the focal point of many debates. Stevens, the Post-Modern theorist, who rejects the logic derived from universal norms and based on pure and absolute reason, substitutes the power of imagination for it. For him, imagination recreates the objective world by synthesizing it. When perceived, the object, having been nullified, is reinterpreted and attributed meaning through the mechanism of imagination. By this way, man brings order and meaning to the disordered and chaotic universe with the ideas he develops. Therefore, imagination is a plane of reality whereby the object is present through concrete perception and absent through abstract perception. This Post-Modern perception resonates with the angle of perception that is claimed by the US following the incident of ‘the ground zero’ when the towers of the World Trade Center were demolished. In line with this, the twin towers being both present in minds as abstraction and absent as concrete have become a reference point in American National imagination. Taking a leap onward from this point, US has seemed to declare war on international terror. However, in this study, it is put forward that America does not take action with the logic of imagination that is a Post-Modern approach, but with the power of imagination of the US Empire that is a Post-Post-Modern approach. According to this, US international policy makers that accept the references of the Nation State America as absolute and permanent reality have created the concept of virtual reality to fill in the void that has appeared after the towers with democracy, equality, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, American ego, the Church built on the rock and the philosophical logic of the western mind, the composition of virtual myth. This approach is the power of ‘the imagination of logicBook The Victorians and the novelists: from Dickens to Hardy(Barış Platin, 2010) Koç, ErtuğrulEditorial Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018) Kırca, MustafaArticle Ann Radcliffe’s Life Described as “helpless Maiden” and the “(Un)conventional Woman” in the Mysteries of Udolpho(Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia, 2015) Koç, E.; Karabulut, T.Ann Radcliffe, an important pioneer of the Gothic genre, is a representative of her culture in terms of revealing the features of the male-dominant 18th century world as acceptable to her audience in The Mysteries of Udolpho. Dealing covertly with the validity of the established values of the patriarchal society, she hardly suggests alternative norms and behaviour types to women. Therefore, if analysed from the biographical and psychological perspectives, Radcliffe can be said to have constructed Emily, the major female character in Udolpho, like herself: Emily is committed to masculine ideas (and ideals), and is submissive to patriarchal authority. By constructing such a character, Radcliffe, in fact, gives hints about her own life which we know little about. The parallelisms between the lives and viewpoints of Radcliffe and her heroine indeed unveil the author’s inner world and her wish fulfilment over the major character. Happy with the masculine civilization, her heroine, like herself, remains anodyne and unengaging. © 2015 Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia. All rights reserved.Article Jeanette Winterson's Literalizing Metaphors in the Passion and Sexing the Cherry(Karadeniz Technical University, 2021) Kirca, M.; Kırca, Mustafa; İngilizce Mütercimlik ve TercümanlıkThe aim of this study is to analyze Jeanette Winterson's The Passion and Sexing the Cherry in terms of the feminine symbolic the writer creates in her female characters' narratives through a process of literalizing dead metaphors. Using metaphors in their literal sense, a rhetorical pattern which Regina Barreca calls "metaphor-into-narrative," is often deemed a subversive tool in women writers' works to create "laughter". It shows that women writers often use a metaphor in a conflicting context in their comedic works, and thereby stripping language of its symbolic quality. The present study argues that the marginal subject position of Winterson's female characters as "misfits" creates a noticeable difference in their discourses and suggests a move from the symbolic order of language to a feminine symbolic. With the examples from The Passion and Sexing the Cherry, the article studies Winterson's "literalization" to reveal how the writer uses metaphors out of their original contexts not only to create humor but also to destabilize the singular order of language used in historiographic representation by leaving the distinction between what is figurative and what is literal unclear. Winterson's female characters in The Passion and in Sexing the Cherry are also fitting examples for Bakhtin's "Fool" with their resistance to join in the discourse of patriarchy and to understand the habitual ways of conceiving the world. © 2021 Karadeniz Technical University. All rights reserved.
