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Unbelonging in Postcolonial Literature, 2023

Sosyal, Beşeri ve İdari Bilimler Alanında Gelişmeler Cilt 1, 2023

Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat, Kuram ve Uygulama, 2023

İngilizcenin en önemli yazarları arasında yer alan James Joyce (1882-1941), başta öykü ve roman t... more İngilizcenin en önemli yazarları arasında yer alan James Joyce (1882-1941), başta öykü ve roman türleri olmak üzere modernist ve II. Dünya Savaşı sonrası çağdaş (veya postmodern) edebiyatı derinden etkilemiş bir isimdir. XX. yüzyılın ilk çeyreğinden ölümüne kadar olan süreçte kurmaca düzyazı biçimleri ile anlatı tekniklerine benzeri görülmemiş yenilikler getiren ve eserlerinde bunların en yetkin örneklerini veren yazar, sadece Britanya, Amerika ve Avrupa coğrafyasında değil tüm dünyada büyük bir ilgi uyandırmış, edebiyatta kalıcı izler bırakmıştır. Şiir ve tiyatro oyunu türlerinde de kalem oynatan Joyce'un belli başlı eserleri

Litera: Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2003

dtinya edebiyati tizerine ytirtittilen en onemli tart1 §malardan biri Fredric Jameson ve Aijaz Ah... more dtinya edebiyati tizerine ytirtittilen en onemli tart1 §malardan biri Fredric Jameson ve Aijaz Ahmad arasmda ya §anm1 §tir. Jameson'm Social Text dergisinin on altmc1 say1smda yay1mlanan ve "(:okuluslu Sermaye <;agmda U9tincti Dtinya Edebiyat1" ba §hg1m ta §iyan yaz1sma Ahmad, aym derginin bir sonraki say1smda "Jameson'm btekilik Retorigi ve 'Ulusal Alegori"' ba §hkh bir yaz1yla cevap vermi §tir. Bu tart1 §manm tarihi 1986 y1hna dek uzansa da, hem Jameson'm kulland1g1 belli ba §h kavramlar ve §emala §tirmalar, hem de Ahmad'm bunlara yonelik ele §tirileri ve ithamlan bir 9ok baklmdan gtincelligini korumaktadlf.

Folklore/Literature, 2023

"Modernist literature" is a capacious term that designates both an epoch and a variety of politic... more "Modernist literature" is a capacious term that designates both an epoch and a variety of political attitudes espoused or rejected by the authors grouped under this title. On the one hand, the widely used concepts of high and late modernism refer to the period approximately between 1900 and the 1960s, divided by World War II. On the other, they concern the politics of literary modernism discussed on the basis of how writers and poets relate to their own social-historical conditions and to the utopian vision of a radically different kind of individual and collective existence that aims to transcend the given modes of subjectivity and sociality. In this article, I have traced specifically the changing politics of modernist literature with respect to that utopian desire for transcendence which some theorists call the modernist absolute. Differing from much of the scholarship on the politics of modernist literature that privileges the novel genre, in the present study, I have focused on the poetry of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. Through textual and theoretical analyses of “In the Seven Woods” and “A Collar-bone of a Hare” by Yeats and “Of Mere Being” by Stevens, I have demonstrated how the high modernist imagining of transcendence turns with late modernism into a theme or a motif that reveals the linguistic character of such visions and the ideological function of their utopianism. In my discussion, I have tried to show that Yeats, who is part of high modernist literature in terms of periodization, belongs to this category due to his political imagining that prioritizes transcendence. Furthermore, unlike Yeats, Stevens stands close, especially in his last poems, to the late modernist mindset that anticipates the politics of postmodern literature and the poststructuralist awareness of the role of language in constructing meaning and value.

Firat University Journal of Social Sciences, 2023

The works titled Empire and Multitude that were co-authored by political theorists Michael Hardt ... more The works titled Empire and Multitude that were co-authored by political theorists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri have created a considerable impact on human and social sciences. In these studies, the writers examine the main characteristics of the passage from modernity to postmodernity, industrial production to postindustrial immaterial production, modern notion of sovereignty to the global regime that they call Empire. Moreover, they maintain that the political agents that were active in modernity should be reconsidered within the context of a new postmodern political subjectivity which they call "the multitude." This article argues that Hardt and Negri's political theory cannot be grasped only with an empirical approach, it must also be read from the perspective of political ontology. Underlying this claim is the fact that Hardt and Negri depart from the dominant political theories and critical methods of modernity, and that they take Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Spinozian ontology to the center of their analysis. Accordingly, this article discusses the sources-primarily the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari-that feed into concepts such as Empire, the multitude, desire, and immaterial labor introduced by Hardt and Negri, and it investigates the political ontology that constitutes the framework of their work.

Gümüşhane University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, 2022

Regarded as one of the masterpieces of modernist literature, James Joyce's Ulysses was serialized... more Regarded as one of the masterpieces of modernist literature, James Joyce's Ulysses was serialized between 1918 and 1920, and was published in 1922 in book form. Both in the period of its serialization and since its publication, there have been frequent discussions about Ulysses, and scholars have tried to tackle it from within diverse interpretive frameworks. In these interpretive and analytical endeavors, Ulysses' extraordinarily rich formal quality has always occupied a prominent place. This article focuses on some of the major formal analytical approaches to Joyce's novel, and it examines various kinds of interpretive practices carried out on Ulysses as well as the meanings that were sought in the text as a whole. The discussion made in the article underlines the problematic aspects of the approaches that choose to apply Homer's epic the Odyssey and its content to Joyce's work in a mode of one-to-one matching, including the musical reading of Ulysses' form. Moreover, it is argued that the phenomena of fragmentation and loss of totality, the dominant social and subjective experience of the period that gave rise to modernist literature, should be taken to the center in Ulysses' formal analyses.

IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, 2023

The quest for authenticity as an ethical ideal can be observed throughout the intellectual histor... more The quest for authenticity as an ethical ideal can be observed throughout the intellectual history of modernity from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century. One of the objectives of this study is to support this fundamental claim with reference to the relevant works of certain writers and philosophers selected from different centuries to represent that long period called modernity. While the thinkers whose works are discussed to reach this goal are primarily Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Sartre, several other names are also included in this overview. Another objective of this article is to identify the common aspects of these theoretical and philosophical narratives titled "authenticity-thinking," and to underscore their conditions of possibility. Relatedly, the main question that this study tries to answer is whether these conditions are still present in postmodernity (F. Jameson), post-postmodernity (J. Nealon), or digimodernity (A. Kirby) that follows modernity. One of the most crucial elements in this study's assessment of contemporary societies is the figure of autistic subject that is claimed to have replaced the subject of authenticity.

Dokuz Eylul University The Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences, 2023

This study is based on the premise that modernist literature, presented as an essentially Western... more This study is based on the premise that modernist literature, presented as an essentially Western current in the established narratives of literary history, is global in nature, and that there are works all around the world that fall within its scope. This premise rests on the fact that the condition called modernity itself is a global phenomenon. Not only colonialism and imperialism, but also the projects of modernization and Westernization witnessed in different geographies made modernity extend over the entire globe. This article argues that the formal and technical novelties distinguishing modernist literature from what preceded it intend to represent and respond to new subjective and social experiences caused by modernity. In this context, Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s novel A Mind at Peace (Huzur) are examined, and their formal and technical aspects are discussed with regard to a common experience of modernity. This experience bearing different forms and contents in different places is identified as fragmentation, loss of the sense of totality, alienation, and the ensuing desire for authenticity. It is demonstrated that the notion of the image in Pound’s poem and the method of dream aesthetics in Tanpınar’s novel are two literary inventions addressing that common experience of fragmentation and the quest for authenticity. This study also identifies the distinct traits of the two modes of authenticity imagined by Pound and Tanpınar.