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Kocak, Ayse Ozge.

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Negotiating Rationality in Modern Times: Emergence and Development of the Turkish Novel.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Negotiating Rationality in Modern Times: Emergence and Development of the Turkish Novel./
Author:	Kocak, Ayse Ozge.
Description:	258 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3705291
ISBN:	9781321781953

Negotiating Rationality in Modern Times: Emergence and Development of the Turkish Novel.
Kocak, Ayse Ozge.

Negotiating Rationality in Modern Times: Emergence and Development of the Turkish Novel. - 258 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2015.

This dissertation offers a new perspective on the emergence and development of the Turkish novel from the 1880s to the 1970s, through an intellectual and social-historical investigation of the role of reason and rationality in the Turkish modernization project. Starting with the introduction of a new understanding of reason as the principal guide to individual and social action, and continuing with the state's appeals to rationality in implementing institutional and ideological change, it addresses the question of how Turkish novelists deal with the concepts of reason and rationality in their work, while also looking at how these concepts help shape the form of their novels. The four novelists examined in this dissertation represent four moments that are identified here as having transformational significance in the genealogy of the Turkish novel: for the first moment, I read Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem's Araba Sevdasi (A Carriage Affair) as liberation from dogma and convention during the late Ottoman period; for the second, I discuss Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu's Yaban ( Alien) as representative of ideological conformity that prevailed during the emergence of a new dogmatic state during the early Republica era; for the third, I examine Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Huzur ( A Mind At Peace) and Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitusu (The Time Regulation Institute) as a negotiation between the past and the present that results in a self-orientalizing attitude, in the 1950s and 1960s; and for the fourth moment, through Oguz Atay's Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected) and Tehlikeli Oyunlar (Dangerous Games), I identify a crisis of rationality and a return to a critical but also naive reason in the 1970s. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary work required to study the novel as a genre within an intellectual framework that does justice to its historical and social conditions, the new perspective offered in this dissertation participates in the ongoing conversations on the theory of the novel and points to the need to study the genre as sensitive to both global currents and local circumstances.

ISBN: 9781321781953Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

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