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Title: An ecocritical reading of representations of nature in modern Turkish novel

 

Vol. 6, 2019, pp. 7-17.

DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v06.001

 

Author: N. Berrin Aksoy

About the author: Professor Nüzhet Berrin Aksoy, PhD received her BA, MA and PhD from the Department of English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey. Professor Aksoy worked in the Department of Translation/Interpretation at Hacettepe University as a Junior and Senior lecturer and as department chair until she took an early retirement in 2007 and started to work as senior lecturer and department chair in the department of English Translation and Interpretation at Atılım University. Professor Aksoy has researched extensively in the fields of translation studies, English literature, cultural studies and comparative literary studies and published in Internationally-indexed publications such as Babel, and META, Annals of the Ovidius University, Lyuboslovie and FLT of University of Shumen as well as many national refereed journals. Professor Aksoy has also presented papers at International Congresses as invited and key-note speaker. Professor Aksoy is fluent in English and French.

e-mail: berrin.aksoy@atilim.edu.tr

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5716-1962

 

Citation (APA style): Aksoy, N. B. (2019). An ecocritical reading of representations of nature in modern Turkish novel. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 6, 7-17. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v06.001

 

Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2019/vol6/SILC_2019_%20Vol%206_007-017_11.pdf

 

Abstract: Modern Turkish novel developed in the 19th century, greatly inspired by the translations of foreign models. Since then, it has undergone a gradual transformation in terms of style, subject matter and innovative genres and modes of expression thanks to the potentials provided by local cultural and traditional literary sources. Of those, people’s ballads, court poetry and folkstories and songs which have celebrated the geographical, regional and natural characteristics of the homeland and which portrayed the forms of a relationship between the human and nature lie deep in the cultural memory and consciousness of the people. Such a literary climate enables novelists to weave several representations of this relationship between human and nature as a dominating metaphor or motif in their work. In this paper, I will trace the manifestations of this relationship and their artistic and literary functions in the novel Kuyucaklı Yusuf (Yusuf from Kuyucak) by Sabahattin Ali, and Ortadirek (The Wind from the Plain) by Yaşar Kemal.

Key words: ecocriticism, Kuyucaklı Yusuf, Ortadirek, modern Turkish novel, human and nature

 

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