TDE323

School of Humanities \ Turkish Language and Literature

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Compulsory

Turkish

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Turkish Language and Literature Undergraduate Program

In this course, historical and social events, institutions, intellectual movements of the National Literature period, characteristic figures of these periods and their works will be introduced; poems selected from these works will be analyzed.

1. Kaplan, Mehmet, Şiir Tahlilleri 1, Dergah Yay, İst,1997
2. Enginün, İnci; Tanzimat'tan Cumhuriyete 1839-1923 Yeni Türk Edebiyatı, Dergah Yay, İst, 2013

The aim of this course is to introduce Turkish poetry that developed within the framework of National Literature and to ensure the examination of poems that reflect the mentality of the period.

1. Familiar with the novelists and short-story writers of the National Literature period and their works.
2. Familiar with the poets and their works of the National Literature period.
3. Learns to read and analyse key works from this period.

Week 1: Introduction to the course and general information about the course
What is ‘national literature’? Discussions on the concepts of ‘national’, ‘nationalist’ and ‘nationalism’, and the issue of the ‘national character’ of literature
Week 2: The boundaries of national literature, the general situation during the Second Constitutional Era, the need for a new identity, intellectual movements
Week 3: The Genç Kalemler magazine and the New Language Movement
Week 4: Ömer Seyfettin – *Ashab-ı Kehfimiz*
Reflections of the 1897 Turkish–Greek War in Turkish poetry
Week 5: Ömer Seyfettin – *Efruz Bey* (1919) and selected short stories
The Poetry of Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
Week 6: Halide Edib – *Yeni Turan* (1913) and selected stories from *Dağa Çıkan Kurt* (1922)
The Turkic Nationalist Movement in Turkish Literature and the Poetry of Ziya Gökalp
Week 7: Mid-term Exam
Week 8: Yakup Kadri – *Kiralık Konak* (1922) and selected stories from *Milli Savaş Hikayeleri*
Fecr-i Ati poetry, Neo-Hellenism, the Nayis
Week 9: Refik Halid – *A Face of Istanbul* (1920) and selected stories from *Stories of the Homeland* (1919)
Reflections of the Balkan Wars in Turkish Poetry
The poetry of Mehmet Akif
Week 10: Reşad Nuri – *The Thrush* (1922)
Reflections of the First World War in Turkish Poetry
Week 11: Ahmet Hikmet – *Gönül Hanım* (1920) and selected stories from *Waterfalls* (1922)
Poetry of the Armistice Period, the Dergâh magazine circle
Week 12: Müfide Ferid – Aydemir (1918)
A new interpretation of homeland and nationalism
Ziya Gökalp – The Principles of Turkism (1923)
General Assessment