Abstract
THE CULTURAL SEPARATION OF MALE TEENS IN THE CLASSICAL PERIOD LAST MESNEVI EXAMPLES IN TURKISH LITERATURE AND TANZİMAT NOVEL
This article to provide a type-centered comparison between the novels of the Tanzimat period and some classical texts which are regarded as the beginning of the modernization process of Turkish literature. In this research, especially rhetoric discord and non-tradition are discussed between the last important mesnevi’s of Divan poetry as a classical text and male types in Tanzimat novel. Considering that literature has a continuing tradition of continuing traditional discourse, it also provides an unthinkable framework for the type of fiction that confronts us in the first novels of our modern literature. Therefore, the types in the mesnevi related to the last period of classical poetry with the texts of the Tanzimat period are not only the relation between tradition and literary discourse, but also the comparison of culture, politics and society. Taking into account the point of criticism that classical poetry is far from society, it is thoughtful in classical poetry point that the types and characters in the Tanzimat novel are culturally contradictory. Therefore, this study is aimed at questioning the ties of the narrative texts belonging to two different literary periods to the societies in which they are related in cultural and political terms.
Keywords
Novel, mesnevi, type, culture, modernization