Abstract
A REVIEW OF BOSNIAN SABIT'S DERENAME MESNAVI IN TERMS OF CHARACTER REPRESENTATIONS
Representation is a concept that is constantly undergoing historical-social transformation and is still studied with an interdisciplinary approach today. The reception of literary representation has gained different socio-cultural dimensions and been given different meanings in the historical process. Literary works are cultural products with high representative power, and with these features, they provide important data to researchers in revealing social and cultural meanings. While studies that problematize the forms of literary representation reveal the meaning of the text, they also provide important data in the context of gender through the way male-female relations are reflected. The works of Bosnian Sabit (d. 1712), who is considered a poet who created his own style in classical Turkish literature, produced with different perspectives and approaches, constitute a wide range that is rich in diversity and content. Bosnian Sabit's Derename masnavi can be considered as a social and cultural indicator of the period in terms of its content and the way the characters are presented. Sabit is an author who contributes with his original style to the establishment of the traditional Turkish literature with the characters he chose in Derename and the way he presents the story. In this study, character representations in the Derename masnavi will be tried to be evaluated with a critical and analytical approach.
Keywords
Character represantation, Bosnian Sabit, Derename, Masnavi, Text analysis
