Cockroach and Transformation Motifs in Kafka’s Transformation and Lispector’s The Passion according to G.H.

Funda Kızıler Emer; İnci Aras

Makale detayları

Cockroach and Transformation Motifs in Kafka’s Transformation and Lispector’s The Passion according to G.H.

Yazarlar:

Funda Kızıler Emer | İnci Aras

Yayıncı:

Selcuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

Dünya Dilleri | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer) | Karşılaştırmalı Dil Çalışmaları | Dil Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Dergi:

Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi Issue 52, pp.119-136

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001333828

pISSN:

2458-908X

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Özet:

 In this study, cockroach and transformation as two common motifs in two prose texts by two competent representatives of world literature, one Kafka a witness to the brutality of World War I, and the other Lispector to World War II, were analyzed comparatively. In Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis, the male main character Gregor Samsa finds himself transformed into a gigantic cockroach one morning in his bed. The female main character in Clarice Lispectors The Passion According to G.H., on the other hand, eats a cockroach she encounters when she enters a servants room in her house that she has not entered for a long time. In Kafkas text, the main characters transformation takes place with his body turning into a cockroach in its entirety, while in Lispectors text, this transformation occurs with the main character taking the cockroach, which symbolizes everything she has alienated and excluded from life, into her own body, that is, by eating it. The study aims to determine how and for what purpose these motifs, which establish a strong dialogic relationship between the two texts, are used by the authors and to reveal the common and different aspects between them. In the analysis carried out for this purpose, first, the general commonalities between the texts were mentioned, and then the dialogic relationship between the texts was examined in depth over the individual analysis of each text in terms of these similar or different elements. The cockroach and transformation motifs, which bring together both texts written in the warlike and chaotic world of the 20th century around a certain point, were deciphered with an eclectic and plural reading method that primarily makes use of critical protocols both inherent in and transcendent to the text, namely comparison and intertextual analysis.

 In this study, cockroach and transformation as two common motifs in two prose texts by two competent representatives of world literature, one Kafka a witness to the brutality of World War I, and the other Lispector to World War II, were analyzed comparatively. In Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis, the male main character Gregor Samsa finds himself transformed into a gigantic cockroach one morning in his bed. The female main character in Clarice Lispectors The Passion According to G.H., on the other hand, eats a cockroach she encounters when she enters a servants room in her house that she has not entered for a long time. In Kafkas text, the main characters transformation takes place with his body turning into a cockroach in its entirety, while in Lispectors text, this transformation occurs with the main character taking the cockroach, which symbolizes everything she has alienated and excluded from life, into her own body, that is, by eating it. The study aims to determine how and for what purpose these motifs, which establish a strong dialogic relationship between the two texts, are used by the authors and to reveal the common and different aspects between them. In the analysis carried out for this purpose, first, the general commonalities between the texts were mentioned, and then the dialogic relationship between the texts was examined in depth over the individual analysis of each text in terms of these similar or different elements. The cockroach and transformation motifs, which bring together both texts written in the warlike and chaotic world of the 20th century around a certain point, were deciphered with an eclectic and plural reading method that primarily makes use of critical protocols both inherent in and transcendent to the text, namely comparison and intertextual analysis.

 In this study, cockroach and transformation as two common motifs in two prose texts by two competent representatives of world literature, one Kafka a witness to the brutality of World War I, and the other Lispector to World War II, were analyzed comparatively. In Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis, the male main character Gregor Samsa finds himself transformed into a gigantic cockroach one morning in his bed. The female main character in Clarice Lispectors The Passion According to G.H., on the other hand, eats a cockroach she encounters when she enters a servants room in her house that she has not entered for a long time. In Kafkas text, the main characters transformation takes place with his body turning into a cockroach in its entirety, while in Lispectors text, this transformation occurs with the main character taking the cockroach, which symbolizes everything she has alienated and excluded from life, into her own body, that is, by eating it. The study aims to determine how and for what purpose these motifs, which establish a strong dialogic relationship between the two texts, are used by the authors and to reveal the common and different aspects between them. In the analysis carried out for this purpose, first, the general commonalities between the texts were mentioned, and then the dialogic relationship between the texts was examined in depth over the individual analysis of each text in terms of these similar or different elements. The cockroach and transformation motifs, which bring together both texts written in the warlike and chaotic world of the 20th century around a certain point, were deciphered with an eclectic and plural reading method that primarily makes use of critical protocols both inherent in and transcendent to the text, namely comparison and intertextual analysis.

 Bu çalışmada, biri Kafka I. Dünya Savaşının diğeri Lispector II. Dünya Savaşının vahşetine tanık olmuş, dünya edebiyatının iki yetkin temsilcisinin iki düzyazı metnindeki ortak hamamböceği ve dönüşüm motifleri karşılaştırmalı olarak analiz edilmiştir. Franz Kafkanın Dönüşümünde erkek ana figür Gregor Samsa, bir sabah yatağında kendisini devcileyin bir hamamböceğine dönüşmüş bir halde bulur. Clarice Lispectorun G.H.nin Çilesi adlı metnindeki kadın ana figür ise, bir gün evinde uzun süredir girmediği hizmetçi odasına girdiğinde karşılaştığı bir hamamböceğini yer. Kafkanın metninde ana figürün dönüşümü, bedeninin topyekûn bir hamamböceğine dönüşmesiyle gerçekleşirken, Lispectorun metninde bu dönüşüm; ana figürün, ötekileştirerek yaşamdan dışladığı her şeyi simgeleyen hamamböceğini, kendi bedeninin içine almasıyla, yani onu yemesiyle gerçekleşir. Çalışmanın amacı, her iki metin arasında güçlü bir diyalojik ilişki kuran bu motiflerin yazarlar tarafından nasıl ve hangi amaçla kullanıldığını tespit ederek aralarındaki ortak ve farklı yönleri ortaya koymaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda gerçekleştirilen analizde, önce metinler arasındaki genel ortaklıklara değinilmiş, ardından metinlerin teker teker analizi üzerinden, bu ortaklık benzerlik ya da farklılık unsurları bakımından metinler arasındaki diyalojik ilişki daha derinlemesine incelenmiştir. 20. yüzyılın savaşçıl ve kaotik dünyasında kaleme alınmış olan her iki metni ortak bir noktada buluşturan hamamböceği ve dönüşüm motifleri; karşılaştırma ve metinlerarasılık yöntemleri başta olmak üzere metne içkin ve metni aşkın eleştiri yöntemlerinden yararlanılan eklektik bir çoğul okuma yöntemiyle çözümlenmiştir.

Makale detayları

Cockroach and Transformation Motifs in Kafka’s Transformation and Lispector’s The Passion according to G.H.

Yazarlar:

Funda Kızıler Emer | İnci Aras

Yayıncı:

Selcuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

Dünya Dilleri | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer) | Karşılaştırmalı Dil Çalışmaları | Dil Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Dergi:

Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi Issue 52, pp.119-136

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001333828

pISSN:

2458-908X

Franz Kafka

Clarice Lispector

The Transformation

The Passion According to G.H.

cockroachFranz Kafka

Clarice Lispector

Dönüşüm

G.H.nin Çilesi

hamamböceği

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Funda Kızıler Emer | İnci Aras

Yayıncı: Selcuk University

Ana Başlıklar: Dünya Dilleri | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer) | Karşılaştırmalı Dil Çalışmaları | Dil Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Dergi: Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi Issue 52, pp.119-136

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2024

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001333828

pISSN: 2458-908X

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Funda Kızıler Emer | İnci Aras

Yayıncı:

Selcuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

Dünya Dilleri | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer) | Karşılaştırmalı Dil Çalışmaları | Dil Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Dergi:

Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi Issue 52, pp.119-136

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001333828

pISSN:

2458-908X