The Social and Literary Representation of Medieval Turkish and Western Women through Three Cult Classic Works

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The Social and Literary Representation of Medieval Turkish and Western Women through Three Cult Classic Works

Yazarlar:

Nazan Yıldız

Yayıncı:

Selcuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Çalışmalar

Dergi:

Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi Issue 62, pp.179-198

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

8/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001325432

pISSN:

1300-5766

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 Epics, embracing unmatched material on a nations existence, life, and culture, embody that nations identity as carriers of history and culture. The Book of Dede Korkut, a Turkish epic acknowledged as a classic text characterising the Turkish realm, has been treated in numerous ways by copious researchers. This analysis has also included the woman question, an everlasting concern from the birth of humanity to the present. Alongside the studies on The Book of Dede Korkut regarding the role and significance of Turkish women in society, the comparative studies concerning Western women largely focus on the British Beowulf, a classic epic of Western literature, just because it is an epic even though it chronologically deals with happenings much earlier than that of Dede Korkut. At the time when the happenings in Dede Korkut took shape and were penned; however, epics were replaced by romances in Western literature. The comparison of The Book of Dede Korkut to its contemporaries, romances, has not been carried out yet. Thereby, while comparing the image of the Turkish woman depicted in Dede Korkut to the image of the Western woman in Western literature, examining romance women as their Western contemporaries undoubtedly will contribute to the field. Accordingly, in this article, the place and stature of Medieval Turkish and Western Women in society are comparatively scrutinised in a broad social and literary context via three cult classic works of Turkish and Western literature: The Book of Dede Korkut, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Arthurs Death.

 Epics, embracing unmatched material on a nations existence, life, and culture, embody that nations identity as carriers of history and culture. The Book of Dede Korkut, a Turkish epic acknowledged as a classic text characterising the Turkish realm, has been treated in numerous ways by copious researchers. This analysis has also included the woman question, an everlasting concern from the birth of humanity to the present. Alongside the studies on The Book of Dede Korkut regarding the role and significance of Turkish women in society, the comparative studies concerning Western women largely focus on the British Beowulf, a classic epic of Western literature, just because it is an epic even though it chronologically deals with happenings much earlier than that of Dede Korkut. At the time when the happenings in Dede Korkut took shape and were penned; however, epics were replaced by romances in Western literature. The comparison of The Book of Dede Korkut to its contemporaries, romances, has not been carried out yet. Thereby, while comparing the image of the Turkish woman depicted in Dede Korkut to the image of the Western woman in Western literature, examining romance women as their Western contemporaries undoubtedly will contribute to the field. Accordingly, in this article, the place and stature of Medieval Turkish and Western Women in society are comparatively scrutinised in a broad social and literary context via three cult classic works of Turkish and Western literature: The Book of Dede Korkut, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Arthurs Death.

 Epics, embracing unmatched material on a nations existence, life, and culture, embody that nations identity as carriers of history and culture. The Book of Dede Korkut, a Turkish epic acknowledged as a classic text characterising the Turkish realm, has been treated in numerous ways by copious researchers. This analysis has also included the woman question, an everlasting concern from the birth of humanity to the present. Alongside the studies on The Book of Dede Korkut regarding the role and significance of Turkish women in society, the comparative studies concerning Western women largely focus on the British Beowulf, a classic epic of Western literature, just because it is an epic even though it chronologically deals with happenings much earlier than that of Dede Korkut. At the time when the happenings in Dede Korkut took shape and were penned; however, epics were replaced by romances in Western literature. The comparison of The Book of Dede Korkut to its contemporaries, romances, has not been carried out yet. Thereby, while comparing the image of the Turkish woman depicted in Dede Korkut to the image of the Western woman in Western literature, examining romance women as their Western contemporaries undoubtedly will contribute to the field. Accordingly, in this article, the place and stature of Medieval Turkish and Western Women in society are comparatively scrutinised in a broad social and literary context via three cult classic works of Turkish and Western literature: The Book of Dede Korkut, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Arthurs Death.

 Bir milletin varoluşu, yaşamı ve kültürü üzerine eşsiz bilgiler içeren destanlar hem tarih hem de kültürün taşıyıcıları olarak aynı zamanda o milletin kimliğini temsil ederler. Türk Dünyasını yansıtan kült bir destan olarak kabul edilen Dede Korkut Kitabı pek çok araştırmacı tarafından farklı yönleriyle ele alınmış ve bu incelemede insanlığın doğuşundan günümüze kadar uzanan kadın sorunu da yerini almıştır. Türk kadınının toplumdaki rolü ve önemi bağlamında Dede Korkut Kitabı üzerinden yapılan çalışmaların yanı sıra Batılı kadın ile yapılan karşılaştırmalı çalışmalarda Batı edebiyatının kült destanlarından kronolojik olarak Dede Korkuttan çok daha önce gerçekleşen olayları konu edinmesine rağmen bir destan örneği olması sebebiyle İngiliz destanı Beowulfa odaklanan incelemeler yoğunluktadır. Hâlbuki Dede Korkuttaki olayların resmedildiği ve kaleme alındığı zamanda Batı edebiyatında destanların yerini romanslar almıştır. Dede Korkut Kitabının çağdaşı romanslar ile karşılaştırılması ise henüz yapılmamıştır. Bu doğrultuda Dede Korkutta resmedilen Türk kadını imgesinin Batı edebiyatındaki Batılı kadını imgesi ile karşılaştırmasını yaparken batılı çağdaşları romans kadınlarını irdelemenin alana katkı sağlayacağı muhakkaktır. Bu makalede Orta Çağ Türk ve Batılı Kadının toplumdaki yeri ve önemi Türk ve Batı edebiyatının üç kült eseri olan Dede Korkut Hikâyeleri, Sir Gawain ve Yeşil Şövalye, ve Arthurun Ölümü metinleri üzerinden geniş bir sosyal ve edebi çerçevede karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmiştir.

Makale detayları

The Social and Literary Representation of Medieval Turkish and Western Women through Three Cult Classic Works

Yazarlar:

Nazan Yıldız

Yayıncı:

Selcuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Çalışmalar

Dergi:

Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi Issue 62, pp.179-198

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

8/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001325432

pISSN:

1300-5766

Turkish woman

The Book of Dede Korkut

Western woman

Medieval woman

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Death of Arthur.Türk Kadını

Dede Korkut Hikayeleri

Batılı Kadın

Sir Gawain ve Yeşil Şövalye

Arthur'un Ölümü

Ortaçağ Kadını

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Nazan Yıldız

Yayıncı: Selcuk University

Ana Başlıklar: Edebi Çalışmalar

Dergi: Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi Issue 62, pp.179-198

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 8/2024

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001325432

pISSN: 1300-5766

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Nazan Yıldız

Yayıncı:

Selcuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Çalışmalar

Dergi:

Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi Issue 62, pp.179-198

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

8/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001325432

pISSN:

1300-5766