Humour in Turkish Literature
Nobel Yayınevi, Ankara, 2020
- Yayın Türü: Kitap / Mesleki Kitap
- Basım Tarihi: 2020
- Yayınevi: Nobel Yayınevi
- Basıldığı Şehir: Ankara
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Although Turkish culture has a unique sense of humor, humor culture has
changed with the change of space and culture. Therefore, we found it
appropriate to examine Turkish literature under the titles of Pre-Islamic
Turkish Literature, Turkish Folk Literature, Old Turkish Literature and New
Turkish Literature while addressing the adventure of humor in the history of
Turkish literature.
We have included the concepts of irony, parody and satire, which are
frequently used together with humor or as sub-types of humor in Western
literature in order to determine the effect of the Western sense of humor on
the Turkish literature’s sense of humor. While pointing to the
historical development of these concepts, we also tried to identify their
samples in the Turkish humor tradition. We tried to determine the
equivalents of these genres in the Turkish novel, which is on the verge of
innovation, by considering especially the literature of the Second
Constitutional Period, in which the Turkish culture was in touch with the West.
Therefore, we mentioned the changes of humor and the concepts related to humor
in the history of Turkish literature and during the Second Constitutional
Period, in which the influence of Western literature was strongly felt, the new
meanings that humor concept has gained. Therefore, we dealt with the author’s
purpose in using humor, the form that the author uses in creating humor and the
issues criticized through humor.
We also included a chapter on humor in English
literature to juxtapose the comic effect in English and Turkish literature.
This chapter on humor in English literature helps to envision the sense of
humor in Western tradition and see the similarities between English and Turkish
literary works in terms of comedy and humor.