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An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s “Melancholy”
Abstract
The present study explores Anne Kingsmill Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s “Melancholy” in terms of prolonged melancholia that afflicts the creative psyche of the authors. The study aims to analyse melancholic moods of the speakers represented through self-narratives, which serve as a curative method and means of expression. Based on the critical terminologies offered by Robert Burton and Julia Kristeva, the study argues that the two melancholic poems by Finch and Ali are comparable in terms of melancholic experience and that the melancholic states of the authors renovate into a milder form of melancholia, eventually indicating an aesthetic transformation through discursive poiesis. The study shows that the personas directly or indirectly try to overcome the state of objectless and causeless despondency by producing poetic discourse, and both melancholic cases are theoretically subject to an aesthetic transformation, but melancholia is observed to linger on the present cases. The paper concludes that the authors attempt to cure melancholia through poetic expression, and the very poems signpost a temporal possibility of repaired connection with language. Yet, the speakers are seen caught up in the disease in the last lines indicating retreat rather than treatment.
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References
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Literary Studies
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
June 29, 2021
Submission Date
December 12, 2020
Acceptance Date
-
Published in Issue
Year 2021 Volume: 15 Number: 1
APA
Çıraklı, M. Z., & Yemez, Ö. (2021). An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s “Melancholy”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 15(1), 63-78. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.959356
AMA
1.Çıraklı MZ, Yemez Ö. An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s “Melancholy.” CUJHSS. 2021;15(1):63-78. doi:10.47777/cankujhss.959356
Chicago
Çıraklı, Mustafa Zeki, and Öznur Yemez. 2021. “An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s ‘Melancholy’”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 15 (1): 63-78. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.959356.
EndNote
Çıraklı MZ, Yemez Ö (June 1, 2021) An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s “Melancholy”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 15 1 63–78.
IEEE
[1]M. Z. Çıraklı and Ö. Yemez, “An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s ‘Melancholy’”, CUJHSS, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 63–78, June 2021, doi: 10.47777/cankujhss.959356.
ISNAD
Çıraklı, Mustafa Zeki - Yemez, Öznur. “An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s ‘Melancholy’”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 15/1 (June 1, 2021): 63-78. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.959356.
JAMA
1.Çıraklı MZ, Yemez Ö. An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s “Melancholy”. CUJHSS. 2021;15:63–78.
MLA
Çıraklı, Mustafa Zeki, and Öznur Yemez. “An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s ‘Melancholy’”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 1, June 2021, pp. 63-78, doi:10.47777/cankujhss.959356.
Vancouver
1.Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Öznur Yemez. An Address to the Old Inveterate Foe: A Comparative Reading of Anne Finch’s “Ardelia to Melancholy” and Sabahattin Ali’s “Melancholy”. CUJHSS. 2021 Jun. 1;15(1):63-78. doi:10.47777/cankujhss.959356