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                                                                                    <journal-title>Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2147-4958</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2147-4419</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Dokuz Eylul University</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.69878/deuefad.1832740</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>North American Language, Literature and Culture</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Kuzey Amerika Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Kültürleri</subject>
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                                    <trans-title>“A”DA VAR OLMAK: KIZIL DAMGA&#039;NIN FENOMENOLOJİK OKUMASI</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>BEING IN “A”: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL READING OF THE SCARLET LETTER</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-802X</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Koparanoğlu Artuç</surname>
                                    <given-names>Hafize Gül</given-names>
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                                                                    <aff>AYDIN ADNAN MENDERES ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260429">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>29</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
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                                        <volume>13</volume>
                                        <issue>1</issue>
                                        <fpage>342</fpage>
                                        <lpage>353</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20251130">
                        <day>11</day>
                        <month>30</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260319">
                        <day>03</day>
                        <month>19</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2011, Dokuz Eylül University Journal of Humanities</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2011</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Dokuz Eylül University Journal of Humanities</copyright-holder>
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                            <p>Bu makale, Nathaniel Hawthorne&#039;un Kızıl Damga adlı eserini Heidegger&#039;in fenomenolojik çerçevesi üzerinden yeniden ele almaktadır. Hester Prynne&#039;in varoluşsal durumuna odaklanan çalışma, onun “A&#039;da varoluşunu”, atılmışlık, kamusal yorumlama ve dünyasının sembolik yapıları tarafından şekillendirilen bir Dasein biçimi olarak kavramsallaştırmaktadır. Heidegger&#039;in Varlık, özgünlük ve kamusal alanın diktatörlüğü kavramlarını Dimmesdale, Chillingworth ve Pearl dahil olmak üzere romanın ana karakterlerine genişleterek, makale Hawthorne&#039;un anlatısının, nasıl özgün benliğin sistematik olarak kısıtlandığı katı bir ontolojik ortam inşa ettiğini göstermektedir. 17. bölümdeki önemli karşılaşmayı yakından inceleyerek, analiz görünüş, anlam ve kimliğin birbirine nasıl çöktüğünü gösterir ve Puritan topluluğunun ahlaki kimliği sabitleyen ve varoluşsal olasılıkları sınırlayan egemen Varlık “söyleyicisi” olduğunu ortaya çıkarır. Sonuç olarak, bu makale, Kızıl Damga’nın fenomenolojik açıklığa direnmesine rağmen, bu direnişin analitik olarak üretken hale geldiğini savunur: roman, bireysel Varlık ile otoriter anlam yaratma arasındaki gerilimleri ortaya çıkararak, fenomenolojik eleştirinin kapasitelerini test eder ve aydınlatır.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>This essay reconsiders Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter through a Heideggerian phenomenological framework. Focusing on the existential condition of Hester Prynne, the study conceptualizes her “being in A” as a mode of Dasein shaped by thrownness, public interpretation, and the symbolic structures of her world. By extending Heidegger’s notions of Being, authenticity, becoming, and the dictatorship of the public realm across the novel’s major characters—including Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and Pearl—the essay demonstrates how Hawthorne’s narrative constructs a rigid ontological environment in which authentic self-disclosure is systematically constrained. Through a close reading of the pivotal encounter in Chapter 17, the analysis shows how appearance, meaning, and identity collapse into one another, revealing the Puritan community as the dominant “sayer” of Being that fixes moral identity and limits existential possibilities. Ultimately, the essay argues that while The Scarlet Letter resists phenomenological openness, this resistance becomes analytically productive: the novel exposes the tensions between individual Being and authoritarian meaning-making, thereby testing and illuminating the capacities of phenomenological criticism itself.</p></abstract>
                                                                                    
            
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                                                    <kwd>Being</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Heidegger</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  The Scarlet Letter</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  American novel.</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Varlık</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Heidegger</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Kızıl Damga</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Amerikan Romanı.</kwd>
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