Edebiyat, Coğrafya ve Uzam: Hardy’nin Yuvaya Dönüş Adlı Romanı

Year 2010, Volume: 50 Issue: 2, 207 - 220, 01.01.2010

M. Ayça Vurmay

Abstract

Bu çalışmada edebiyat, coğrafya ve uzam arasındaki ilişkiler irdelenmektedir. Örnek olarak, On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl İngiliz yazarı Thomas Hardy’nin Yuvaya Dönüş The Return of The Native adlı romanı çözümlenmektedir. Hardy’nin ‘yarıkurmaca, yarı gerçek’ Wessex coğrafyası bu ilişkiyi detaylarıyla ortaya koymak açısından önemlidir. Çalışmanın kuramsal çerçevesini, özellikle “uzamın üretilmesi” konusu ile ilgili coğrafya ve uzam kuramları, Gaston Bachelard, Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre ve Doreen Massey gibi kuramcıların konu ile ilgili görüşleri oluşturmaktadır. Yuvaya Dönüş’de bir yandan coğrafyanın ve uzamın insan yaşamı üzerindeki etkisi incelenirken, aynı zamanda uzamın bireyler tarafından farklı biçimlerde üretilmesi, algılanması ve kader ile uzam arasındaki ilişki irdelenmektedir. İncelemenin temel taşlarını, roman türüne ve bu romana özgü coğrafi unsurlar, ayrıca coğrafya olgusunun doğal olarak içerdiği öyküsel unsurlar oluşturmaktadır.

Keywords

Thomas Hardy, Coğrafya, Determinizm, Metinsellik, On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl, Trajedi, Uzam, Yuva

Literature, Geography and Space: Hardy’s the Return of the Native

Abstract

Taking the Nineteenth Century English novelist Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native as an example, this study explores the contingent relations between literature, geography and space. Hardy’s ‘half-fictional, half-real’ Wessex geography is crucial to discuss this relation. Theories on geography and space, mainly the “production of space”, and the views of theorists such as Gaston Bachelard, Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey form the theoretical frame of this study. The Return of The Native is studied with a view to understand the effect of geography and space on human life on the one hand, the production and reception of space by each individual in different ways and the relation between fate and geography on the other. Geographic and spatial elements peculiar to this novel and to the novel genre, and the narrative elements that the phenomenon of geography naturally involves form the foundation of this analysis.

Keywords

Thomas Hardy, Geography, Determinism, Textuality, Nineteenth Century, Tragedy, Space, Home

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