Çok Sesliliğin Ağında: Iris Murdoch’un Ağ Adlı Romanının Bakhtinsel İncelemesi

Year 2010, Volume: 50 Issue: 1, 67 - 82, 01.01.2010

Zeynep Z. Atayurt

Abstract

Iris Murdoch’un Ağ adlı romanı s ıklıkla romanın ele aldığı ahlaki ve felsefi konularla bağlantılı olarak incelenmiştir. Bu konuların kurmaca bir metinde ortaya konması kuşkusuz tartışmaya değer bir husustur, ancak bu konuların romanda nasıl, diğer bir deyişle hangi yollarla ifade edildiği aynı derecede önemlidir. Bu sebeple, bu çalışmada Murdoch’un romanında ele aldığı güçlü felsefi fikirleri nasıl ustalıkla harmanlayıp; dil, kuram ve gerçeklik üzerine çok yönlü bir tartışmaya olanak sağladığını incelenmektedir. Bu bağlamda, bu çalışmanın amacı, romandaki kişiler tarafından aktarılan felsefi görüş ve düşüncelerin ne şekilde çok sesli bir anlatım içinde işlendiğini irdelemek ve Bakhtin’in kuramsallaştırdığı söylesimsel diyalojik ilişkinin, romanda oluşan çoğulluğu incelemeye elverişli diyalektik bir çerçeve sunduğunu vurgulamaktır.

Keywords

Iris Murdoch, Ağ, Rastlantısallık, Solipsizm, Dil, Kuram, Bakhtin, Söylesimsel (Diyalojik) İlişki, Çok Sesli Roman

Under the Polyphony of Voices: A Bakhtinian Reading of Iris Murdoch’s under the Net

Abstract

Iris Murdoch’s highly-acclaimed novel Under the Net has often been studied in relation to the moral and philosophical issues that the novel raises. While the novel’s playful representation of these issues in the form of fiction is certainly significant, the question of how these issues are presented and voiced in the novel is equally noteworthy. Therefore, this study explores how Murdoch’s novel masterfully blends a multitude of philosophically compelling voices through which a multifaceted debate on the notions of language, theory and truth is rendered possible. Thus, the aim of this essay is to look into the various ways in which these voices, conveyed by the characters, are weaved together in a polyphonic narrative, and to argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic interrelation provides a dialectic frame to engage with the prevalent plurality constructed in the novel.

Keywords

Iris Murdoch, Under the Net, Contingency, Solipsism, Language, Theory, Bakhtin, Dialogic Interrelation, Polyphonic Novel

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