POSTMODERN ROMANDA KARAKTER: JOHN FOWLES'IN MANTISSA ROMANININ POSTMODERN KARAKTER BAĞLAMINDA İNCELENMESİ

Year 2017, Volume: 57 Issue: 2, 1000 - 1019, 01.01.2017

Mürüvvet Mira Pınar Dolaykaya

Abstract

The concept of character is quite a problematic term in postmodern ction since postmodern texts overtly subvert and transgress the conventions of characterization in the novels of previous ages. In relation to the paradoxical and ambiguous nature of postmodernism, character undergoes a radical transformation in postmodern ction, and it cannot be pinned down with regards to the conventions of characterization. The character in postmodern ction becomes a site where the ontological concerns of postmodernism that the text rests upon are reverberated. Thus, postmodern problematization of such contentious concepts as self, identity, essence, history writing, ction, and fact is carried out and presented through postmodern characterization in the novel genre. Deprived of characters in the conventional sense, postmodern ction can thus be claimed to establish its own conventions of characterization. Hence, this paper analyses John Fowles' Mantissa 1982 so as to discuss how postmodern ction utilizes characterization to reverberate certain issues problematized in postmodern context and hence puts forth its own character conventions.

Keywords

Postmodernism, Postmodern Novel, Postmodern Character, John Fowles, Mantissa

CHARACTERIZATION IN POSTMODERN NOVEL: ANALYSIS OF JOHN FOWLES' MANTISSA IN THE CONTEXT OF POSTMODERN CHARACTER

Abstract

Postmodern romanın önceki dönemlerde yazılan romanlardaki karakter geleneklerine karşı gelmesi ve bu gelenekleri yıkması nedeniyle postmodern edebiyatta karakter kavramı bir sorunsal teşkil etmektedir. Postmodernizmin çelişkili ve belirsiz doğasıyla ilişkili olarak, postmodern romanda karakter önemli ölçüde dönüşüme uğramakta ve alışılagelmiş karakter özellikleri dâhilinde tanımlanamamaktadır. Postmodern karakter, metnin postmodernizmin ortaya koyduğu ontolojik sorunları yansıttığı bir alan olarak ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu sebeple, postmodernizmin sorunsallaştırdığı özbenlik, kimlik, öz, tarih yazını, kurmaca ve gerçek gibi kavramlar postmodern romanda karakterler üzerinden tartışılmaktadır. Sonuç olarak geleneksel anlamda karakterden yoksun olan postmodern romanın kendi karakter geleneklerini ortaya koyduğu söylenebilir. Bu bağlamda bu makale John Fowles'ın Mantissa 1982 isimli romanını postmodern edebiyatın karakteri postmodernizmin sorunsallaştırdığı belli başlı meseleleri yansıtmak için nasıl kullandığı ve böylelikle kendi karakter geleneklerini nasıl ortaya koyduğunu tartışmak üzere inceleyecektir.

Keywords

Postmodernizm, Postmodern Roman, Postmodern Karakter, John Fowles, Mantissa

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