Research Article

Examination of Borges' Story of "Death and the Compass" in Terms of Imagination

Volume: 4 Number: 2 December 15, 2021
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Examination of Borges' Story of "Death and the Compass" in Terms of Imagination

Abstract

In this article, the short story Death and Compass by Jorge Luis Borges is analyzed based on Carl G. Jung’s theory “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious” and French author Gilbert Durand’s theory “The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary.” In the beginning, a brief introduction to the short story was given along with how it was translated to Turkish audience. Secondly, upon laying the grounds of both theories, the protagonist Erik Lönnrot is associated with the “Diurnal Order” in Durand’s theory. Diurnal features such as “polemical antithesis”, “autistic withdrawal”, “schizomorphic structure”, and “geometrism” (terms, which were cited by him from several psychiatrists’ works) are observed in the protagonist Erik Lönnrot. After analyzing the character, in a similarly way, the mansion in the story was also studied based on the same order since that space also embraces geometry, symmetry, and shares a continuum with linear timeline. The objects in and outside of the mansion have also been examined with regards to the symbolic meanings as mentioned by the French theoretician so that the isotopes of notions time and death could be determined in that particular space. The statues of mythological figures such as Diana, Hermes, and Janus in that mansion were also a topic of research to understand the relation between the space and characters. In the last section of the study, Jung’s “Self” archetype, its symbolic representations, and the corresponding elements in the story have been explored. Having done his research on Borges’ short story based on psychatric and imaginary theories, the author of this article has come up with the idea that limitless findings could be discovered from Borges’ short stories by other authors who base their research on these theories, and in the meantime, he expects that his research contributes to the research field and to the ones that are connected to it.

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Yardımları için İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi İspanyol Dili ve Edebiyatı öğretim görevlisi Sn. Doç. Dr. Mehmet İlgürel hocama teşekkürü borç bilirim.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Literary Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 15, 2021

Submission Date

August 26, 2021

Acceptance Date

September 29, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 4 Number: 2

APA
Öztürk, Ö. (2021). Borges’in “Ölüm ve Pusula” Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 4(2), 281-289. https://doi.org/10.47948/efad.987273
AMA
1.Öztürk Ö. Borges’in “Ölüm ve Pusula” Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi. KMU EFAD. 2021;4(2):281-289. doi:10.47948/efad.987273
Chicago
Öztürk, Özgür. 2021. “Borges’in ‘Ölüm Ve Pusula’ Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 4 (2): 281-89. https://doi.org/10.47948/efad.987273.
EndNote
Öztürk Ö (December 1, 2021) Borges’in “Ölüm ve Pusula” Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 4 2 281–289.
IEEE
[1]Ö. Öztürk, “Borges’in ‘Ölüm ve Pusula’ Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi”, KMU EFAD, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 281–289, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.47948/efad.987273.
ISNAD
Öztürk, Özgür. “Borges’in ‘Ölüm Ve Pusula’ Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 4/2 (December 1, 2021): 281-289. https://doi.org/10.47948/efad.987273.
JAMA
1.Öztürk Ö. Borges’in “Ölüm ve Pusula” Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi. KMU EFAD. 2021;4:281–289.
MLA
Öztürk, Özgür. “Borges’in ‘Ölüm Ve Pusula’ Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 4, no. 2, Dec. 2021, pp. 281-9, doi:10.47948/efad.987273.
Vancouver
1.Özgür Öztürk. Borges’in “Ölüm ve Pusula” Öyküsünün İmgelem Kuramı Açısından İncelenmesi. KMU EFAD. 2021 Dec. 1;4(2):281-9. doi:10.47948/efad.987273

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