Research Article

Differences Between Tradition and Modernity in Yenişehirli Avni Bey’s Mir’ât-ı Cünûn

Volume: 6 Number: 7 December 13, 2017
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Differences Between Tradition and Modernity in Yenişehirli Avni Bey’s Mir’ât-ı Cünûn

Abstract

 In this masnavi; Yenişehirli Avni Bey was in a mental hospital in his dream. He has been mentioned with humorous wording about 29 abnormal cases. In the hospital, there is a man who has been named as a “mad hortative”. He has been complained about lose tradition’s edge. He has been admitted to a sign of doomsday trendy breakthroughs for its period, such as eyeglass, kerchief, toothbrush; social breakthroughs such as modern army, covering woman’s hair with transparent headsquares. Another man is called “womaniser”. He has been gotten to court for his unsuccessful marriage and these has been told in a tittle in masnavi “Sebeb-i İmtid’ad-ı Da’vâ”. In this tittle, it has been mentioned that, music therapy’s inability, which is a traditional treatment, to cure rising generation. In this work, it will be viewed to a modern poet Yenişehirli Avni Bey’s point of view to his period and experiences in this time and how its influenced to Mir’ât-ı Cünûn. And it will be viewed to differences between tradition and modernity in Mir’ât-ı Cünûn and it will be see to this masnavi.

Keywords

Yenişehirli Avnî Bey,Mir’ât-ı Cünûn,Classical Turkish Literature in 19th century,Tradition-Modenity,Music Therapy

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APA
Yılmaz, G. A. (2017). Yenişehirli Avnî Bey’in Mir’ât-ı Cünûn’unda Gelenek-Yenilik Çatışması. İnsan Ve Toplum Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi, 6(7), 293-303. https://doi.org/10.15869/itobiad.365447