KONRAD, THE EXILED GOD

Number: 24 May 1, 2016
  • Bekir Zengin
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KONRAD, THE EXILED GOD

Abstract

The fundamental aim of this study is to put forward what humour is and the perception of humour in German literature in connection with Freud’s views about humour. It has been fashionable to define humour as an epigram. Such definitions of humour enable us to approach it from one perspective and reveal its just one aspect. Critics agree on the function of humour. It functions as something that facilitates to bear the ills of the difficulties in life and protects the self and completeness of the individual. Alfred Döblin, in his “Babylonische Wandrung” foreshadowing Döblin’s own exile in the forthcoming years, portrays a displaced and punished god, whom the author calls Konrad and who partly implies Marduk. Döblin deals with the process of humanization of this god wandering on earth from one city after another. In effect, god Konrad suffering from the punishment owing to the ills of his own governing and the harms that he gave to human beings in the world has his own tragedy. This study draws attention to the fact that the humorous situation in the novel is constituted by on the one hand the narrator’s putting the god in comic situations via irony and ridicule and on the other hand, Konrad has an inner battle against all the happenings to overcome his tragic situation. The study also touches upon the fact that Alfred Döblin extends the techniques in the modernist novel employed in his novel similar to today’s postmodern narrative techniques.

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Turkish

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Bekir Zengin This is me

Publication Date

May 1, 2016

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May 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Number: 24

APA
Zengin, B. (2016). KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 24, 45-57. https://izlik.org/JA47DK28YH
AMA
1.Zengin B. KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI. PAUSBED. 2016;(24):45-57. https://izlik.org/JA47DK28YH
Chicago
Zengin, Bekir. 2016. “KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, nos. 24: 45-57. https://izlik.org/JA47DK28YH.
EndNote
Zengin B (May 1, 2016) KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 24 45–57.
IEEE
[1]B. Zengin, “KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI”, PAUSBED, no. 24, pp. 45–57, May 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA47DK28YH
ISNAD
Zengin, Bekir. “KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 24 (May 1, 2016): 45-57. https://izlik.org/JA47DK28YH.
JAMA
1.Zengin B. KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI. PAUSBED. 2016;:45–57.
MLA
Zengin, Bekir. “KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 24, May 2016, pp. 45-57, https://izlik.org/JA47DK28YH.
Vancouver
1.Bekir Zengin. KONRAD, SÜRGÜNE GÖNDERİLEN TANRI. PAUSBED [Internet]. 2016 May 1;(24):45-57. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA47DK28YH
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