Gerçek nerede? Resimde mi?: Peter Ackroyd’un Chatterton adlı romanında sorunlu gerçekliğin temsili

Year 2021, Issue: 23, 924 - 934, 21.06.2021

Zeynep Rana Turgut

https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.954200

Abstract

Polisiye roman türü, yirminci yüzyılın ikinci yarısında postmodernizmin getirdiği tematik ve yapısal yeniliklerle birlikte köklü bir değişime uğrar. En tanınabilir değişiklikler çözümsüz sonuçsuz sonlardır ve soruşturulacak bir suç olmamasına rağmen bazı olaylarda dedektif rolünü üstlenmiş karakterlerin boşuna uğraştığı vakalar ve okuyucunun yeni atanan rolü, yani dedektif rolü olmuştur. Bu makalenin amacı, Peter Ackroyd'un Chatterton adlı romanını dedektif türünün değişen özellikleri açısından incelemektir. Chatterton, bu türe özgü tematik ve yapısal unsurların çeşitli kullanımına rağmen, saf bir dedektif kurgu örneği olarak tanımlanmamıştır. Ackroyd, polisiye kurgunun geleneksel bileşenlerini yazarının ihtiyaçlarına göre kullanır ve yeniden şekillendirir. Dolayısıyla bu makalenin odak noktası, Ackroyd'un Chatterton'daki geleneksel dedektif kurgusunu yeniden formüle etmesidir. Vurgu, geleneksel ve çağdaş polisiye romanları arasındaki yapısal ve tematik yakınlıklar ve farklılıklar üzerindedir. Analiz ise esas olarak gerçek ve gerçek olmayan algısının metinlerarası temsiline dayanmaktadır.

Keywords

Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton, postmodernism, polisiye kurgu, gerçek-gerçek olmayana karşı

Where is reality? Is It In the painting?: The representation of problematised reality in Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton

Abstract

The detective fiction genre undergoes a radical change along with the thematic and structural innovations brought about by postmodernism in the second half of the twentieth century. The most recognisable changes are inconclusive endings with no resolution; eager characters and vain engagement in certain incidents though there is no crime to be investigated, and the reader's newly assigned role i.e. that of the detective. The aim of this paper is to explore Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton with regard to the changing features of the detective genre. Chatterton is not labelled a pure example of detective fiction despite various use of thematic and structural elements exclusive to this genre. Ackroyd reshapes and employs the conventional components of detective fiction according to his authorial needs. Thus the focus of this paper is on Ackroyd’s reformulation of traditional detective fiction in Chatterton. The emphasis is on structural and thematic affinities and differences between traditional and contemporary detective novels. The analysis is mainly based on the intertextual representation of the perception of the real and the unreal.

Keywords

Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton, postmodernism, detective fiction, real vs unreal

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