Abstract
It is also possible to present the consciousness of a character in first person narratives. Unlike third-person narratives, in first-person narratives, narrators can only present their own content of consciousness. Different techniques are used for this. In this study, using the terminology in Dorrit Cohn's work named Transparent Minds, it was tried to draw the boundaries of the presentation of consciousness in first person narratives. However, the focus is on retrospective techniques. In this context, narrators use two basic perspectives in returning to the past: they analyze and interpret the past from their position in discourse time, or they do not declare any judgment or interpretation they have acquired later. Within this framework, two opposing poles have been identified in the Turkish stories of the Republican period with the stories taken from Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and Sait Faik Abasıyanık. Although the tradition of interpretation and analysis, represented by Tanpınar, is generally prevalent in the stories of the Republican period, some avant-garde attempts can be encountered, as in Sait Faik. The stories are useful both in terms of exemplifying the theoretical framework drawn by Cohn, as they are typical examples, and they will serve to show the possibilities of consciousness presentation in Republican storytelling.