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First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception

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First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception

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This article examines how a Turkish ‘classics’ edition can structure reception through peritextual design. Using the İletişim Klasikleri’s 2019 edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a case study, it argues that this edition constructs an ‘authority architecture’: a sequenced threshold that allocates interpretive power, frames authorship, and produces canonicity. Methodologically, the article combines close reading with feminist critical discourse-analytic attention to voice allocation, epistemic stance (hedges, rumour markers, evaluative verdicts), and nomination/relational naming across the cover, author biography and chronology, Murat Belge’s preface, and Walter Scott’s afterword. The analysis shows that the cover’s authority line (with Belge’s preface and Scott’s afterword) installs male, allographic voices as the first and last interpretive anchors, borrowing prestige to authorize ‘proper’ reading as part of classics-series value. While the peritexts appear to canonize Shelley, they simultaneously constrain her authorial authority by scripting her life through romance-tragedy and certification frames and by managing attribution politics through calibrated uncertainty. From a feminist perspective, the edition does not activate the interpretive resources made available by its own starting configuration (a woman author, a woman translator, and a reception history shaped by gendered doubt). I conceptualize this pattern as paratextual guardianship and propose it as a portable analytic for tracking gendered canonization in classics publishing in Turkey and beyond.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Çeviri ve Yorum Çalışmaları

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

24 Temmuz 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

12 Ocak 2026

Kabul Tarihi

27 Nisan 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Sayı: 40

Kaynak Göster

APA
Süren, M. S. (2026). First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception. Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi, 40, 202-221. https://doi.org/10.37599/ceviri.1861853
AMA
1.Süren MS. First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception. Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi. 2026;(40):202-221. doi:10.37599/ceviri.1861853
Chicago
Süren, Merve Sevtap. 2026. “First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception”. Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi, sy 40: 202-21. https://doi.org/10.37599/ceviri.1861853.
EndNote
Süren MS (01 Temmuz 2026) First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception. Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi 40 202–221.
IEEE
[1]M. S. Süren, “First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception”, Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi, sy 40, ss. 202–221, Tem. 2026, doi: 10.37599/ceviri.1861853.
ISNAD
Süren, Merve Sevtap. “First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception”. Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi. 40 (01 Temmuz 2026): 202-221. https://doi.org/10.37599/ceviri.1861853.
JAMA
1.Süren MS. First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception. Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi. 2026;:202–221.
MLA
Süren, Merve Sevtap. “First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception”. Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi, sy 40, Temmuz 2026, ss. 202-21, doi:10.37599/ceviri.1861853.
Vancouver
1.Merve Sevtap Süren. First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception. Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi. 01 Temmuz 2026;(40):202-21. doi:10.37599/ceviri.1861853