Üç Edebi Eser, Üç Ülke, Modernliğin Üç Farklı Düzeyi

Yıl 2010, Cilt: 9 Sayı: 3, 553 - 580, 01.12.2010

Yücel Karadaş

Öz

Edebiyat, toplumsal hayatın gerçekliğini anlamamıza olanak tanıyan önemli alanlardan biridir. Bu çalışmamda üç farklı ülkeden yazarın eserlerinden hareket ederek üç ülkenin modernleşme süreçleri, bu süreçlerin yarattığı toplumsal, siyasal ve sınıfsal gerilimler üzerine çıkarsama yapılmaya çalışılacaktır

Anahtar Kelimeler

Modenleşme, kapitalizm, uygarlık, edebiyat, sınıf, aristokrasi, burjuva, mimari

Three Literary Works, Three Countries, Three Dimensions of Modernity

Öz

This article studies three literary works—two dramatic works and a novel—in terms of the modernization processes in three countries, of the class relationships to which these processes gave rise, the classes lost or gained power and of the character types arisen in these processes. These three countries are Turkey, Russia and England. And the three literary works are Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu‘s Kiralik Konak from Turkish literature, Chekhov‘s The Cherry Orchard from Russian literature and Bernard Shaw‘s Heartbreak House from English literature. During the selection of the first two works the facts that the modernization processes in Turkey and Russia began around the same time and that there were certain wars and different kinds of relationship between the two countries in the last two centuries of the Ottoman Empire were taken into consideration. Moving from this point, we aim to compare and contrast the Turkish-Ottoman modernization with the modernization process in Russia. On the other hand, the reason behind the selection of Heartbreak House is that it is thought that a comparison or a contrast with an industrialized country—England—that completed its modernization in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries would facilitate understanding the different levels of modernization experienced in Turkey and Russia at the time. Thus, the article analyzes the abovementioned works from a sociological perspective to arrive at some conclusion about the modernization processes and socio-economical upheavals in three countries

Anahtar Kelimeler

Modernity, capitalism, civilization, literature, class, aristocracy, bourgeois, architecture