Abstract
MEETING AND BALANCE: THE PATRONAGE OF NARRATIVE ELEMENTS IN THE NOVELS DÜRDANE HANIM AND İNTİBAH
This study evaluates the perception of novel in Tanzimat era taking into consideration the authors’ “social engineering” mission at that time which they admit in order to prepare and educate the society about the new impact area when the society was exposed to the Western influence because of the political, psychological and sociological conditions of the period. Moreover, it investigates the accomplishment of concerning mission through the third-person singular whom the narrator is gathered to/transforms into. As materials for this article, the novels Dürdane Hanım by Ahmet Mithat Efendi and İntibah by Namık Kemal are chosen. Throughout the article, by dealing with the narrators’ directings of the audience from the fictive world and the reasons of of this direction, it is manifested that narrative elements and depictions in Tanzimat novels serve the purpose of educating and directing the society. Thus, in setting of social identity, the role of the initial novels in Turkish literature will be examined.
Keywords
Dürdane Hanım, İntibah, narrator, narrative element, depiction, narrative techniques, Tan