The Stead of Intertextuality in Comparative Literature and an Intertextual Approach to Murathan Mungan’s Story ‘Dumrul Ile Azrail’ Cover Image

Karşilaştirmali Edebiyatta Metinlerarasiliğin Yeri Ve Murathan Mungan’in ‘Dumrul İle Azrail’ Hikâyesine Metinlerarasi Bir Yaklaşim
The Stead of Intertextuality in Comparative Literature and an Intertextual Approach to Murathan Mungan’s Story ‘Dumrul Ile Azrail’

Author(s): Medine Sivri, Selin Özkan
Subject(s): Short Story, Comparative Study of Literature, Turkish Literature, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: intertextuality; Postmodernism; Comparative Literature; Dumrul ile Azrail; Murathan Mungan; Yedi Kapılı Kırk Oda;

Summary/Abstract: Comparative literature is a science which compares the literary studies of different nations or the texts of the same nation in many ways like period, space, volume, subject, action-interaction, imagology, translation, mythology, reception, stylistic, etc.. The aim of this science is to look at its own literature in terms of quality and quantity to enrich it with the cultures of other nations, promote and disseminate its culture and literature to the other nations.While the texts are being written, they interact with the texts which were written before them and they carry their traces. A subject, a character, a sentence, which was written in the old text, can appear with a new meaning and new review in a new text. In this study,‘Dumrul ile Azrail’, a story in the book called ‘Yedi Kapılı Kırk Oda’ of Murathan Mungan, who is one of the postmodernist author of Turkish literature, will be examined with the method of intertextuality in the point of existence problem and in this context; the meaning and function of comparative literature will be studied. The reason of choosing Murathan Mungan’s story as a study work is author’s giving a place in his book to a story called ‘Dumrul ile Azrail’ which was rewritten for many times but this time with his new interpretation and point of view. Beside, the existence problem and its reason that the author wants to show to his readers will be tried to enlighten with the help of intertextual relationships set up by Mungan. Murathan Mungan, uses all the possibilities of postmodern novel, shows how to enrich literary texts as he gives a place to other authors’ texts in his story like all postmodernist novelists do. In this study; the richness and the new meaning of old text will be tried to find out in Murathan Mungan’s story with the help of method of intertextuality.

  • Issue Year: 19/2013
  • Issue No: 74
  • Page Range: 131-144
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Turkish