HALKA KARŞI ENTELEKTÜEL, ENTELEKTÜELE KARŞI HALK: BİRBİRİNE ‘YABAN’ İKİ KESİM
INTELLECTUAL VERSUS PEOPLE, PEOPLE VERSUS INTELLECTUAL: TWO ‘STRANGER’ SIDES TO EACH OTHER

Summary/Abstract: This study, which deals with the intellectual-people conflict, is limited to the dichotomy of this subject in Y. K. Karaosmanoğlu’s novels. There are similar evaluations between the approach of this dichotomy in Karaosmanoğlu’s novels and the approach of Kadro Movement founded by an elitist intellectual group including Karaosmanoğlu. In this respect, methodologically, it is firstly evaluated Kadro as an elitist intellectual movement, and then Karaosmanoğlu’s all novels on the axis of intellectual-people dichotomy are analysed through critical discourse analysis that is one of the qualitative analysis technique. Through Y. K. Karaosmanoğlu’s novels, it is significant that the background of the intellectual-people dichotomy is revealed by a scientific analysis, in order to understand the different aspects of this dichotomy that is presently reflected. The elitist intellectual in Karaosmanoğlu’s novels has a high-hat, prejudiced, sarcastic and dismissive approach to the traditional people, traditional people also keep themselves apart from this intellectual figure who sees them as ignorant and underestimates their way of life. Karaosmanoğlu’s ideological position causes limitations and prejudices in the viewpoint of this subject.

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