İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
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2017
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Reading the elements of the romantic psyche in Percy Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas
(North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), 2019) Aktar, Merve; Aktar, Merve; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
Imagination, as in Coleridge’s mystical-philosophical “eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM” 1 , is a primary element of Romantic poetry, whose material substance is, I claim, the Spenserian romance form. They combine to form a composite, the Romantic psyche, that I close read in Percy Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas. This choice rests on Shelley’s representative position among his peers for having written the most fanciful poem that methodologizes this “esemplastic” 2 element. The titular Witch and her creation, the Hermaphrodite, allude to the story of False Florimell’s creation in Book III of The Faery Queene; yet, Shelley literalizes the metaphor of the “Imagination … (as) heady romance--an inspiring force, a dangerous seduction,” 3 but provocatively overturns its negative connotations. I read the Witch as spirit and the Hermaphrodite as her imagination, through which “She did unite [friends torn apart] again with visions clear/Of deep affection and of truth sincere” (LXXVII, 663-4). I illustrate how the “dilation” 4 of the romance mode of the poem, that contains no forward thrust and no conclusion, supports Shelley’s conceptualization of the Romantic psyche as made of the elements that in a very Blakean sense “unite again with visions clear” the hitherto fragmentary, conflicting meanings available through reason. Patricia Parker’s concept principally guides my close reading, and the leads me, and, I hope my listeners, to trace how the frustrations of “unawakened eyes” (XL, 361-68) is essential to the recovery of lost vision— the totality of experience.
Dynamics of vaccine skepticism among Turkish youth
(2022) Aktar, Merve; Küçükural, Önder; Aktar, Merve; Küçükural, Önder; Küçükural, Önder; Aktar, Merve; Şahin Kaya, Goncagül; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
To receive a vaccine shot, or not to receive a vaccine shot, has become a life or death decision of sorts, and the range of alternatives contending for public attention, if not trust, pose a puzzle for individual processes of practical reasoning and argumentation. This is especially true for young people. With the goal of examining how vaccine hesitancy is articulated and dealt with in personal narratives, we conducted in-depth oral interviews (önüne) with twenty-seven fırst-year university students- enrolled in more than fıftccn universities spanning most of Turkey in 2021. Wc quickly observed that individuals' decision-making processes are directly affected by the historical strength of the public media narratives circulating among youth. Practical decisions are made depending on the argumentative plausibility of these narratives, bringing to mind Michael Bamberg’s (1997, 2020) positioning theory that suggests a three-tired analysis: story content (story), storytelling interaction (discourse), and social norms. In the Turkish context, the sharp divides and fissures on the level of social norms explain the dynamics of youth vaccine skepticism. Our paper outlines the variants of such skepticism in the midst of Covid-19 and related uncertainties.
“It tempered me (like iron) a little:” Pandemic Metaphors by University Students in Turkey
(Albanian Society for the Study of English, 2022) Aktar, Merve; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
Is the virus a “natural” or “artificial” phenomenon? Will it “catch” you or will you “escape” its grip? Were the mandatory precautions “sacred” or did you feel “imprisoned?” These are some of the metaphoric expressions used by students in Turkey to describe the virus and their lives during the first year of the Covid 19 pandemic. From journeys of self-discovery to admissions of “feeling crippled” by the inability to exert agency, my proposed conference paper has an end to introduce and discuss the narratives of twenty-seven Gen Z’ers from across Turkey. I obtain this data from the ongoing academic research project that I am involved in, titled, “Young people's COVID-19 narratives from an argumentative perspective and normative implications.” Referencing George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s seminal text, Metaphors We Live By, I will critically compare students’ engagement in and critique of master metaphors surrounding the virus and public aspects of the pandemic, including the traditional expressions of the virus as a “trap,” and the disputed public narrative of unity—or lack thereof— “we are all in the same boat.”
Uses, motives, functions, and virtues of silence in argumentation in light of Jadal and Adab al-Bahth wa al-Munazarah
(University of Malaya, 2021) Oruç, Rahmi; Taiai, Maria; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü; Medeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü, Medeniyet Araştırmaları Ana Bilim Dalı
Munazarah procedure determines who has the right to speak and who should remain silent until his turn comes. In fact, proper argumentation requires each party to remain silent where the right to speak is not theirs. However, the argumentation process in practice does not always follow the ideal rules of behaviour. One such instance is verbal aggressiveness, which often leads to anger and rapid information exchange with the offender. Such verbal exchange is generally characterized by an increase in volume and speed of speech, which usually lay the ground for a quarrel. The transition from healthy argumentation to quarrel is problematic because it changes the priorities of the parties involved in the verbal exchange from disclosing the truth to attacking the opponent. Then, the arguers are faced with the following question: What should I do when argumentation seems to be shifting to quarrel? Should I speak, or should I remain silent? The study argues the use of silence as an argumentation strategy prevents healthy argumentation from turning into a quarrel and enables discussants to conduct an ideal argumentation based on ethical standards. It does this in light of the disciplines of Jadal and Adab al-Bahth wa al-Munazarah. The study first explains how muna.arah procedure determines who has the right to speak and who should remain silent. Second, it discusses three argumentative moves in response to which silence might work better as an argumentative strategy. After that, it explores the intricate relationship between silence and tawfiq (divine aid). Finally, it investigates the relationship between silence - as a response to verbal aggressiveness - and the virtue of hilm (judiciousness).
The virtuous arguer as a virtuous sequencer
(Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023) Oruç, Rahmi; Sadek, Karim; Küçükural, Önder; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
In this paper we draw on the munazara tradition to intervene in the debate on whether argument assessment should be agent- or act-based. We introduce and deploy the notion of sequencing - the ordering of the antagonist's critical moves - to make explicit an ambiguity between the agent and the act of arguing. We show that sequencing is a component of argumentation that inextricably involves the procedure as well as the agent and, therefore, its assessment cannot be adequately undertaken if either agent- or act-based norms are ignored or demoted. We present our intervention through a challenge that virtue argumentation needs to address for it to be considered an alternative to existing theories of argument assessment (Section 2). We then briefly introduce munazara and focus on its notion of sequencing to explicate the interdependence between the agent and the procedure (Section 3). Next, we address the challenge by offering an account of the virtuous arguer as a virtuous sequencer (Section 4). In conclusion, we reflect on the implications of sequencing on virtue argumentation and the norms of argumentation.
Açıklama
Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü’nün vizyonu, özellikle Avrupa ve Orta Doğu dillerinde yazılmış eserleri hem birbirleriyle hem de Türk Edebiyatı’yla mukayese ederek, medeniyetlerin geçişkenliği hakkında bilgi üretmek ve farkındalık yaratmaktır. Eleştirel bakış açısının temel alınacağı Bölümde, edebiyat, dil, kültür, sinema alanlarındaki gelişmeleri yakından takip edip, tartışmalara katkı sağlayacak bilim insanları yetiştirmeyi hedeflemektedir.
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