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Vitruvius’un Gölgesinde Kalan Kadın: Ralph Fox’un “Roman ve Halk”ında Eril Evrensellik ve Edebiyatta Kadının Yokluğu
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Ralph Fox’un “Roman ve Halk” (1937) eseri, Marksist edebiyat eleştirisi içinde, kapitalist yabancılaşmaya karşı “Bütünlüklü İnsan” (The Whole Man) idealini öne çıkaran temel bir metindir. Ancak, Fox’un bu ideali inşa ederken temel referansı olan Rönesans hümanizmi ve onun simgesi “Vitruvius Adamı”, görünüşte evrensel, özünde ise derin bir şekilde eril (masculine) bir özne tasarımıdır. Bu makale, Fox’un “epik kahraman” ve “Bütünlüklü İnsan” arayışını, Vitruviusçu bir erkeklik kurgusu olarak feminist bir perspektiften eleştirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Argümanımız, Fox’un evrensel olduğunu varsaydığı “İnsan” kategorisinin, aslında Batılı, erkek ve burjuva bir özneyi merkeze alarak, kadını bu evrensellik anlatısının dışına ittiği veya onu ikincil, tamamlayıcı bir konuma hapsettiği üzerine kuruludur. Makale, öncelikle Vitruvius Adamı imgesinin tarihsel ve cinsiyetçi doğasını ortaya koyacak; ardından Fox’un bu imgeyi edebiyat teorisine nasıl aktardığını ve bunun “kahraman”, “yaratıcı deha” ve “tarihin öznesi” gibi kavramları nasıl eril bir şekilde kodladığını analiz edecektir. Son olarak, bu eril evrensellik iddiasının, edebiyat tarihi ve eleştirisinde kadın yazarların, karakterlerin ve deneyimlerinin sistematik olarak “yok sayılması”, marjinalleştirilmesi veya çarpıtılarak temsil edilmesiyle nasıl doğrudan bir ilişkisi olduğu, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir ve Elaine Showalter gibi feminist teorisyenlerin çalışmalarına atıfla gösterilecektir. Fox’un kapitalizm eleştirisi değerli olmakla birlikte, önerdiği estetik ideal, ataerkil tahayyüllerle iç içe geçmiş olduğu için, kadının edebi ve tarihsel varlığına dair kapsayıcı ve
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This relatively short book is about an exceptional man with an extraordinary memory capacity. The author introduced him as "a Jewish boy who, having failed as a musician and as a journalist, had become a mnemonist". Whilst the focus of the book is the subject’s "vast memory", what the author eventually depicts is a man whose total personality is truly unique and complex. What emerges is a picture of a strange man with very great expectations but unfulfilled ambitions, whose inexhaustible memory capacity is matched only by his enigmatic nature. Quite fascinating is the author’s forensic and painstaking unraveling of the underlying mechanism behind this man’s phenomenal memory and unusual character (page 4). The book’s comprehensive approach was guided by the author’s precept that ‘the thoughtful physician is never interested merely in the course of a disease he happens to be studying at the moment, but tries to determine what effect a disturbance has on other organic processes…thus giving rise to the total picture of disease (pages 4-5). He exemplified this precept throughout the book, urging others to follow his example and study other psychological syndromes such as this (page 5).
The author, a psychologist and neurologist, studied the protagonist, now known as Solomon Shereshevsky, for almost thirty years, starting in the 1920’s. His approach was methodical, typified by a keen attention to detail, and carried out over a long period of time. What he unearthed was a rare and exceptional man whose memory he described as ‘one of the keenest the literature on the subject has ever described’ (page 3). It didn’t take much testing for the author to realise that "it was impossible to establish a point of limit to the capacity or the duration of his memory" because he had the
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1911de yazılmış bi romandan korku olarak beklentim yoktu ama cinli yerli hikayeler yabancı gerilim hikayelerine göre çok çok daha korkutucu oluyor bu kitap da benim için ürkütücü bi deneyim oldu
Jane EyreRoman-Edebiyat
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a powerful female narrative that symbolizes individual resistance against the strict moral and social structure of the Victorian Era. The novel is especially significant in terms of feminist and sociocultural readings. Despite all the hardships she endures, Jane remains true to her own sense of morality and selfhood. Her refusal to submit to Mr. Rochester without an equal relationship, despite her deep love for him, can be read as a proto-feminist representation of female individuality.
The story is told in the first person from Jane’s perspective, which allows the reader direct access to her inner world and personal struggles. The gothic atmosphere (Thornfield Hall, the screams from the attic, Bertha Mason) continues the classic tradition of English gothic fiction, while the emphasis on nature and personal emotion reflects the influence of Romanticism.
Themes such as class distinction, the hypocrisy of religious institutions, and moral decay are carefully explored. Jane’s journey from the lowest social class to gaining respect through her intelligence and integrity serves as a pointed critique of the class structure of the time.
The character of Bertha Mason, in particular, is controversial from a postcolonial perspective; her portrayal as the “other” reflects traces of colonialism in English literature. Jane Eyre, with its multilayered narrative, feminist subtext, and its critiques of class and colonialism, provides not only literary but also cultural, historical, and theoretical grounds for analysis.
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This is the graphic version of a very short but very impactful story.
The Lottery isn’t just about a strange tradition, it’s a warning about what happens when people stop thinking sensitively.
I always believed and supported this idea: Just because "everyone agrees on an idea/ideology" this doesn't always mean that it's right.
Just because most people agree on something doesn’t automatically make it right. Democracy shouldn’t be the rule of the majority got the power, it should mean protecting everyone’s rights equally, no matter how many people vote for something. Without that balance, even a vote can become a kind of silent cruelty, a dictatorship. As we can see it in Turkey nowadays.
In the story, everyone goes along with something horrible just because it’s always been done that way. No one questions it. No one asks why.
That’s what makes the story powerful, I believe. It shows how dangerous it can be when people don’t use critical thinking, when they follow the group without stopping to think if something is actually right or wrong.
Even though the town uses a fair system like a lottery, the outcome is cruel. It makes you ask: what’s the point of rules or votes if no one questions what they’re really doing?
Jackson’s story is short, but it hits hard. You can just read it in minutes but it is going to make you think about how the humans are/can be cruel.
A very short but very impactful story.
The Lottery isn’t just about a strange tradition, it’s a warning about what happens when people stop thinking sensitively.
I always believed and supported this idea: Just because "everyone agrees on an idea/ideology" this doesn't always mean that it's right.
Just because most people agree on something doesn’t automatically make it right. Democracy shouldn’t be the rule of the majority got the power, it should mean protecting everyone’s rights equally, no matter how many people vote for something. Without that balance, even a vote can become a kind of silent cruelty, a dictatorship. As we can see it in Turkey nowadays.
In the story, everyone goes along with something horrible just because it’s always been done that way. No one questions it. No one asks why.
That’s what makes the story powerful, I believe. It shows how dangerous it can be when people don’t use critical thinking, when they follow the group without stopping to think if something is actually right or wrong.
Even though the town uses a fair system like a lottery, the outcome is cruel. It makes you ask: what’s the point of rules or votes if no one questions what they’re really doing?
Jackson’s story is short, but it hits hard. You can just read it in minutes but it is going to make you think about how the humans are/can be cruel.
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