FORMATION OF NATIONAL LITERATURE CANON
MİLLİ EDEBİYAT KANONUNUN OLUŞUMU

Author : Fariz YILDIRIM
Number of pages : 521-538

Abstract

Besides raising national consciousness, national aesthetics has a significant responsibility to establish a hegamony in the art circles in the context of its basis and principles. Expressed as canonization in literature, actually this period influences the nation formation process directly. Since, when the formation of unity fails in intellectual circles, it is impossible to keep it in lower class. That’s why the canon emerges as a natural output and a necessity of national literatures. The first canon formation in Turkish Literature in real terms is, the nationalist canon initiated by the New Language an the Second Constitutional Period. This tendency is shaped largely in the context of some language (old-new), form (syllable-aruz), literature (socialism-individualism) identified by New Language.

Keywords

National Literature, New Language, Canon.

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