THE NOVEL THAT LOSES ITS HERO: THE DEATH OF THE SUBJECT, THE VICTORY OF THE OBJECT
KAHRAMANINI YİTİREN ROMAN: ÖZNENİN ÖLÜMÜ, NESNENİN ZAFERİ

Author : Asiye ÇIĞRI YILDIRIM
Number of pages : 490-501

Abstract

From the emergence to the beginning of the 20th century, the novel person comes up as a kind of hero, who is gradually becoming more autonomous in society, struggling to acquire a better place in his / her own society and to announce his / her voice more. From the texts of the early 20th century, we encounter a subject disintegrated in society, alienated from society, distanced from himself, and became weakened. In the world built with the values that modern thought holds superior, the individual is disappointed, fragmented, self-alienated and powerless. In this study, the process of transition from individual to subject and the disappearance of the human subject in the novel gradually was evaluated from the point of view of the modern and postmodern thought of the subject. In the process of transitioning from the novels of modern literature, which are in parallel with the hero of power, to the heroic narratives of postmodern literature, the changes of the novel hero and the effects of these changes on the structural features and the aesthetic quality of the species are emphasized. In postmodern literature where narrative itself is more important than the content, the absence of the novel hero, the structural fiction of the genre and thus the change it has created in its aesthetic elements are discussed.

Keywords

Postmodern Novel, Novel Hero, Modern Novel, Aesthetic, Ethic.

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