Magical Realism in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname
Aristotle accentuates the significance of a lifelike depiction in drama and poetry. As a result, realistic art and literature display hostility to creativity and inventiveness beyond the limits of what is believable and plausible. Apart from true to life portrayals, no description is allowed. This i...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Selcuk University Press
2025-06-01
|
| Series: | Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/4216151 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | Aristotle accentuates the significance of a lifelike depiction in drama and poetry. As a result, realistic art and literature display hostility to creativity and inventiveness beyond the limits of what is believable and plausible. Apart from true to life portrayals, no description is allowed. This is the reason why factions and groups characterised by nontraditional artistic methods emerge in contrast to the teachings of traditional realism. Their original ideas, styles, and techniques stand as opposed to the elements of canonical formation. As a literary mode, magical realism questions the authority and significance of traditional realist teaching. It displays a realistic world view where the ordinary and extraordinary exist together. Magical realism revisits the world, and redefines the essence of existence. Magical realism is where the familiar may become exceptional and extraordinary. This paper claims that the seventeenth-century Ottoman explorer Evliya Çelebi’s travelogue Seyahatname pictures some of the earliest illustrations of magical realism as a style of writing. His ten-volume narrative gives a description of the empire and the neighbouring lands and cultures. The study asserts that although Evliya Çelebi represents reality as it is, his chronicles and descriptions feature the magical realist marvellous and supernatural.
|
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2458-908X |