Poetics of The House in Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s Play Sağanak
A house is a shelter with rooms, walls, corridors, and corners. It holds the household together and carries traces of its individual members. According to Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, the house is our domain on earth, our first universe; it is the shelter of an unforgettable past. The co...
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Istanbul University Press
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Konservatoryum |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/56B748477BD84A3B8E66567F58D8A188 |
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| Summary: | A house is a shelter with rooms, walls, corridors, and corners. It holds the household together and carries traces of its individual members. According to Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, the house is our domain on earth, our first universe; it is the shelter of an unforgettable past. The conflict and unrest experienced by the residents of the house also infiltrate into the rooms, walls, and furniture of the house. In Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s play Sağanak, the house also reflects the history, memory, and culture of the people who live in it. The house draws a complex picture of the duality between Afif Mollah, Mister Lûtfi, Eşref, and Belkıs. Eastern culture and Western culture intermingle in the halls, furniture, and order of the house. Conflicts inside the house turn the house upside down. The roof that holds the members of the house together falls apart. Bachelard follows a phenomenological method in The Poetics of Space and constructs his approach to space with images. In this article, thephenomenological method followed by Bachelard in the The Poetics of Space was used and it was aimed to analyze the image of the house found in Karaosmanoğlu’s play Sağanak with the spatial images Bachelard used. The house, which is one of the main elements that make up the space in the play, has been determined to turn into an image that separates the inside and the outside, the family and the stranger, the safe and the dangerous, and when it loses this function, it is symbolically collapses. |
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| ISSN: | 2618-5695 |