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Comparative Analysis of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s Travels to European Countries

European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies

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Title Comparative Analysis of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s Travels to European Countries
 
Creator KAMAL, Aysel
ATIS, Sinem
 
Description Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) is one of the most controversial authors in the 20th century Turkish literature. Literature critics find it difficult to place him in a school of literature and thought. There are many reasons that they have caused Tanpinar to give the impression of ambiguity in his thoughts through his literary works. One of them is that he is always open to (even admires) the "other" thought to a certain age, and he considers synthesis thinking at later ages. Tanpinar states in the letter that he wrote to a young lady from Antalya that he composed the foundations of his first period aesthetics due to the contributions from western (French) writers. The influence of the western writers on him has also inspired his interest in the materialist culture of the West. In 1953 and 1959 he organized two tours to Europe in order to see places where Western thought and culture were produced. He shared his impressions that he gained in European countries in his literary works. In the literary works of Tanpinar, Europe comes out as an aesthetic object. The most dominant facts of this aesthetic are music, painting, etc. In this work, in the writings of Tanpinar about the countries that he travelled in Europe, some factors were detected like European culture, lifestyle, socio-cultural relations, art and architecture, political and social history and so on. And the effects of European countries were compared with Tanpinar’s thought and aesthetics. Keywords: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Europe, poetry, music, painting, culture, life
 
Publisher EUSER
 
Date 2017-05-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Identifier http://journals.euser.org/index.php/ejms/article/view/2324
10.26417/ejms.v5i1.p78-84
 
Source European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies; Vol 2 No 5 (2017): EJMS May August 2017; 78-84
2414-8385
2414-8377
10.26417/ejms.v5i1
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.euser.org/index.php/ejms/article/view/2324/2284