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Problematised Self in Virginia Woolf's The Waves: A Structuralist Perspective

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  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

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  • 2003

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Abstract (2. Language): 
Structural approach to literary texts aims to demonstrate the formal coherence in the text and to find out the unifying relationships between the words. The analysis of Virginia Woolf's The Waves from a structural perspective seems to be discrepant due to the autobiographical elements which are foregrounded in the novel. But, the narrative vividness which is made functional particularly in the use of symbols and binary oppositions in the text renders the structural analysis applicable to the text. The concepts of self and selffulfilment are concretised and problematised through certain symbols such as "wave," "ring," and "the sun" and through the symbolic construction of the interludes and chapters of the novel.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Edebi eserlere yönelik yapısalcı yaklaşım metin içerisindeki biçimsel uyumu göstermeyi ve sözcükler arasındaki bütünleştirici ilişkiyi ortaya çıkarmayı amaçlamaktadır. Virginia Woolf'un The Waves başlıklı romanının yapısalcı bakış açısından incelenmesi, romandaki özyaşamöyküsel özellikler sebebiyle uyumsuz bir yaklaşım gibi görünebilir. Fakat, özellikle metindeki semboller ve ikili zıtlıkların işlevsel hale getirdiği anlatısal canlılık metnin yapısalcılık açısından incelenebilmesini mümkün kılar. Benlik ve kendini ispatlama kavramları, "dalga," "halka" ve "güneş" gibi belli başlı sembollerle, roman bölümlerinin ve her bölümdeki giriş kısmının sembolik yapılandırılmasıyla somutlaştırılıp sorunsallaştırıl-mıştır.
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