The Novel of Mehmet Rauf Named “Eylül” in the Context of Academic Criticism

Today Academic Criticism has been using instead of Russian Formalism (Formalism), French Formalism (Structuralism) and American Formalism (New Criticism) for reviewing literal texts. No one suggest using a templet for studying a text in the context of Academic Criticism however, it is determined the main criterions and headlines for criticism. It is admitted in this method that every literal text determines its subtitles. When we examine the psychological novel of Mehmet Rauf named Eylül we can see that some features have gained importance especially like “perspective and narrator, presentation and transformations of the persons, the naming of people, the central person’s basic conflicts, separations and reunions that construct this love story, shared secrets and furnishings; couldn’t understanding each other, misunderstanding each other and finally understanding, jealousy and suspicion of being deceived, utilization from common interest and confessions; using and presentation of time; the harmony and the interaction of places, , personal moods, times and locations. We will especially focus on these topics in the novel Eylül like “methods, techniques of narration, linguistic, and stylistic features, humoral style; waking up interest in fiction, stresses experienced by the characters of the novel, the deadlocks and solutions in the story, coincidences, dialogues, theses, conclusions in the novel and aesthetic integrity of the text”. Additionally we will summarize notable spots in the articles and theses written on the novel Eylül. We will utilize the methods like author-centered, period and social environment-centered, reader-centered methods in this study for examining and interpreting the novel.

Keywords

Mehmet Rauf, Servet-i Fünûn, Eylül, Academic Criticism