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One of the most important elements that characterizes the modern age is leaving behind the traditional life forms with the ideal of progress. While the traditional way of life was woven with the perception of the metaphysical world, the determinant of modern life shifted towards a materialistic world perception. This situation is reflected in literary works. Herman Melville, one of the famous writers of American literature, approaches the existential and epistemological questions that individuals experience on the axis of the perception of the metaphysical and materialistic world, and by shaping the space of conflict stemming from the two perceptions around the theme of sea travel, he processes the mental transformation of modern American individual in his novel Moby Dick (1851). Similarly, İhsan Oktay Anar, who is known for his postmodern novels in Turkish literature, also dealt with Turkish modernization as a mental transformation around a sea voyage in his novel Tiamat (2022) and discusses the doubt arising from the tension between the perception of the metaphysical and materialistic world in his work. Within the scope of this study, Melville's Moby Dick and Anar's Tiamat are examined and compared with the qualitative research method. The purpose of choosing this method is to compare the perception of the metaphysical and materialistic world in Moby Dick and Tiamat through the sea voyage theme and characters, and to argue that the suspicion and tension caused by both perceptions sheds light on the modernization experience of American and Turkish individuals. Thus, the similar and different modernization experiences are revealed within the framework of their own social and cultural dynamics, along with the tension between the perception of the sacred and profane world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The beginning and the development course of the novel genre in Turkish literature has been with an external influence. It is possible to talk about the continuation of the foreign influence in the emergence of original works after this first stage, which is described as translation, imitation and copyright. With the reflection of the idea of nationalization that started with the period of national literature and accelerated in the Republic period, the people of Anatolia and Anatolia started to enter the novel as a subject and place. However, despite all these movements of nationalization, various opinions regarding the insufficient presence of Islamic elements in the novels are also an opinion expressed. Based on this point, our work will be about Ahmet Gunbay Yildiz, who is evaluated within the framework of the concepts of an Islamic novel, A Hidayat novel, and a popular novel. He also states that Yildiz has entered the path of becoming the representative of Islamic literature in the field of novels with his adventure of transition from poetry to novel. Yıldız is in the first ring with Hekimoğlu Ismail and Şule Yüksel Şenler among the Hidayet novelists. Our study included discussions on the concept of Islamic literature, thoughts on the Hidayat novel and the classification of popular novels, and assessments of Ahmed Gunbay Yildiz's place in these classifications. As a result of these evaluations, it was determined that the author's works contained elements of the Hidayat novel and popular novel. Thus, it was concluded that Yıldız wrote his novels in the popular Islamic novel category without paying much attention to the literary and aesthetic features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the important historical turning points of states is the change of political power. The parties to change have implemented different policies, especially in the socio-cultural field, even if they have similar ideologies. In the reform of the republic, where the state changed with almost every dynamics that formed it change brought with it a great transformation. Kemalism, which basically incorporates Turkish nationalism, is the ideology that plans and programs this transformation. In line with the idea of nationalism in its core, it can be said that the main problematic of Kemalism is to determine the historical process in which the national origin will be launched. Early republican era historiography tries to solve the problem by ignoring the Ottoman Empire and reaching the history of Central Asian Turkish. Thus, the Ottoman Empire becomes a process that is a thing of the past. It is inevitable that this new view of history will directly affect the type of novel that takes its subject from history. n the historical novel published between 1923 and 1938, the Ottomans take part in largely negative images as a requirement of the new perception of history. This situation, which exemplifies the dominant effect of official ideologies on the cultural field, reduces the period and the human reality to which it was preceded by pure literature. n the novel of the period, the Ottoman appears in a picture of a historical process in which historical / fictive novel people, who have no particular side, repeat the same behaviors in the same places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]