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"En Acıklı Öykü"den "Bir İhtiras Hikâyesi"ne: Ford Madox Ford'un İyi Asker Romanında Modernist Anlatı Teknikleri ve Temalar

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 466 - 475, 28.08.2021
https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.937017

Abstract

İngiliz edebiyatında modernist roman geleneği çoğunlukla Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence ve Samuel Beckett isimleriyle ve bu isimlerin kaleme aldığı deneysel eserlerle özdeşleştirilir. Bu seçkinci yaklaşım modernist romanın gelişimine önemli katkılar sağlayan Ford Madox Ford’un ve bazı çağdaşlarının İngiliz edebiyatı tarihindeki yerinin göz ardı edilmesine sebep olmuştur. Modernist edebiyat eleştirisindeki bu eksikliğe karşın, Ford Madox Ford’un eserleri hem anlatı teknikleri hem de tematik kurgusu bakımından modernist kurmaca ile yakın benzerlikler taşır. Bu çalışmanın amacı Ford’un 1915 yılında kaleme aldığı The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (İyi Asker: Bir İhtiras Hikayesi) başlıklı romanın anlatı tekniklerini ve tematik kurgusunu inceleyerek, yazarın başat modernist roman yazarları ile olan benzerliklerini ortaya koymaktır. Romanın alt başlığı, “Bir İhtiras Hikayesi,” Ford’un roman kuramına ışık tutacak bazı ipuçları taşır. Bu alt başlıktan yola çıkarak, çalışmanın birinci bölümünde ‘hikaye’ kavramının tanımı üzerinden Ford’un izlenimci anlatı tekniği ve bu tekniğin On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl gerçekçilik anlayışından farklılıkları üzerinde durulur. Çalışmanın ikinci bölümünde ise Ford’un romandaki ana tema olan “ihtiras” kavramı üzerinden Birinci Dünya Savaşı öncesi Avrupası’nın politik karmaşasını ve bu dönemde değişmeye başlayan ahlak ve sınıf anlayışını yansıtma biçimleri incelenir.

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From “The Saddest Story” to “A Tale of Passion”: Modernist Narrative Techniques and Themes in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 466 - 475, 28.08.2021
https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.937017

Abstract

Modernist British fiction has been customarily associated with a small group of authors, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Samuel Beckett and their experimental works. This highly exclusive view of modernism largely overshadowed the place and legacy of Ford Madox Ford, along with some of his contemporaries, in the history of modernist British fiction. Despite this neglect in critical trajectory, Ford’s works, in fact, anticipates the technical and thematic concerns of the modernist fiction in many ways. The aim of this paper is to explore Ford’s affinities with major modernist writers through a comprehensive analysis of his 1915 novel The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion. The subtitle of the novel “A Tale Passion” provides the necessary critical framework for literary analysis with its implications about Ford’s theory of the novel. Accordingly, the first part of the article focuses on the narrative strategies inspired by the definition of ‘tale’ and explores how Ford’s impressionistic writing style challenges the established conventions of the nineteenth century realism. The second part discusses the way Ford employs the theme of destructive passion to explore the overarching themes of shifting sense of morality and class as well as the political turmoil in the pre-war period.

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  • Bradbury, Malcolm (1971). The Social Context of Modern English Literature. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
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  • --- (1995). “Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford” (1927). The Good Soldier. The Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Martin Stannard. New York. Norton.
  • Hawthorn, Jeremy (1985). Studying Modern Novel: An Introduction. London: Arnold.
  • Hoffmann, Charles (1967). Ford Madox Ford. Boston: Twayne, 1967.
  • Hynes, Samuel (1961). “The Epistemology of The Good Soldier.” The Sewanee Review, Vol. 69, No. 2, 1961, pp. 225-235. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27540663, 16-03-2021.
  • Woolf, Virginia (1984). “Modern Fiction” (1925). The Essays of Virginia Woolf Volume 4: 1925 to 1928. London: The Hogarth Press. 157-165.
  • Zola, Emile (1963). “The Experimental Novel.” Documents of Modern Literary Realism. Ed. George J. Becker. Princeton: Princeton UP.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Literary Theory
Journal Section ARAŞTIRMA MAKALELERİ (İNGİLİZCE)
Authors

Taner Can 0000-0001-8869-4817

Publication Date August 28, 2021
Submission Date May 13, 2021
Acceptance Date June 15, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021 Volume: 6 Issue: 2

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APA Can, T. (2021). From “The Saddest Story” to “A Tale of Passion”: Modernist Narrative Techniques and Themes in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, 6(2), 466-475. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.937017