Transformation of gothic in Turkish novel

Gothic literature, is product of popular culture and is a genre including symbolic and allegoric narration, in which there are distrust, various secrets, mysteries and fear, and is a type fed by supernatural elements such as jinni or vampire, where distrust and fear psychology which sometimes occurs in individual's inner world due to effect of social conditions and changing and advancing technology are handled. In world literature, the first samples of gothic were seen in the late 18th century. The reason of this is that gothic emerged as a response to rationalism of Age of Enlightenment which appeared in 18th century. In Turkish Literature, with the effect of political and social conditions especially changing after 1980, a great increase has been observed in the number of this kind of works. In Turkish literature, in the first examples of gothic novel having been given especially since 1910s, generally superstitions and the fears shaped within the frame of traditional fears come into prominence based on the socio-cultural life of that time. Then, with the reflection of socio-cultural structure changing in time on gothic novels, psychological disorder, dream, the fears caused by subconscious, and the fears caused by science fiction developing within centreline of modern individual attract attention in today's gothic novel. The purpose of the study is to reveal change which the elements in novels including directly or indirectly gothic elements in Turkish literature have gone through in time with the effect of social and cultural conditions and to make adventure of this genre in Turkish literature appear.