Gothic memory in Ahmet Umit's novels

Literature insight that literary products have formed which are raised by the realities of social life in Turkish and world's literature maintains its presence until 18th century without losing its magnificence. Gothic literature, which acts excluding the rules accepted in the society and has an aim of releasing language and literature from the chains, has changed the course of world's literature starting from this century. Historical course of Gothic literature also requires the formation an accumulative Gothic memory. In this thesis, the information acquired as result of studies on the terminological meaning of the word "Gothic" and historical progress, has been put forward and emphasized on the adventure of Gothic field literature. What the concept of Gothic memory is, from which historical or mythological resources it has raised, the position and significance of Gothic Literature in Turkish and Western Literature are also defined as other topics worthy studying for our thesis. In this sense, Ahmet Umit's novels have been studied who has been determined to give place a lot to the elements of Gothic memory in his works and who is vanguard of contemporary detective novels, and the elements of Gothic memory existing in the novels have been inquired within the purposes of using these elements. The aim of the thesis is to put forward the adventure of Gothic memory concept on the axis of these novels having Gothic elements. Key Words: Gothic Memory, Ahmet Umit, Novel, Gothic Literature.