Reflections of stream of consciousness technique in Irish and Turkish literature

The aim of the study is to examine the historical process of the "stream of consciousness" technique, which gave its first examples in modern literature and reached its peak in postmodern literature, in terms of the literature of the two countries with a genetic and typological comparison method, in a periodical framework and considering social events. The introductory part of the study will begin with a brief description of the stream of consciousness technique, followed by an examination of the concept of "consciousness". It will be examined how the concept of "consciousness" was understood in the historical process, and the concept of "subconsciousness" that developed along with this will be examined. Afterwards, the application process of the stream of consciousness technique in literature will be examined and the historical events that prepared this process will be mentioned. The situation and historical development of the novel until modern literature will be mentioned and some text examples that are thought to contribute to this process will be given. In the main part of the study, the narrative techniques of the first products in which the stream of consciousness technique was used in Irish and Turkish literature in the modernist period will be examined. Since the aim is to examine the historical process of technique, two authors who wrote works in close periods, Samuel Beckett and Yusuf Atılgan and their novels, will be the main focus. Before mentioning these authors, James Joyce and Oğuz Atay, who can be associated with these authors and who used the stream of consciousness technique in different ways, will be mentioned. In the study, the areas where Turkish literature was influenced by Irish literature in the modernist period and the place of Irish literature in the modernist period are emphasized. Keywords: consciousness, stream, Ireland, Turk, literature, Atilgan, Beckett