Edebi alımlamada mistisizm teması: Aldous Huxley'nin Time Must Have a Stop ve Peyami Safa'nın Matmazel Noraliya'nın Koltuğu romanlarının karşılaştırmalı analizi

Aldous Huxley?s Time Must Have a Stop, which was published in 1944, is the literary manifestation of his mysticism which is the last phase of his career. Likewise Peyami Safa?s Matmazel Noraliya?nın Koltuğu (Mademoiselle Noraliya?s Armchair) which was published in 1949 is the first novel of the writer which depicts his tendency to mysticism. Some phrases in Safa?s novel prove that he had read Huxley?s novel before ho wrote his novel. The aim of the present thesis is to reveal how Peyami Safa received Huxley?s novel and how he reflected the same theme in his novel.The first chapter consists of the theoretical background of the methodology upon which the hypotheses are founded. The reception theory of Constance School of which major exponents of the school are Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser is described. Jauss?s ?horizon of expectations? and Iser?s ?implied reader? are the basic conceptions for the present thesis. Also it consists of description of the development of Turkish novel beginning from the second half of the nineteenth century till 1980 along with the writers? reception of European literary movements and main themes in this period as well as the historicity of the conception of mysticism beginning from the origin of the term until how it is perceived today.The second chapter consists of the comparison of Aldous Huxley?s Time Must Have a Stop and Peyami Safa?s Matmazel Noraliya?nın Koltuğu. The major aspects which constitute Safa?s reception of Huxley?s novel have been analysed. Main theses of both novels have been compared. Structural elements have been examined as well and in this respect the narration techniques of both novelists have been compared.In the conclusion part, using the reception theory of Constance school, how Safa employed and contextualised mysticism in Matmazel Noraliya?nın Koltuğu after his reading of Huxley?s Time Must Have a Stop has been revealed.