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A POSTSTRUCTURALIST APPROACH TO BEHÇET NECATİGİL’S “TO DIE ON BOOKS” AND PERCY B. SHELLEY’S “OZYMANDIAS”

Ferdinand De Saussure, the founder of structural linguistics, studied language as a system of signs. Literary structuralism, based on the thesis that there is an arbitrary relationship between the signifier and the signified, confines the sign to a single meaning. In the poststructuralist approach, which finds its expression most strongly with Jacque Derrida, it focuses on the meaning that can never be fixed. In this approach, in which hierarchies of meaning are undermined, the multiplicity of the meaning in the texts is foregrounded. This approach, which also questions the position of the traditional, authoritarian figure of the author who imposes the dominant point of view brings the relationship between the reader and the text to the fore and the reader's multiple perspectives gains importance regarding the production of meaning. In particular, the disabling of the author's activity by the destruction of the traditional authoritarian figure is the focus of both poems on text and reading. These poems, which develop around the relationship between the reader, the text and the author, allow a reader-centred reading in terms of the subject they deal with. The aim of this study is to examine the poems “Die in Books” and “Ozymandias” with a poststructuralist approach, to reveal the dynamic between the text and the reader. It also aims to discuss how the author's traditional authoritarian perspective has been changed and how hierarchies of meaning have been deconstructed.



Anahtar Kelimeler
“To Die in Book”, “Ozymandias”, postructuralism, text, read
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