Story Analyses

Story Analyses

In Türkiye, literature courses taught at high schools and universities are generally conducted according to programs based on textual analysis. However, books that demonstrate, through concrete examples, how literary texts should be analyzed according to scholarly methods—and that can serve as guides for both teachers and students—have been exceedingly rare.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kaplan is one of the foremost scholars in this field. His Poetry Analyses (Şiir Tahlilleri), first published in 1952, was the first major scholarly study of its kind in Turkish literary criticism. This work was later published in two volumes by Dergah Publications: From the Tanzimat to the Republic and Poetry of the Republican Era.

In Story Analyses (Hikâye Tahlilleri), Mehmet Kaplan applies the same method of textual analysis to Turkish short stories written after the Tanzimat period. The result is a pioneering study that, for the first time, examines Turkish storytelling as a whole and evaluates its development up to the modern era.

Because the book also includes the literary texts that are analyzed, it serves not only as a critical study but also as an anthology of significant Turkish short stories.

With its ability to guide both students and teachers within Türkiye’s literature education system, Story Analyses remains an invaluable resource for anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the development of Turkish short fiction.

Author: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kaplan

Series: Turkish Literature – Literary Studies

Dimensions: 16.5 × 23.5 cm

Page Count: 488 pages

ISBN: 978-975-995-288-4

First Published: April 1979

28th Edition: October 2024