Daniel Defoe’nun Moll Flanders Romanının Jeokritik Tahlili

Year 2021, Issue: 46, 124 - 129, 20.10.2021

Dilek İnan

https://doi.org/10.52642/susbed.898636

Abstract

Bu çalışma Daniel Defoe’nun picaresque romanı (mizahi manzum destan) Moll Flanders (1722) romanında kullanılan zengin mekânsal referansları, flâneur figürü ve jeokritik eleştiri yöntemi ile incelemektedir. Roman çeşitli mekânlar arasında seyahat ve hareketlilik eylemlerini anlatırken, Moll’ün mekânsal tecrübelerinin hayatta kalma mücadelesinde ve ruhsal olgunlaşmasındaki etkisini vurgular. Edward Soja, Fredric Jameson ve David Harvey gibi kuramcılar mekânın somut anlamından öte söylemsel ve sembolik anlamı olduğunu gözlemler. Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Yi-Fu Tuan, Marc Augé ve Edward Relph’in mekân kavramı ile ilgili oluşturduğu terimler ve açıklamaları bu çalışmada Defoe’nun mekânı anlaması, temsil etmesi ve karakterlerinin mekân ile ilişkisini tanımlamada yeni bir bakış açısı sağlamıştır. Onsekizinci yüzyıl keşmekeşliğinde yer, yersizlik, mekanlar arası hareketlilik konularını inceleyen çalışma, mekân ve yaşanılmış tecrübeler bağlamında Defoe çalışmalarına katkıda bulunmaktadır.

Keywords

Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, Mekansallık, Jeokritik eleştiri

A Geocritical Reading of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders

Abstract

This study analyzes the rich spatial and platial references in Daniel Defoe’s picaresque novel Moll Flanders (1722) by using the prospect provided by the figure of the flâneur and geocritical criticism. The novel portrays a world of mobility and travel amongst places and Moll’s spatial experiences determine her survival and spiritual refinement. Theorists such as Edward Soja, Fredric Jameson and David Harvey have observed that place has a discursive/symbolic meaning beyond that of mere location. Spatial thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Yi-Fu Tuan, Marc Augé, and Edward Relph have defined a set of vocabulary related to space which will be helpful to explore the ways in which Defoe’s characters have depicted the human condition and its relation to space. While the notions of locality, displacement, mobility, and placelessness are explored in a setting of eighteenth-century chaos, the paper helps to further studies in Defoe studies especially in evaluating spatiality and lived experience. 

Keywords

Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, Spatiality, Geocriticism

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