Images and Alegories in the Context of Comparative Literature: Water’s Story
Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bağlamında İmgeler Ve Alegoriler: Suyun Evrensel Hikâyesi

Author : Melike GÖKCAN
Number of pages : 650-657

Abstract

One of the parameters of comparative literature is the common motifs and images arising from theology and mythology. These universal values are the best explanation of the common structures that are found in the works of authors belonging to different geographies and cultures, with no direct interaction between them. The water image is an archetype in all cultures as Eliade dealt with it, and socio-cultural and psychic values related to water presents a contextual dictionary with approximately the same definitions. Water is concerned with cosmogony and eschatology in all cultures. The water as an image, comprises the facts at the opposite polarities. It potentially contains allegorical meanings that describe the presence-absence; come into life-death; enthusiasm and joy - deep melancholy. In this study, two great poets from two different worlds of culture, Fuzuli, and Goethe's imagination of "water" in the Naats, whose theme is Prophet Muhammad, has been examined. This is quite meaningful in terms of the journey of the image. On the other hand, the imagination and context of water are quite different in both of the works. The difference tells us a lot as much as the similarity. In this study, the poems belonging to Fuzûlî and Goethe were evaluated by the journey of image through the history of religions, mythology and archetypal journey.

Keywords

Comparative Literature, Water image, Goethe, Fuzuli.

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