John Keats’in Lamia Şiiri ve Yaşar Kemal’in Yılanı Öldürseler Romanında Eril Kolektif Bakış, Kem Göz ve Yılan
The gaze is not only an act of seeing but also a collective control and oppressive mechanism used for suppressing deviations from the standard social norm. The evil gaze is the one that should be subjugated by the sacred patriarchal gaze and be pushed outside the reach of social life for the w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cyprus International University
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Folklor/Edebiyat |
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| Online Access: | https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/1567076267_7-%20Keats.pdf |
| Summary: | The gaze is not only an act of seeing but also a collective control and oppressive
mechanism used for suppressing deviations from the standard social norm. The
evil gaze is the one that should be subjugated by the sacred patriarchal gaze
and be pushed outside the reach of social life for the welfare of humanity. In
anthropological terms, the most common emblems of the evil gaze are the evil
eye and the serpent. The English Romantic poet John Keats’ Lamia, a narrative
poem relating a mythological serpentine woman’s love affair with a young man
named Lycius, depicts how the collective gaze operates for her destruction in
the patriarchal world of Corinth, the term collective gaze being employed from
Durkheim. Of particular importance is Apollonius’ gaze, which plays a crucial role
in Lamia’s destruction. In Yashar Kemal’s To Crush the Serpent the aim of the
gaze is crushing the serpent, that is, Esme, and most characters—especially Esme’s
mother-in-law—use all the patriarchal strategies in a village setting to persuade
Hasan, Esme’s son, to kill her. The article discusses the historical, religious, and mythological significance of the gaze, its collective function, and its relation to
or mythical/historical enmity with the feminine within the framework of Keats’
Lamia and Yaşar Kemal’s To Crush the Serpent. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-7491 1300-7491 |