The Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas is pleased to announce the first talk in our fall semester Colloquium Series. Dr. Ceylan K\u00f6\u015fker Bevington will present her work entitled: \u201d Domestic Transformations of Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula in The Formative Years of the Turkish Republic.\u201d We look forward to seeing you there.<\/p>\n
Date: Thursday, December 5th
\nTime: 17:30-18:30
\nLocation: G-236<\/p>\n
Abstract:<\/p>\n
This paper explores the impact of the Turkish Republic\u2019s use of domestication strategies to aid the westernisation project by utilising G\u00e9rard Genette\u2019s concept of hypertextuality. Through this theoretical lens, the domestication history of Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula (1897) in the formative years of the Turkish Republic from 1928 to 1953 is assessed. By examining Ali R\u0131za Seyfi\u2019s reworking of Dracula, entitled Kaz\u0131kl\u0131 Voyvoda (Vlad the Impaler, 1928), and its cinematic adaptation, Drakula \u0130stanbul\u2019da (Dracula in Istanbul, 1953), this paper argues that the linguistic, diegetic, and pragmatic transpositions made in these Genetteian heterodiegetic hypertexts reveal an impulse towards a culturally specific form of domestic transformation. Moreover, it will be argued that domestic transformations occur within the field of literary adaptation when a state that has been subjected to imperial exploitation takes on the cultural artefacts of its coloniser and recreates them for purposes beyond those for which they were originally intended. Thus, rather than being direct translations or outlandish adaptations of Stoker\u2019s Dracula, each piece that will be discussed in this paper represents a form of literary transformation that reveals complex interactions in regard to ideas surrounding cultural imperialism.<\/p>\n
Bio:<\/p>\n
Dr. Ceylan K\u00f6\u015fker Bevington is an assistant professor in the department of English Language and Literature in Bilkent University. She received her PhD in English Literature from Aberystwyth University in 2017. She specializes in Victorian literature, with a particular focus on women\u2019s writing, constructions of identity, periodical studies, and the cult of literary celebrity. Her monograph Violet Fane: The Literary Identities of a Nineteenth-Century Poet and Novelist was published by Edward Everett Root Publishers in 2021. In addition to her research into Fane\u2019s life and writing, Dr K\u00f6\u015fker Bevington is currently interested in gothic literature, mesmerism, and constructions of female identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas is pleased to announce the first talk in our fall semester Colloquium Series. Dr. Ceylan K\u00f6\u015fker Bevington will present her work entitled: \u201d Domestic Transformations of Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula in The Formative Years of the Turkish Republic.\u201d We look forward to seeing you [\u2026] <\/p>\n