Cosmopolitanism in James Clarence Mangan's Prose

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2022

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Şükriye Tekşener

Danışman: Arda Arıkan

Özet:

Living between the years of 1803 through 1849, James Clarence Mangan was a prominent Irish poet and writer who made use of properties of the East and the West in his verse and prose. In this thesis study, James Clarence Mangan’s short stories titled “The Thirty Flasks”, “The Man in the Cloak. A very German Story” and “The Three Rings” are analyzed to understand how the tenets of cosmopolitanism are treated in the prose work selected. Mangan employs a unifying mode of thinking, which associated him with the notion of the Weltliteratur by and large. Although in the popular imagination the 19^th-century European literature has been conceptualized as two opposite entities of progress and decay, Mangan’s texts manifest greater political identification with non-Eurocentric modes of thinking among which, as this thesis shows, Cosmopolitanism is the leading one. Mangan’s comprehension of cosmopolitanism, as the thesis reveals, significantly differs from its nineteenth-century counterparts. Although in the following centuries Mangan’s works became somehow more popular, his use of cosmopolitan ideals in his short stories remained understudied. Therefore, this thesis aims to fill this gap in the studies on Irish literature while paying particular attention to cosmopolitanism presented after the appearance of the concept of Weltliteratur. Hence, the selected short stories of James Clarence Mangan are examined by comparing the principles of cosmopolitanism with their content. In short, this thesis analyzes how James Clarence Mangan adopted cosmopolitan ideals and appropriated them in the three stories selected.