
Charles Baudelaire is regarded as one of the most influential poets of 19th century French literature. Modern Baudelaire, considered one of the founders of modern poetry, is best known for his work Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil). Industry Following the Revolution, city his life, his approach to modernity, social change, and the inner world of the individual, through distinctive aesthetic perspectives, positions him as one of the first theorists of modernism original.Youth and EducationC
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Meryem Şentürk Çoban

Leyla Erbil’s 2011 novel Kalan is a postmodern narrative that interrogates existential dilemmas of the individual collective memory and female identity. The novel takes shape through the protagonist Lahzen’s search for selfhood and offers a multilayered critique of social and political reality.Subject and ThemeKalan centers on Lahzen a female writer living in Istanbul’s Fener neighborhood as she confronts her past and society. The narrative progresses from childhood memories to a quest for truth
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Meryem Şentürk Çoban
CoConsumer Society is a concept that describes a social structure in which consumption activities, rather than production, occupy the center of social organization and individual identity. This structure refers to a system in which individuals embrace consumption not merely as a means to satisfy basic needs, but as a lifestyle, a status symbol, and a search for meaning. Consumer society is characterized not only by the abundance of goods and services, but also by the system of symbolic meanings, s
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NoJustice Ağaoğlu’s novel Hayır continues the exploration of the individual’s memory identity and social building position, forming the third installment of the author’s tetralogy Dar Zamanlar. While Ölmeye Yatmak and Bir Düğün Gecesi examined the moral dimensions of memory in the face of individual and collective forgetting, Hayır also addresses the impact of this remembering process on the individual’s mental health.The novel centers on the character Aysel, familiar from previous novels, place.
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Meryem Şentürk Çoban

Universal history is a concept that brings together the stories of people from all over the world. Its aim is to understand past events and connect them to one another. However, historians sometimes differ in their views on this subject. Universal history is an idea developed by philosophers and thinkers in the past but has been criticized over time.The Origins of Universal History: Big QuestionsUniversal history seeks to answer the question: “How are the histories of all people connected throug
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Mehmet Salih Çoban
GrGrand Narrative refers to theoretical frameworks that aim to explain history and social processes from a universal and comprehensive perspective. These narratives are grounded in ideological or theoretical foundations and strive to interpret the past in a singular direction. They often carry the belief that human history evolves toward a specific goal and offer large-scale explanations. Enlightenment thought, Marxist historiography, modernism, and nation-state historiography are considered examp
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Mehmet Salih Çoban

Ihsan Oktay Anar was born on 21 November 1960 in Yozgat as the youngest member of a family originating from Istanbul. His ancestors migrated from Kazan to Ottoman lands in 1893 and adopted the surname “Anar” during the Republic of Türkiye period. His father Mehmet Sait Bey worked as an alcohol expert at the state monopoly, while his mother Bedia Hanım served as a civil servant. Anar, who had two older sisters—Süheyla and Füruzan—began showing interest in books from an early age. He dedicated his
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Yahya B. Keskin
UnUniversal history is a concept that considers the history of humanity as a whole. Its aim is to understand the shared past of all humankind and place this past in a meaningful context. However, this understanding has sparked various debates due to the theories and ideological approaches developed by historians and thinkers in different periods. The concept of universal history took shape particularly through the philosophical contributions of Enlightenment thinkers like Hegel and Marx, was frame
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Mehmet Salih Çoban