PARIS AS A CITY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TWO ORİENTAL AUTHORS
DOĞULU İKİ YAZARIN KALEMİNDEN BİR KENT OLARAK PARİS

Author : Mehmet CİHANGİR
Number of pages : 148-163

Abstract

In this article, spatial features of Paris’ in Works named Rifâa’ Râfi’ el-Tahtâvi’s Paris Gözlemleri and Hayrullah Efendi’s Avrupa Seyahatnamesi will be discussed in the context of comparative literature data. The representation style of Paris as a city in XIX. century from perspective of both authors will be examined in the context of the content. In this study will be benefit from occidentalist and auto-orientalist perspectives and image centered analysis method and comparative literature data. In this context, the places in Paris will be tried to determine being how carefully and meticulously observed by the authors being talked about and being present to the readers with a how perspective and what kind of approach. Thus, it will be exerted effort to understand in impressions they shared whether they make a connection with their cultural geographies, in this way, whether they benefit from similarities and contradictions, in other saying, whether they make a comparison with places in the cultural world they have grown up.

Keywords

Rifâa’ Râfi’ el-Tahtâvî, Hayrullah Efendi, Paris Gözlemleri ve Avrupa Seyahatnamesi, Paris.

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