Sociology and Literature

The idea of public sphere is defined as a realm of our social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed (Habermas 1964). Literature irrespective of genres has always constituted an important part of the public sphere. Indian literature is not an exception for this and it is observed that that public sphere in India first formed as literary public sphere and then transformed into different types of public spheres. Public sphere in Kerala is not an exception of these phenomena. Emergence of Malayalam prose and novel is generally observed as the beginning of literary public sphere in Kerala. Based on this background the proposed seminar is intended to debate following. How Malayalam literature constitutes the emergence of public sphere in Kerala? How public sphere is represented in the Malayalam literature? What extent Malayalam literature can be used as means to rationalize the public sphere in Kerala?

EDEBİYAT VE TOPLUM BAĞLAMINDA TOLSTOY’UN KAZAKLAR ROMANI
Kamil ÖNAL
Yunus Emre Enstitüsü Türkçe Okutmanı
ÖZET
Edebiyat toplumsal olguları yansıtması açısından her zaman değerli bir sosyolojik araç olmuştur. Edebiyat sayesinde toplumu doğrudan gözlemlemek yerine, toplumu anlayabilme yeteneğine sahip olan edebiyatçının anlattıklarından yola çıkarak toplumun ve devrin genel özellikleri, yazarın dünya görüşü, yazarın toplumla olan ilişkisinin boyutu ortaya çıkarılabilir. Özellikle toplumsal tarih çalışmalarında edebî metinler sayesinde geçmişte yaşanmış sosyal ilişkilileri, olayları ve yapıları betimleme şansımız olur. Ancak edebiyatın toplum ile kurduğu ilişki edebiyat eserini asıl amaç olan sanatsal kaygıdan saptırmamalıdır. Bu çalışmada Tolstoy’un Kazaklar romanı örneğinde Kazak, Nogay, Çerkes ve Tatar toplumlarının nasıl ele alındığı üzerinde durulmuştur.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Edebiyat, toplum, Tolstoy, Kazaklar, edebiyat sosyolojisi.

ABSTRACT
TOLSTOY’S NOVEL ‘THE COSSACKS’ IN CONTEXTS OF LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
Literature has always been a valuable sociological tool in term of reflecting social phenomena. The general features of society and the period, the world view of author, the dimension of author’s relation with society can be revealed through literatüre by the way of the literator who has the ability to understand society, instead of observing society directly.Especially in social history studies, we have a chance to describe past social relations, events and structures through literary text. However, the relationship between literatüre and society which set up literature should not be distordet from the artistic concern of literary work. In this study, we discussed that how the Kazakh, Nogay, Circassian and Tatar communities were handled inthe sample of Tolstoy’s novel The Cossacks.
Keywords: Literature, society, Tolstoy, Kazakhs, literaturesociology.

This paper is about the interconnections between sociology and literature. It focuses on the contributions to the topic of such authors as Florian Znaniecki, Robert Nisbet and Robert Redfield. The brief historical reconstruction is integrated with some thoughts on the role of narratives (including literary narratives) as tools to understand our contemporary reality.