Abstract
This is the Turkish translation of Stephen Halliwell’s 2014 article “Diegesis- Mimesis” in The Living Handbook of Narratology. Diegesis/mimesis, which the field of narratology defines as telling/showing, are a pair of Greek terms first brought together in a passage from Republic by Plato. Aristotle then uses the words in his context in Poetics. Although this usage bears Platonic traces, it differs from the usage in Republic in certain aspects. Today, this dichotomy has usually been known, with its narrow counterparts determined by narratology. However, considering Plato’s Republic, it is seen that the distinction drawn by Socrates could be said to be not so much between “showing” and “telling” as in standard modern usage. From antiquity to the present, the terms have had a long and sometimes tangled history of use as a pair of critical categories. In his article, Halliwell reveals this confusion by focusing Plato’s Republic, and Aristotle’s Poetics. In the rest of the article, he emphasizes the usage of the terms in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, underlines the confusion arising from the reductionist typology of modern narratology, and points out the gaps he sees in the field for further investigation.
References
- Berger, Karol (1994). “Diegesis and Mimesis: The Poetic Modes and the Matter of Artistic Presentation.” Journal of Musicology 12, 407–433.
- Bongiorno, Andrew, ed. (1984). Castelvetro on the Art of Poetry. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.
- Chatman, Seymour (1990). Coming to Terms. The Rhetoric of Narrative in Film and Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
- Curtius, Ernst Robert (1953). European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Genette, Gérard (1969). Figures II. Paris: Seuil. – ([1972] 1980). Narrative Discourse. An Essay in Method. Oxford: Blackwell. – ([1983] 1988). Narrative Discourse Revisited. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
- Gilbert, Allan H., ed. (1962). Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden. Detroit: Wayne State UP.
- Halliwell, Stephen ([1986] 1998). Aristotle’s Poetics. London: Duckworth. – (2002). The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems. Princeton: Princeton UP.
- Haslam, Michael (1972). “Plato, Sophron, and the Dramatic Dialogue.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 19, 17–38.
- Janko, Richard (1984). Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II. London: Duckworth.
- Jong, Irene J. F. de (2005). “Aristotle on the Homeric Narrator.” Classical Quarterly 55, 616–621.
- Kroll, Wilhelm (1899–1901). Procli Diadochi in Platonis Republicam Commentarii. 2 vols. Leipzig: Teubner.
- Lattmann, Claas (2005). “Die Dichtungsklassifikation des Aristoteles.” Philologus 149, 28–51.
- Metz, Christian ([1971] 1974). Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema. Chicago: Chicago UP.
- Nünlist, René (2009). The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
- Pier, John ([1986] 2009). “Diegesis.” T. A. Sebeok et al. (eds.). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. vol. 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 217–219.
- Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith ([1983] 2002). Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. London: Methuen.
- Halliwell, Stephen (2009). “The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato.” J. Grethlein & A. Rengakos (eds.). Narratology and Interpretation: the Content of the Form in Ancient Texts. Berlin: de Gruyter, 15–41.
- Jong, Irene J. F. de (1987). Narrators and Focalizers. The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad. Amsterdam: Gruner, 1–14.
- Kirby, John T. (1991). “Mimesis and Diegesis: Foundations of Aesthetic Theory in Plato and Aristotle.” Helios 18, 113–128.
Abstract
Bu makale, Stephen Halliwell’in The Living Handbook of Narratology’de yer alan 2014 tarihli “Diegesis-Mimesis” isimli makalesinin Türkçe çevirisidir. Anlatıbilim alanının anlatmak/göstermek (telling/ showing) olarak karşıladığı diegesis/mimesis terimleri ilk kez Platon’un Devlet’indeki bir pasajda bir arada kullanılmıştır. Sonrasında Aristoteles, Poetika adlı eserinde terimleri kendi bağlamınca yeniden kullanır; fakat bu kullanım kimi noktalarda Platoncu izler taşıyor olmakla birlikte, kimi bakımlardan münferit yeni bağlamlarıyla Devlet’deki kullanımdan ayrışır. Günümüzde bu dikotomi, anlatıbilim alanının tayin ettiği dar karşılıklarıyla dolayıma girmiştir. Öte yandan Platon’un Devlet’i referans alındığında Sokrates tarafından çizilen temel ayrımın standart modern kullanımdaki gibi tümüyle “göstermek” ve “anlatmak” arasında olmadığı görülmektedir. Dahası, Antik Çağ’daki bu ilk kullanımlarından itibaren, eleştirel düzlemde kategorik bir çift olarak terimlerin uzun ve kimi zaman ziyadesiyle karmaşık kullanımlarının tarihi, günümüze kadar uzanmaktadır. Bu makalede Stephen Halliwell, söz konusu bu karmaşayı, Sokrates’in görüşlerinin aktarıldığı/yorumlandığı Platon’un Devlet’ine ve Aristoteles’in Poetika’sına odaklanarak ortaya koymakta, terimlerin Orta Çağ ve Rönesans’taki kullanımlarına değinmekte, modern anlatıbiliminin indirgemeci kategorizasyonu kaynaklı açmazlara dikkat çekmekte, ve son olarak, konu üzerine çalışmak isteyen araştırmacılara alanda gördüğü boşlukları işaret etmektedir.
References
- Berger, Karol (1994). “Diegesis and Mimesis: The Poetic Modes and the Matter of Artistic Presentation.” Journal of Musicology 12, 407–433.
- Bongiorno, Andrew, ed. (1984). Castelvetro on the Art of Poetry. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.
- Chatman, Seymour (1990). Coming to Terms. The Rhetoric of Narrative in Film and Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
- Curtius, Ernst Robert (1953). European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Genette, Gérard (1969). Figures II. Paris: Seuil. – ([1972] 1980). Narrative Discourse. An Essay in Method. Oxford: Blackwell. – ([1983] 1988). Narrative Discourse Revisited. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
- Gilbert, Allan H., ed. (1962). Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden. Detroit: Wayne State UP.
- Halliwell, Stephen ([1986] 1998). Aristotle’s Poetics. London: Duckworth. – (2002). The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems. Princeton: Princeton UP.
- Haslam, Michael (1972). “Plato, Sophron, and the Dramatic Dialogue.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 19, 17–38.
- Janko, Richard (1984). Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II. London: Duckworth.
- Jong, Irene J. F. de (2005). “Aristotle on the Homeric Narrator.” Classical Quarterly 55, 616–621.
- Kroll, Wilhelm (1899–1901). Procli Diadochi in Platonis Republicam Commentarii. 2 vols. Leipzig: Teubner.
- Lattmann, Claas (2005). “Die Dichtungsklassifikation des Aristoteles.” Philologus 149, 28–51.
- Metz, Christian ([1971] 1974). Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema. Chicago: Chicago UP.
- Nünlist, René (2009). The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
- Pier, John ([1986] 2009). “Diegesis.” T. A. Sebeok et al. (eds.). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. vol. 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 217–219.
- Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith ([1983] 2002). Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. London: Methuen.
- Halliwell, Stephen (2009). “The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato.” J. Grethlein & A. Rengakos (eds.). Narratology and Interpretation: the Content of the Form in Ancient Texts. Berlin: de Gruyter, 15–41.
- Jong, Irene J. F. de (1987). Narrators and Focalizers. The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad. Amsterdam: Gruner, 1–14.
- Kirby, John T. (1991). “Mimesis and Diegesis: Foundations of Aesthetic Theory in Plato and Aristotle.” Helios 18, 113–128.
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| Primary Language | Turkish |
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| Journal Section | Translation |
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| Publication Date | September 24, 2022 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2022Issue: 8 |
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