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Nurullah Ataç pioneered the establishment of literary criticism as an independent genre in Turkish literature. Not only his thinking had a notable impact on the cultural and artistic life of his time, but he also heavily influenced the intellectual life of later generations. Studies about Ataç's place inside Turkish literary and intellectual history focus mostly on his critiques and his conception of language. Meanwhile, Ataç's theses on literary theory tend to be neglected, and his stand in debates concerning the fundamental issues of aesthetics remains ignored. This essay aims at compiling Ataç's views on literature that he expressed through various critiques in an unsystematic manner. These will be classified and analyzed in order to show that he sustained a consistent and solid aesthetic theory. Presenting Ataç's views on the old and contemporary problems of literature and discussing his contributions to art theory are among the other goals of this piece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to provide a succinct discussion of intertextuality from a theoretical perspective. The concept of intertextuality dates back to the ancient times when the first human history and the discourses about texts began to exist. As a phenomenon it has sometimes been defined as a set of relations which a text has with other texts and/or discourses belonging to various fields and cultural domains. Yet the commencement of intertextuality as a critical theory and an approach to texts was provided by the formulations of such theorists as Ferdinand de Saussure, Mikhail Bakhtin and Roland Barthes before the term 'intertextuality' was coined by Julia Kristeva in 1966. This study, focusing on firstly, the path from 'work' to 'text' and 'intertext', both of which ultimately became synonymous, and secondly, the shifting position of the reader/interpreter becoming significant in the discipline of literary studies, aims to define intertextuality as a critical theory and state its fundamentals and axioms formulated by the mentioned originators of the intertextual theory and thus to betray the fact that intertextuality had a poststructuralist and postmodern vein at the outset. The study was motivated by both a lack of a study differing the intellectual origins/mental conceptors from the later theoreticians and the rarity of intertextuality's being dealt with as a separate literary approach, i.e. its being scrutinized mostly as a part of other critical approaches. For this reason, the study has been thought to be beneficial especially for laypersons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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