Özet:

Literary texts which changed their focus from the author to the reader at the end of the 20th century see the reality in a different way. The author affected by “uncertainty” and “possibility” concepts of modern science searches for the reality not in the external world, but in the inner world and unconscious. The author does not present the reality as it is. He makes the reader feel the reality with certain images, signs and allegories he uses in the text. The reader needs to have a certain imaginary world and cultural and perception level to interpret this world of images in the text. The meaning of the text is multiplied and opened to a new world with the reader’s power of perception. Then, the reader becomes “active” in the text which becomes the main element of “multiplism”. The reader reproduces the multi-layered text by interpreting the images, signs and allegories in the text according to his own background and cultural level. In this production process, mutual aesthetic pleasure is created between the text and reader. In this study, we have tried to analyse the story “Defend My Love, Defend” in Adalet Ağaoğlu’s story book High Tension published in 1974 in different reading styles. Structuralist analysis has been used among these reading styles. We have tried to analyse the text in terms of structure, expression, stylistic and linguistic features. Moreover, we have tried to give information about the social dimension of the text. And signs in the text have been reinterpreted and creative process focused on reader has been used. This way, the text has been recreated by us in criticism dimension.

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