Self-Transformation through Love in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love with Relevance to the Character of Desert Rose the Harlot
(2019). Self-Transformation through Love in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love with Relevance to the Character of Desert Rose the Harlot. EKB Journal Management System, 19(1), 452-467. doi: 10.21608/shak.2019.135822
. "Self-Transformation through Love in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love with Relevance to the Character of Desert Rose the Harlot". EKB Journal Management System, 19, 1, 2019, 452-467. doi: 10.21608/shak.2019.135822
(2019). 'Self-Transformation through Love in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love with Relevance to the Character of Desert Rose the Harlot', EKB Journal Management System, 19(1), pp. 452-467. doi: 10.21608/shak.2019.135822
Self-Transformation through Love in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love with Relevance to the Character of Desert Rose the Harlot. EKB Journal Management System, 2019; 19(1): 452-467. doi: 10.21608/shak.2019.135822

Self-Transformation through Love in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love with Relevance to the Character of Desert Rose the Harlot

مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية
Article 11, Volume 19, Issue 1, July 2019, Page 452-467  XML PDF (573.73 K)
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DOI: 10.21608/shak.2019.135822
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Abstract
As a fundamental part of the human experience, Love has always had an immense impact and importance in the world literature. There is perhaps no other theme in literature as prevailing, challenging, and diverse as that of love. Writers and critics through ages have tried to examine the complex theme of love and explore the different kinds and consequences of love in their literary works. One of the writers who have been preoccupied by the theme of love in their writings is the eminent Turkish novelist, Elif Shafak. Her perception of love is of great prominence to this research. In her novel The Forty Rules of Love (2009), Shafak depicts love with its divine and human dimensions and establishes it as the very essence and purpose of life.  From the radical criticisms of the role that love has played in maintaining patriarchal relations to the more foundational thinking about love as a positive and productive force, love has furthermore particularly played an important role in feminist literary theory and criticism throughout its history. This research paper uses the recent Feminist Love Studies as its framework to scrutinize and establish love, found in places unexpected and brusquely, as the only path for self-transformation through the analysis of the character of Desert Rose the Harlot in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love.
يعد الحب جزء أساسى من التجربة الإنسانية الفريدة ، ولقد کان للحب دائمًا تأثير کبير وأهمية في الأدب العالمي. ويعد الحب من الموضوعات الأکثر تناولا في الأدب بما يمثله من عمق وتنوع واثارة وتشويق. وقد حاول الکتاب والنقاد على مر العصور دراسة موضوع الحب فى کتابتهم الادبية والنقدية وذلک لکشف وبحث أنواع الحب المختلفة فى النفس الانسانية والنتائج المترتبة على الحب في ما تشهده النفس من تغيرات. وتعد الکاتبة الروائية الترکية البارزة أليف شفق من أهم الکتاب الذين انشغلوا بالحب في کتاباتهم فى الوقت المعاصر.
ويمثل أهتمام أليف شفق بموضوع الحب أهمية کبيرة في هذا البحث. ففي روايتها " قواعد الحب الأربعون " (2009) ، تتعرض شفق لموضوع الحب من خلال الشخصيات المتعددة فى الرواية وذلک برسم أبعاده الإلهية والإنسانية، وتقدم  شفق الحب على أنه جوهر الحياة وهدفها. وبعيدا عن الانتقادات الراديکالية للدور الذي لعبه الحب في الحفاظ على الأنماط والقوالب الأبوية فى المجتمع ووصولا إلى التفکير الأساسي حول الحب کقوة إيجابية ومنتجة ، فقد لعب الحب أيضًا دورًا مهمًا في النظرية الأدبية والنقد النسوي طوال تاريخه.
هذا ويتأخذ هذا البحث من دراسات الحب النسوية الحديثة إطار لدراسة الحب ويتمکن البحث من الکشف عن القوة الايجابية والموثرة للحب  کالمسار الوحيد لاحداث التحول الذاتي وذلک من خلال تحليل شخصية زهرة الصحراء الزانية في رواية " قواعد الحب الأربعون " للکاتبة أليف شفق.
Keywords
love؛ self-transformation؛ feminist theory؛ feminist love studies؛ self-expression؛ women؛ power؛ society الحب; التحول الذاتي; النظرية النسوية; دراسات الحب النسوي; التعبير عن الذات; المرأة; السلطة
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