Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS, cilt.44, ss.1-14, 2020 (ESCI, TRDizin)
Distance, among the notions associated with travel literature, constitutes one of the key facts of travel experience. The distance that the writer traveler realizes between herself/himself and a place, represents a situation which, from one hand, creates the possibility to perceive the reality of a familiar space from an external position, on the other hand, to live, inside an unfamiliar space, an experience of being and feeling that s/he did not have before. Such consideration toward the notion of distance as it is related to place, makes possible a perspective that goes beyond the ordinary facts regarding the conception of the world and selfness. At this point, travel writings, with the interpretative suggestions and individual deliberations within, provide the necessary content to take into consideration from that very perspective the fact of distance which has strongly an abstract substance and connotation. In this paper, after the words of writer travelers and in the context of twentyfirst century Turkish travel literature, the perception of distance between places will be discussed through a comparative literature perspective and from a poetic approach. And by the realization of that projection, it will be shown how distance, as a constituent of the act of travelling, transforms the space and produces for the writer traveler a different environment of being present in space.