Kitapta OK edatının tarihî lehçelerdeki kullanımı ele alınmıştır. Türkçedeki en eski pekiştirme edatlarından biri olan OK edatı, aynı zamanda bir enklitik edatı olarak da Türkçeye pek çok ek ve sözcük oluşumunda katkı sağlamıştır. Kitap bir Giriş ve üç ana bölüm üzerinden tasarlanmıştır. Giriş’te edat, pekiştirme edatı ve enklitiklik hakkında bilgilendirme yapılmıştır. Birinci bölümde Tarihî metinlerde OK edatının kullanımı ele alındı. İkinci Bölümde OK edatının anlam ve gramatikal kullanımı üzerinde duruldu. Üçüncü Bölümde OK edatının ek ve sözlerde kalıplaşması tespit edilmeye çalışıldı. Böylece OK edatının tarihî lehçelerdeki kullanımı bir bütün olarak verilmek suretiyle gramer çalışmalarına ilgi duyanların dikkatine sunulmuştur

The second book of Comparative Studies Series is aimed to write on various great literary figures. Studies in Contemporary Comparative Literature in the world are briefly introduced. Two great writers’ works, Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist from English literature and Yaşar Kemal’s Sarı Sıcak from Turkish literature, are compared. Film adaptation of the book The Queen Victoria which tells about one of the greatest queens of England is studied with similarities and differences. Famous novels The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk and Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd are analysed in terms of historiographic metafictional aspects. It is great pleasure to contribute to the literary world with a new study.

“The title of Salman Rushdie’s famous essay, which later formed the title of a book of essays by him, ‘Imaginary Homelands’, is based on one side of a common and age-old perception of home: we make it in the mind or the imagination. Ordinary language has versions of it too: home is where the heart is, I don’t feel at home in my own town/country, this is my spiritual home, etc. On the other hand, there is a physical aspect to home too – ranging from walls associated with ancestral property or parents or some other such inheritance, and extended, through the imagining of communities, as Benedict Andersen would phrase it, sometimes to a land, a country, even a nation. To say that any one of these broad definitions of home is wrong is to cut off large sections of humankind: those who do not belong where they live or those who cannot return to where they used to live. To feel at home and to live at home are both valid cravings, and though they do not necessarily overlap, neither can be dismissed in favour of the other” Tabish Khair

Home in Western Language is a compilation of selected papers presented at the 7th BAKEA Symposium, 2021. In the time of the pandemic, when home has acquired more meanings, this book reads the idea of home and explores its connotations as presented in different genres and ages of English, American, French and literatures.

THE translations given in this volume, with the exception of the stormscene from Tolstoy in the First Lecture, are my own. The reader will please bear in mind that these Lectures, printed here exactly as delivered, were written with a view to addressing the ear as well as the eye, otherwise the book would have been entirely different from what it now is. When delivering the Sixth Lecture, I read extracts from Tolstoy’s “My Religion” and “What to Do,” illustrating every position of his I there commend; but for reasons it is needless to state, I omit them in the book. I can only hope that the reader will all the more readily go to the books themselves.

1889. P. GRAFTON, MASS., 1 July, 1889.