İmkansız Özerklik - Türk Şiirinde Modernizm

The answer given to the question "Is art for society or art for art's sake?", which the artist asks himself, restricts the artist's "autonomous" space. Impossible Autonomy: Modernism in Turkish Poetry, which aims to establish a critical "narrative" based on the resistance to the Second New poetry, questions the reasons for the reactions to this literature in order to understand the "modernist" transformation in Turkish literature in the second half of the 1950s. Yalçın Armağan, who claims that the Second New's construction of an autonomous poetic language is the main reason for the resistance to this poetry, tries to show with what motives and how the anti-autonomy was shaped. The author argues that, starting from the first period of Turkey's modernization, due to its own sensitivities, literature, and more specifically poetry, tried to create itself with the anti-autonomy opposition, and examines what tactics were developed during the construction of this opposition.

Impossible Autonomy: Modernism in Turkish Poetry attempts to interpret the Second New in terms of the sensitivities specific to the modernization of Turkey from the Tanzimat to the present day, in an environment where those working on the Second New limit themselves to the 1950s and generally try to understand this poetry with Western references. Adhering to Richard Rorty's words, "Those who made us possible could not know what they were making possible", it aims to separate "yesterday" from "today" and thus show what "makes us possible".