In this study, it is tried to reveal the ontological context of text-copy relations in divan literature. In addition to this, the terminology used in the studies on texts or essays of works produced in the tradition of divan literature are critically evaluated, it is emphasized that different alternatives may be mentioned instead of some terms. In particular, it is proposed to use the term “copy” as the term “text” for the process during which the text is determined.

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Literature critiqueis very important in determiningaesthetic value of a literary work. When critic tries to yield up aesthetic value of a literary work, he also guides readers so that they understandliterarywork clearing up semantically ambiguities ofliterary work.Even though determininghistoryof literature critique’s principles and rules base on last centuries, literature critique as a phenomenon origin is based on Plato and Aristotle.There are different critical approaches, different opinions are expressed about the nature of criticism and the critic’s task. When it is dipped into the history of criticism impressionism, structuralism, semiotics, formalism, Marxist aesthetics, historicalism, new historicalism, post-structuralism and NewCriticism stand out as outstanding criticism techniques. Even though academic criticism isn’t a criticism approach, it has been accepted one of criticism approach. Academic criticism is name of activity that it is carried out in terms of scientific principles by academicians in universities. The aim of this work isto investigate on academic criticism’s problems and offering suggestions about these problems.

Poems written by classical Turkish literature poets have been usually banded together in copies called divan. These divans which have been printed in Arabian alphabet in different times and places have been translated to Latin alphabet after alphabet reform and analyzed as part of scientific methods. But it is possible to see some poems of the poets those are not located in divans in various manuscripts and majmuas. And it is seen that these poems have been added divans by the scientific analyzing methods or published as a separated poem book. In this article it will be evaluated a gazelle of Fuzuli that is not located in divans but registered as the name of Fuzuli in apostil of a manuscript included in divan printing by researchers and then a new copy of the poem determined by us will be introduced and compared with existing copy as part of maturation of text.

book review

The book "Theory of Literature" by Teryy Eagleton, which was first published in 1983, seems to be a book, in which the theoretical bases of its theoretical reflections are laid by regarding literature as science, for those who have not read apparently. However, this book does not only talk about the theories of literature. This is one of the reasons, by the author’s own expression, why his book has been read too much and attracted a mass of readers beyond academia. Rather than theory-based didacticity, this book deals with the fact that literature is not a "literary", but an approach based on human sciences, and tells that the definition of literature theory can be reached by questioning what literature is. In this way, the theory of literature is liberated from the hegemony of the elitist coterie and proves that literature is also shaped by groups seen as "the other". This shaping should not be found odd because 20th century is a time period when both sociological and ideological transformations and changes are experienced by societies. This article aims to point out what and how Terry Eagleton has told about literary theories by a critical eye.