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Çalınan Mektubu Çalan Kişi, Dupin: Bir Dâhi mi Yoksa Bir Müntehil mi?

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 619 - 630, 31.12.2021
https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.935717

Abstract

“The Purloined Letter” Edgar A. Poe’nun 1844 yılında yazıp yayımladığı üç Dupin hikayesinden üçüncü olanıdır. Genellikle saklı tutulanı ortaya çıkarmak üzere yapılan bir soruşturmayı konu edinen dedektif yazınının tipik bir örneği olmanın tersine, “The Purloined Letter” daha ziyade görünürde tutulanı ortaya çıkarmayla ilgilidir. Dupin’in mantık, matematik ve fizik ile olan aşinalığı onun eldeki meseleye bambaşka bir perspektiften bakabilmesini mümkün kılmaktadır. Paris Polis Departmanının en üst düzeydeki yetkilisinin aksine, Dupin çalınan mektubun hiçbir şekilde saklanmadığına sıkıca inanmaktadır. Bu iddiasını kanıtlamak için rakiple kendini özdeşletirme yeteneğini vurgular ve bir oyuncunun diğer oyuncunun zihninden geçenleri doğru bir şekilde tahmin etmesinin gerektiği bir oyundan örnek verir. Keza, insan zihninin ayan-beyan olanı küçük detaylarda bulabileceği yönündeki yanlış inanışının bir sonucu olarak insan zihninin ayan-beyan olanı fark edememesiyle ilgili felsefi bir tespit de bulunur. Dupin aynı zamanda mektubu ele geçirmenin tek yolunun onu çalan kişiden tekrar çalmak olduğuna inanmaktadır. Ve bu yüzden mektubu ilk çalınma şekliyle hemen hemen aynı olacak şekilde onu çalan kişiden çalar. Böylece, mektubun çalınması, mektubun tekrar çalınmasında aynalanmış olur. Tüm bunların ışığında, bu makalenin amacı polisin mektubu neden bulamadığını ve neden mektubun çalındıktan sonra ancak tekrar çalınarak ilk sahibine geri dönebildiğini açıklamaktır.

References

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  • Derrida, Jacques et al. (1999). “The Purveyor of Truth.” Yale French Studies (96), 124-197. Retrieved May 25, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3040722
  • Irwin, John T. (1986). “Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading: Poe, Borges and the Analytic Detective Story; Also Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson.” MLN 101(5), 1168-1215. Retrieved December 7, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2905715
  • Lacan, Jacques and Jeffrey Mehlman. (1972). “Seminar on "The Purloined Letter".” Yale French Studies (48), 39-72. Retrieved May 25, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2929623
  • Johnson, Barbara. (1977). “The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida.” Yale French Studies (55/56), 457-505. Retrieved May 25, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2930445
  • Kennedy, J. Gerald. (1996). “The Violence of Melancholy: Poe against Himself.” American Literary History 8(3), 533-551. Retrieved November 20, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/490156
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  • Richard, Claude. (1981). “Destin, Design, Dasein: Lacan, Derrida and "The Purloined Letter".” The Iowa Review 12(4), 1-11. Retrieved 11 17, 2020, from https://jstor.org.org/stable/20155773
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  • Swirski, Peter. (1996). “Literary Studies and Literary Pragmatics: The Case of "The Purloined Letter".” SubStance, 25(3), 69-89. Retrieved October 6, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3684867

Dupin, the Purloiner of the Purloined Letter: A Hero? Or A Plagiarist?

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 619 - 630, 31.12.2021
https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.935717

Abstract

“The Purloined Letter” is the third of the three Dupin stories that Edgar A. Poe wrote and published in 1844. Contrary to being a typical example of detective fiction which usually involves an investigation to find out what is being kept hidden, “The Purloined Letter” is rather concerned with finding out what is being kept in plain sight. Dupin’s familiarity with logic, math and physics enables him to look at the matter at hand from an exceptionally distinct perspective. Unlike the chief police officer of the Paris Police Department, Dupin firmly believes that the purloined letter has never been concealed at all. To prove his point, he emphasizes the ability to identify with the opponent and draws an analogy from a game of guessing in which one player is expected to make a correct guess about what the other player is thinking of. Dupin also makes a philosophical point regarding the failure of human mind to notice the obvious, which is a result of its tendency to believe that it can find the obvious in minute details. Dupin also believes that the only way to obtain the letter is to purloin it back from the robber who purloined it. And hence he purloins the letter in almost the same way as it was first purloined. The purloining of the letter is mirrored in the re-purloining of it. In the light of all this, this paper aims to explain why the Police fail to find the letter and why the letter gets back to its owner only after the purloining of the letter repeats itself.

References

  • Bretzius, Stephen. (1995). “The Figure-Power Dialectic: Poe's "Purloined Letter".” MLN 110(4), 679-691. Retrieved October 6, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3251199
  • Derrida, Jacques et al. (1999). “The Purveyor of Truth.” Yale French Studies (96), 124-197. Retrieved May 25, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3040722
  • Irwin, John T. (1986). “Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading: Poe, Borges and the Analytic Detective Story; Also Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson.” MLN 101(5), 1168-1215. Retrieved December 7, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2905715
  • Lacan, Jacques and Jeffrey Mehlman. (1972). “Seminar on "The Purloined Letter".” Yale French Studies (48), 39-72. Retrieved May 25, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2929623
  • Johnson, Barbara. (1977). “The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida.” Yale French Studies (55/56), 457-505. Retrieved May 25, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2930445
  • Kennedy, J. Gerald. (1996). “The Violence of Melancholy: Poe against Himself.” American Literary History 8(3), 533-551. Retrieved November 20, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/490156
  • Poe, Edgar Allan. (1946). “The Purloined Letter.” In Edgar Allan Poe (Auth.), Tales of Mystery and Imagination (pp. 454-470). London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
  • Richard, Claude. (1981). “Destin, Design, Dasein: Lacan, Derrida and "The Purloined Letter".” The Iowa Review 12(4), 1-11. Retrieved 11 17, 2020, from https://jstor.org.org/stable/20155773
  • Riddel, Joseph N. (1979). “The "Crypt" of Edgar Poe.” boundary 2, 7(3), 117-144. Retrieved November 23, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/303167
  • Rollason, Christopher. (1988). “The Detective Myth in Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin Trilogy.” In Brian Docherty (Ed.), American Crime Fiction: Studies in the Genre (pp. 4-22). London: Macmillan Press.
  • Swirski, Peter. (1996). “Literary Studies and Literary Pragmatics: The Case of "The Purloined Letter".” SubStance, 25(3), 69-89. Retrieved October 6, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3684867
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Primary Language English
Subjects North American Language, Literature and Culture, Literary Studies, Creative Arts and Writing
Journal Section EDEBİYAT / ARAŞTIRMA MAKALELERİ
Authors

Hamdi Ali Serdar 0000-0003-4356-0625

Cenk Tan 0000-0003-2451-3612

Publication Date December 31, 2021
Submission Date May 10, 2021
Acceptance Date November 8, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021 Volume: 6 Issue: 3

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APA Serdar, H. A., & Tan, C. (2021). Dupin, the Purloiner of the Purloined Letter: A Hero? Or A Plagiarist?. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, 6(3), 619-630. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.935717