EZRA POUND AND A. H. TANPINAR: TWO MODES OF AUTHENTICITY IN MODERNIST WORLD LITERATURE

This study is based on the premise that modernist literature, presented as an essentially Western current in established narratives of literary history, global nature, and there are works all around world fall within its scope. rests fact condition called modernity itself a phenomenon. Not only colonialism imperialism, but also projects modernization Westernization witnessed different geographies made extend over entire globe. article argues formal technical novelties distinguishing literature from what preceded it intend to represent respond new subjective social experiences caused by modernity. In this context, Ezra Pound’s poem “In Station Metro” Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s novel A Mind at Peace (Huzur) examined, their aspects discussed with regard common experience bearing forms contents places identified fragmentation, loss sense totality, alienation, ensuing desire for authenticity. It demonstrated notion image method dream aesthetics two inventions addressing fragmentation quest identifies distinct traits modes authenticity imagined Pound Tanpınar.