Shakespeare’in Soneler’inde Transgresyon ve Anlamsal Akışkanlık

This study examines the widespread recognition and popularity of Shakespeare’s Sonnets across centuries and among diverse readers. To shed light on their appreciation and enduring reputation, rather than hermeneutic analyses, deconstructive reading will focus on how these seemingly traditional courtly love poems have managed to convey universal issues and concerns across generations. In depicting love, desire, and the destructive power of time, these sonnets do not offer a fixed set of meanings but perform transgressive acts by unsettling and dislocating traditionally acknowledged binary oppositions that depend on hierarchy. The conventional patriarchal erotic zone is problematized when gender binaries are unsettled. Likewise, time, as an antagonist, is reframed when it is reinscribed in a binary opposition between the persona’s poetic skills and the procreative potential of his beloved. Derridean conceptual tools such as différance and deconstruction will be used to examine how these sonnets resist fixed interpretations by constructing metaphors, paradoxes, and ambiguities. The quest for meaning in these poems is challenged each time a conventional polarity is subverted and reconstructed, as the reader participates in the production of meaning. This paper thus aims to analyze how these sonnets create a rich textual space where meaning is perpetually postponed, built and rebuilt in each reading experience.