A Study on the Frequency Distribution of Place and Premises Names in Peyami Safa's Novels

This study aims to analyze the generic classification and frequency distribution of outdoor setting names in Peyami Safa's novels. The 12 novels examined within the scope of this study were analyzed based on 6,164 outdoor setting units; the types of settings were divided into functional categories and evaluated statistically and qualitatively within the context of each novel. The research findings demonstrate that Safa, in his city-centered individual narratives, considers space not only as a physical backdrop but also as a fundamental building block shaping the characters' mental transformations, social conflicts, and ideological orientations. The central role of Istanbul as a spatial motif in the novels reveals that the author constructs the individual's search for identity within a spatial context, within the tension between tradition and modernity. The use of urban, social, representative, and symbolic spaces reveals the multilayered semantic connections between the individual and society, the inner world and the external environment, and the past and present. In this context, the study makes a unique contribution to revealing the structural and thematic functions of space in literary texts.