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Jewish American Graphic Narratives: Landscapes, Stereotypes and Transformation in Will Eisner, Ben Katchor, Joe Kubert and Harvey Pekar
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
Jewish American artists/writers Will Eisner’s The Contract with God Trilogy (A Contract With God 1978, A Life Force 1988, and Dropsie Avenue 1995), Ben Katchor’s The Jew of New York (1999), Joe Kubert’s Jew Gangster (2005), ...
The Search for Identity and Individuation Process: The Female Hero’s Questin Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuanand Tehanu
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
This thesis analyzes the concept of quest and individuation process with regards to the female hero in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan and Tehanu. The female hero and her quest is examined under the light of Campbell’s ...
Identities under Construction: Iraq War, Life Writing and American National Identity
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
Life narratives, especially war narratives, are part of a nation s cultural history. These works have the potential to reinvigorate or outdate national narratives and the national identity promoted in them. Iraq War ...
The Local Food Movement in the Works of Three American Nature Writers: Wendell Berry, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Barbara Kingsolver
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
This thesis focuses on the importance of the local food movement that is an alternative solution against the destructive effects of industrial agriculture both for the environment and human beings. The main target of this ...
By Women, for Women, about Women: Social Novels of the Progressive Era, 1900–1920
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
Between 1900 and 1920, Progressive social activist women wrote novels that depicted female characters who struggled with the cult of domesticity and “New Womanhood,” and who fought for social issues such as conservation, ...
Representatıon of Symbolıc Battles in Amerıcan Football Fıctıon: Don Delıllo S End Zone, John Grısham S Bleachers And Dan Jenkıns Semı-Tough
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
The battle discourse in American football is used in literary works to address the controversies, conflicts and struggles that the American nation neglects or refrains from encountering. Don DeLillo, in End Zone (1972), ...
