Tür "info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis" İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Tez Koleksiyonu için listeleme
Toplam kayıt 46, listelenen: 21-40
-
Orientalist Representation of the Saracens and the East in Middle English Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)The aim of this dissertation is to present the identity creation process of the West through the non-Arthurian Middle English romances of the Middle Ages in line with Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism. In the Middle Ages, ... -
"Out of the Maze of Dualisms": Posthuman Space in Mario Petrucci and Alice Oswald's Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020-07-23)In the light of recent theories of posthumanism that promote a non-anthropocentric perspective, this study examines the poems of contemporary British poets Mario Petrucci and Alice Oswald and argues that they write posthuman ... -
Posthuman Bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, and Justina Robson’s Natural History
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)Focusing on three representation of posthuman bodies as cloned bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), toxic bodies in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007), and cyborg bodies in Justina Robson’s Natural History ... -
Posthuman Ecologies in Twenty-First Century Short Animations
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Defining the animated film genre as a posthuman environment itself, this dissertation strategically employs six short animations, namely, Yousif Al-Khalifa s End of an Era (2011), Steve Cutts s Man (2012), James Lee s ... -
Posthuman Subjectivities in Early British Fantasy Fiction: Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Fantasy literature breaches the great divide between dualities, making marginalised and disempowered nonhuman beings much more audible, visible, and intelligible. In fantasy, the human gets stripped of its so-called ... -
Postnatural Environments: Literary Cartographies of Pollution in Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse, John Burnside’s Glister, and Joseph D’Lacey’s Garbage Man
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06-07)Drawing attention to the dark side of nature-culture interactions, this dissertation addresses the question of what comes after nature by exploring how toxicity signals the end of pristine, untouched nature, and how nature ... -
Raymond Williams's “Structures of Feeling” and “Elements of Residual-Emergent-Dominant” as Reflected in the Ethical Formations of the Eighteenth Century: Sarah Fielding’s The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last, Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield, Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling.
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)This dissertation looks at the eighteenth-century British sentimental novel tradition as part of a cultural framework in which rivalling ethical theories of the period are represented in a flux of negotiations. Raymond ... -
Re-writing Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century: Edward Bond’s Lear, Arnold Wesker’s The Merchant and Howard Barker’s Gertrude-The Cry in Socio-Historical Context
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07)This study examines re-writings of Shakespeare in British drama, Edward Bond’s Lear (1971), Arnold Wesker’s The Merchant (1976) and Howard Barker’s Gertrude-The Cry (2002) in relation to the socio-political, historical and ... -
Reading The Irısh Family From Kristeva's Perspective: Lost Parents, Abject Children And Melancholy in Edna O'brien's The Country Girls, Patrick Mccabes's Breakfast On Pluta And Colm Tobin’s The Blackwater Lightship
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)Irish mother has always had an allegorical importance in Irish culture and is constructed over the Mother Ireland stereotype. Due to the colonial past of Ireland, Ireland is defined over a land/woman metaphor and the ... -
“Representation and Evolution of the Monster and Monstrosity in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian Gothic Novel”
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-07-11)In their origin, monsters are signs of difference and a warning. As the embodiment of difference, monster stands as the signifier of the other, demarcating those whom societal norms deem dangerous or deviant. Providing a ... -
Representations Of The Anthropocene From The Nineteenth Century To The Twenty-First Century: Richard Jefferies’s After London, Or Wild England, Doris Lessing’s Mara And Dann: An Adventure And Adam Nevill’s Lost Girl
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-01-14)Bringing three novels together, namely Richard Jefferies’s post-apocalyptic work After London, or Wild England (1885) from the nineteenth century, Doris Lessing’s postapocalyptic Mara and Dann: An Adventure (1999) from ... -
Revisiting Shakespeare's Problem Plays: The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and Measure for Measure
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)The features which make Julius Caesar (1599), Hamlet (1599-1601), All’s Well That Ends Well (1601-1602), Troilus and Cressida (1603), Measure for Measure (1603), Antony and Cleopatra (1607) and Timon of Athens (1607-1608) ... -
Satiric Representations of Violence in Martin McDonagh’s the Beauty Queen of Leenane, a Skull in Connemara and the Lieutenant of Inishmore
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)The 1990s have been of utmost importance for Ireland and the Irish as this decade ischaracterised by a great diversity of problems: economic problems, unemployment andmigration which came as a result of these problems, ... -
Shakespeare’S Satirical Representation of the Elizabethan Court and the Nobility in His English History Plays
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)Late Elizabethan society was marked with the growing discontent about socio-economic failures resulting from the failure of crops, high inflation and riots. The scarcity of financial resources of the royal patronage led ... -
The British Climate Change Fiction in the Age of the Anthropocene: Ecocritical Readings of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, Maggie Gee’s The Ice People and Ian McEwan’s Solar
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06-07)The Anthropocene, as a geological concept, refers to the most recent “epoch” in the Earth’s geological time in which various human activities, such as heavy industrialisation, overpopulation, abuse of natural resources, ... -
THE CHANGING PORTRAYALS OF GAY AND QUEER IDENTITIES IN JULIAN MITCHELL’S ANOTHER COUNTRY, JONATHAN HARVEY’S BEAUTIFUL THING AND MARK RAVENHILL’S MOTHER CLAP’S MOLLY HOUSE
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Even in the earliest and most coded forms, the representations of homosexuality in British drama reflected the social, political and cultural perceptions of homosexuality beyond the plays and contributed to their dissemination. ... -
“The Crisis of Utopia” in Edward Bond's the War Plays: Red, Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, and Great Peace
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-07-09)The aim of this dissertation is to explore how Edward Bond’s (1934- ) trilogy, The War Plays (1984) – comprising Red Black and Ignorant (1984), The Tin Can People (1984), and Great Peace (1985) – reflects the transformation ... -
The Discord Between the Elements and Human Nature: Ecophobia and Renaissance English Drama
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06-01)Pointing to the ecophobic psyche prominent in social practices by means of the textual portrayals of selected Renaissance plays, this dissertation aims to examine how the physical environment is taken under human control ... -
The Evolution of David Hare's Political Drama as Observed in Fanshen, The Secret Rapture and The Absence of War
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)The aim of this dissertation is to expose how David Hare’s political drama evolves within the social and political context of three decades, the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s and to illustrate this evolution by examining ... -
The Phenomenology of the Self and Others in Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)The aim of this dissertation is to inquire into the conception and understanding of the self as explored in and through its intersubjective relations in the works of three canonical modernist novelists, namely, Virginia ...