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In-Betweennes in Matthew Arnold's Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
This study concentrates on the inherent, yet paradoxical relationship surrounding the concept of inbetweenness and human ritualization within Matthew Arnold’s poetry, which is a characteristic example of the fragmentary ...
“Into A Wyld Forest”: The Forest As An Ideological Space In Middle English Metrical Arthurian Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-30)
The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the forest employed in Middle English metrical Arthurian romances as an ideological space. Through examining the Arthurian knights’ and the non-knights’ adventures, challenges, ...
Medievalist Epics by an English Woman Poet: Margaret Holford’s Wallace; or, The Fight of Falkirk and Margaret of Anjou: a Poem
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
Margaret Holford (1778-1852) was an English woman poet, a translator and at the same time a novelist. She produced her works in a number of genres but she was not much anthologized like her contemporaries. However, she ...
The Concept of Human and Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankensteın and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
Human, as a concept, has always been at the center of the philosophical and artistic concerns in history. With the scientific developments achieved in the nineteenth century, new perspectives regarding the concept emerge ...
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 ...
The Use of Brechtian Devices in Howard Brenton’s Hitler Dances, Magnificence and The Romans in Britain
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-09-29)
Bertolt Brecht’s theory of epic theatre was one of the most prominent movements of theatre in the twentieth century. By keeping his plays away from the cathartic effects of Aristotelian drama through certain anti-illusory ...
From Ignorance to Experience: Epistemology and Power in Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed and P. D. James’s The Children of Men
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
ATASOY, Emrah. “From Ignorance to Experience: Epistemology and Power in Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed and P. D. James’s The Children of Men.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Ankara, 2019.
This ...
“Words as Bearers of History” : Testimony and Trauma in Seamus Heaney's Early Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-11-18)
This study argues that in Seamus Heaney’s early poetry there is a paradoxical attitude towards the therapeutic function of the act of bearing witness to trauma. Heaney’s early collections, Wintering Out (1972), North (1975) ...
The Agency and Recognition of Animals in the First World War and Its Aftermath in Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse and Megan Rix’s A Soldier’s Friend
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-01)
This thesis aims to discuss the contribution of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse (1982) and
Megan Rix’s A Soldier’s Friend (2014), both portraying animal characters in leading roles,
towards the recognition of the actions ...
The Changing Face of Dystopia Represented in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil: A Cultural Materialist Study
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
One of Raymond Williams’ biggest contributions to the field of cultural studies is his development of cultural materialism and his introduction of a new way of thinking historically about culture. Describing culture as “a ...
