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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 ... -
Pre-Cartesian Representations of Animals and Humans in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Edmund Spenser’s (1552/53-1599) eminent sixteenth century epic, The Faerie Queene (1590-1596), truly proves to be a canonical text of English literature as it has received almost constant critical attention from the time ... -
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 Ian McMillan as a Postmodern British Poet
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-06)British poetry that is produced after 1960s coincides with the same period when postmodernism as a philosophical attitude dominated all fields of life and especially literature. The British poet Ian McMillan’s poetry is ... -
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 ... -
Redefinition Of Purgation In Samuel Beckett's Dream Of Fair To Middling Women, Mercier And Camier, How It Is
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Dante Alighieri’s (1265-1321) Divine Comedy (1320) has a substantial influence on Samuel Beckett’s (1906-1989) writing throughout his literary career. Beckett was particularly interested in Comedy’s second part, Purgatory, ... -
“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 Diasporic Identities in Britain
(Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2017)The word “diaspora” is derived from the Greek words diaspeirō, meaning “I disperse”, “I scatter,” and diaspore meaning “dispersion” (“diaspeirō,” “diaspore”). Hence, diaspora refers to a scattered population and ... -
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 ... -
Representations of the Welfare State Policies in Post-war Britain in John Arden’s Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Due to the consequences of World War II, the socio-economic condition of Britain during the post-war period was devastating for the British people. The welfare state policies were initiated to improve the socio-economic ... -
Representatıon Of The Welsh Culture In The Mabınogıon
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)Since the formation of societies, people of each social establishment share a set of common values known as culture that defines who they are, where they come from, and what binds them together, and the Welsh as a Celtic ... -
Rethinking Utopia as Dystopia: Arthur C. Clarke’S Childhood’S End and Robert Graves’S Seven Days in New Crete
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)A close look into utopian fiction, a narrative born out of the search for a better state of existence, shows that perfection and freedom are merely the appearances; these texts reveal a society that is controlled and ... -
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) ... -
Robbing the Source Text of Its Authority: The Robin Hood Story as Dialogic Intertext
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)An easily recognized story in contemporary global culture, the famous English folk legend of Robin Hood has been frequently reproduced through cinematic and literary adaptations from the thirteenth century up to the present. ... -
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, ... -
Science, Politics and Utopia in Margaret Cavendish's Works
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-07-17)As one of the most prolific female figures of the seventeenth century, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), wrote a great number of literary works in the male-dominated literary world of the time. ...