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The Rise of Female Consciousness in George Egerton's Selected Short Stories Within the Concept of the New Woman
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
With the Industrial Revolution, remarkable social, literary, and economic changes and evolutions emerged in Britain. The condition of women was one of the most important one. Regardless of their class and social positions, ...
Suppression of Sexuality and Gender in Dystopias: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed and Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)
Authoritarian and totalitarian systems are built on the collective conscience and
obedience of their subjects. With the object of securing the continuity of the dominant
ideology, these systems create obedient masses and ...
Colonising the Mind in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)
The process of colonisation attributes pre-determined roles for both the coloniser and the colonised, which aims at establishing a power relationship between the two. A supposed superiority of the coloniser over his subjects ...
Changing Representations of African Women in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the changing representation of African women -
specifically Igbo women- in postcolonial Nigeria through an in depth reading of Buchi
Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1974) and Chinua ...
The Problematised Concept of Author-ity in Tim Crouch's My Arm, An Oak Tree and ENGLAND
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
In the twenty-first century British contemporary and in particular postdramatic theatre, the increasing centralisation of the audience and the spectators’ active participation emerge as controversial subject matters. Tim ...
A Reading of John Donne's Secular and Religious Poetry within the Context of Jungian Individuation
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets (1633) and Holy Sonnets (1633) collections represent conversions both from Catholicism to Protestantism and from a secular lifestyle to a religious one. They also manifest the psychological ...
The Changing Status of Women in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
Gothic novels reflect social, economic, and cultural values of society and mirror the norms and codes of their time. It is possible to analyse such novels in terms of the ‘Woman Question’ which diverges from the traditional ...
(De)monstrating the Other: Monstrosity as Performance in Middle English Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022-07-07)
This study argues that in the selected fourteenth and fifteenth-century Middle English romances, namely, Guy of Warwick (c. 1330), Richard Coer de Lyon (c. 1330), Sir Gowther (late 15th c.) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...
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 ...
Architectural Psychology in Utopias/Dystopias: William Morris's News from Nowhere, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and J.G. Ballard's High-Rise
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
Perusing three utopian/dystopian novels set in London, namely, William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1891), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise (1975), this dissertation scrutinises the ...
