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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. ... -
Self-Fashioning: A Rebellious Act in Renaissance English Drama
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Under the influence of Renaissance Humanism, the concept of the “ideal-self” was shaped in the light of the classics, and individual glory took on a new meaning among both the literati and the readers/ playgoers of the ... -
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 ... -
“She ys ded!”: Loss and Transformation in Pearl, The Book of The Duchess and Orpheus and Eurydice
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This study argues that in three selected medieval poems, Pearl by the Pearl-poet, The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer, and Orpheus and Eurydice by Robert Henryson, the personae experience profound introspective and ... -
Struggles for Environmental Justice in John Burnside's Living Nowhere, Christie Watson's Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, and Marcel Theroux's Far North
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This dissertation examines the literary representations of environmental justice struggles in John Burnside’s Living Nowhere (2003), Christie Watson’s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (2011), and Marcel Theroux’s Far North (2009) ... -
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 ... -
Swimming Against the Current: Rethinking Orientalism in Julia Pardoe's The City of the Sultan and Grace Ellison's An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Throughout centuries, travel writing has been a popular genre of transferring experiences among writers and readers about unknown places. While it has been a valuable study area for not only cultural studies but also ... -
Ted Hughes's Use of Myths in Crow and Prometheus on His Crag
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017-01-20)Hughes’s personal life and the events in the periods in which Crow (1970) and Prometheus on His Crag (1973) were written are influential factors in Hughes’s poetry. Despite the fact that Hughes uses nature and animals as ... -
The Representation of Rural Irish Characters in J.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea, the Tinker’s Wedding, and the Playboy of the Western World
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)The aim of this thesis is to analyse the representation of peasantry in Ireland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with regard to local colour. In this context, Synge’s reviving Irish folklore to assert Irishness ... -
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 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 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 ... -
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 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 ... -
The Chronotopic Nature of Things in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Orlando
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)Virginia Woolf’s novels are acknowledged as some of the most influential Modernist works dealing with issues of self and spirituality. However, her emphasis on materiality as an essential element in life and literature, ... -
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 ... -
The Creation of Hope as a Spiritual Solution in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017-07-11)T.S. Eliot, the central figure in Modernist Poetry, follows a more religious tone in his poems after his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism in June, 1927. As a poet who witnessed the despair, hopelessness and chaotic atmosphere ...