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The Shifting Faces of Epic Heroes: The Evolutionary Trajectory of Heroic Ideals in William Davenant’s Gondibert and John Milton’s Paradise Lost
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
This study argues that in the selected works of the seventeenth-century English epics, William Davenant’s Gondibert (1651) and John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), the epic heroes are constructed as part of the poets’ ...
The Playwrights’ Ironic Criticism of the Post-Truth Discourse of Institutions in Selected British and Irish Plays about the Iraq War
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
The concept of post-truth, theorised by Ralph Keyes in 2004 and used to denote the normalisation of lying in modern societies, remained popular for a long time due to political discourses during the American Presidential ...
Identity Formation against Oppression in Robert Bage's Man as He Is and Hermsprong; or, Man as He Is Not
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
This thesis argues that Robert Bage (1730-1801) uses anti-colonial discourse and the
identity formation of the protagonists in his novels Man as He Is (1792) and
Hermsprong; or Man as He Is Not (1796) in order to criticize ...
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) ...
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 ...
Traces of Collective Memory in A. K. Ramanujan's Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
This thesis employs the intersection of collective memory studies and postcolonial studies in examining selected poems from A. K. Ramanujan’s The Striders (1966) and Second Sight (1986). As such, it centres around two ...
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 ...
The Evolution of British and Irish Gothic Drama from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries within a Socio-Political Context
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
The Gothic emerged as a predominant genre from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Though it primarily started with the novel, the Gothic also became a prominent and popular dramatic genre. Albeit popular ...