Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Tez Koleksiyonu: Güncel gönderi
Toplam kayıt 47, listelenen: 21-40
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“Where’s The All-Amerıcan Cowboy?”: The Demythologızatıon of Amerıcan Masculınıty in Cormac Mccarthy’s Western Novels
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)This dissertation analyzes Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (1985), All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998), and scrutinizes his portraits of ... -
Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature: Richard Powers's Gain, Ann Pancake's Strange As This Weather Has Been and John Grısham's Gray Mountain
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-12-13)Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, published in 2011, has undertaken an important mission in the Environmental Humanities; Nixon coined the term “slow violence” for the hitherto unnamed ... -
Self and Power in the Presidential Life Writing of George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-09)This thesis analyzes of three US Presidents’ understandings of self and power as reflected in their life writing. The scope of this thesis is limited to the period between the years 1989-2009, during which George H. W. ... -
Echoes of The Harlem Renaissance: Urban Landscape and Jazz Musıc In Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Walter Dean Myers’s Harlem Summer and Persia Walker’s Black Orchid Blues
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)The Great Migration of the 1910s in the US resulted in a concentration of African American population in the North, which gave way to a considerable demographical change that took place especially in Harlem, New York. The ... -
American Radical Environmental Fiction: Deep Ecology and Eco-Defense in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, Paul Chadwick's Concrete: Think like a Mountain, and T.C. Boyle's A Friend of The Earth
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)The fictional works of American authors Edward Abbey, Paul Chadwick, and T.C. Boyle present a reaction principally to the depletion of the wilderness, destruction of the land, and other environmental ills. Edward Abbey’s ... -
Female Coded Artificial Beings In Selected American Science Fiction Films, 1960s-2000s
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-18)This thesis is an analysis of depictions of “female coded” (being assigned gender traits even in the absence of a biological sex) artificial beings in Norman Taurog’s Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), Duncan ... -
The Chinese American and Japanese American Experience in Graphic Novels and Visual Narratives
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)The place of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants in America has always been in flux, ever-changing and always in competition with one another. When one group was sidelined, the other was favored. This thesis argues that ... -
Haunted and Haunting Heroines within Gothic Settings: Alienation, Madness, and the Uncanny in Shirley Jackson’s Female Gothic
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Known for her short story collection The Lottery and Other Stories (1948), the American author Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been an inspiration for subsequent Gothic-fantastic and horror fiction writers. This dissertation ... -
Stigmatized Faces And Identities In Cecile Pineda’s Face And Ariel Dorfman’s Mascara
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-03)In this study, the major characters in Cecile Pineda’s Face and Ariel Dorfman’s Mascara who are excluded from their social environment because of their facial disfigurement are analyzed within the framework of Erving ... -
Forward to the Past: Narratives of Violence and Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer's Novels
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Each of Jonathan Safran Foer’s three novels, discussed in this thesis, depicts the aftermath of a massive violent event and its effect on the life of an individual. In many respects, Foer creates a collage of historical ... -
Loneliness, Isolation and Sexuality: The Portrayal of Adolescents in Carson McCullers' Short Fiction
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Southern literature underwent a renaissance between the 1920s and 40s when authors of the era created works in a new literary mode called Southern Gothic and used grotesque elements to dismantle the idols and values of ... -
Postmodern Space Revisited: Hypertextuality and Materiality in the Selected Novels of Mark Z. Danielewski, Steve Tomasula, and Lance Olsen
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-02-27)This dissertation explores the role of space and spatial practices in contemporary American fiction which are revealed through the use of postmodernist literary characteristics, hypertext, and materiality. In connection ... -
Feminist Activist Politics And Sisterhood In The Life Narratives Of Audre Lorde And June Jordan
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)İlimen, Ezgi. Feminist Activist Politics and Sisterhood in the Life Narratives of Audre Lorde and June Jordan, Master’s Thesis. Ankara, 2017. African American feminist writers Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name ... -
From Superiority to Equality?: Men'S Voices in Wendy Wasserstein'S Plays
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)This thesis will focus on Wasserstein’s social commentary through drama and will explore the role of men in terms of their relationships with women through six Wasserstein plays. Moreover, this thesis will examine how ... -
Identities under Construction: Iraq War, Life Writing and American National Identity
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Life narratives, especially war narratives, are part of a nation s cultural history. These works have the potential to reinvigorate or outdate national narratives and the national identity promoted in them. Iraq War ... -
Representatıon of Symbolıc Battles in Amerıcan Football Fıctıon: Don Delıllo S End Zone, John Grısham S Bleachers And Dan Jenkıns Semı-Tough
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)The battle discourse in American football is used in literary works to address the controversies, conflicts and struggles that the American nation neglects or refrains from encountering. Don DeLillo, in End Zone (1972), ... -
The Local Food Movement in the Works of Three American Nature Writers: Wendell Berry, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Barbara Kingsolver
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)This thesis focuses on the importance of the local food movement that is an alternative solution against the destructive effects of industrial agriculture both for the environment and human beings. The main target of this ... -
Modern Individual in Search of His Demons: A Jungian Approach to the Selected Stories of H. P Lovecraft
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American science fiction, fantasy and horror writer who lived at a turbulent time, especially in the Western world. Influenced by both his time and writers such as Edgar Allan ... -
By Women, for Women, about Women: Social Novels of the Progressive Era, 1900–1920
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Between 1900 and 1920, Progressive social activist women wrote novels that depicted female characters who struggled with the cult of domesticity and “New Womanhood,” and who fought for social issues such as conservation, ... -
Fact, Fiction, Fact-in-Fiction: Gore Vidal’s Historiographic Metafictions in the Narratives of Empire
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)The conceptualization of history has influenced historical novels and historiographie metafiction, which focus on history as their subject matters. Although these two literary forms seem similar, they are radically different ...
