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The Picture in Dorian Gray: Object Agency and Oscar Wilde’s Decadent Ideas in The Picture of Dorian Gray and its Screen Adaptations
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07)Oscar Wilde’s only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray has been studied with reference to the themes of morality, homosexuality, art and aesthetics since the day it was published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Reflections of Protestant British Identity in Selected Works from the Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing on Asia Minor
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Asia Minor, or Anatolia, was an attractive geography for many British travellers from the beginning to the end of the nineteenth century. Although British travellers put forward a different reason for their journeys depending ... -
The Representations of Trauma and Trauma Coping Strategies in Grace Nichols'S Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)This study argues that there is a gradual evolution of the treatment of trauma and trauma coping strategies in Grace Nichols’s I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983), The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy ... -
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, ... -
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 Supernatural and Punishment in Coleridge's Selected Works
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)The supernatural, apart from being an element widening the range of imagination in literature from past to present, is an agent in the daily lives, folk and religious beliefs of people for explaining the unknown. As one ... -
The Use of Brechtian Devices in Howard Brenton’s Hitler Dances, Magnificence and The Romans in Britain
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-09-29)Bertolt Brecht’s theory of epic theatre was one of the most prominent movements of theatre in the twentieth century. By keeping his plays away from the cathartic effects of Aristotelian drama through certain anti-illusory ... -
The Use of Epic and Romance Elements in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-12-14)Since its publication in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has played a prominent role in the development of the genre that will be known as fantasy literature. As an established medievalist himself, J.R.R. Tolkien drew ... -
The Use of Introspection in Robert Browning's Early Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)This study argues that there is a striking resemblance between Robert Browning’s early poetry and “introspection,” which is the psychological method of self-examination or first-person observation of one’s own mental and ... -
The Use of Myth, the Supernatural and the Gothic in John Keats’s Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)As a result of the changes England experienced at the end of the eighteenth century, Romanticism emerged as a new literary movement. Under the revolutionary influences of the period, the Romantic poets ... -
Tilting at the Windmills of the Eighteenth Century: Representations of British Quixotism in Joseph Andrews, The Female Quixote and The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes, widely regarded as the first example of the modern novel, has always been a rich source of both formal and contextual impact on the world cultures and literatures. Despite its ... -
Transgressing Male Boundaries: The Poetic Works of Anne Finch
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Anne Finch, the Countess of Winchilsea, is a prolific writer who lived in the period between late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Although she wrote about different subjects in various literary forms, she rather ... -
Transitions in Irishness: Conor Mcpherson’S the Weir and Shining City
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)For the Irish, the Celtic Tiger period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s was very influential in terms of the redefinition of the Irish identity which was already affected by the changing social, economic and political ... -
Women and Eco-Disasters in Maggie Gee’s the Ice Peopleand Sarah Hall’s the Carhullan Army: An Ecofeminist Approach
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This thesis examines Maggie Gee s The Ice People and Sarah Hall s The Carhullan Army from ecofeminist perspectives, focusing particularly on the connections between women, eco-disasters, and nonhuman beings. In general ... -
“Words as Bearers of History” : Testimony and Trauma in Seamus Heaney's Early Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-11-18)This study argues that in Seamus Heaney’s early poetry there is a paradoxical attitude towards the therapeutic function of the act of bearing witness to trauma. Heaney’s early collections, Wintering Out (1972), North (1975) ... -
Wrıtıng Agaınst The Current Algernon Charles Swınburne’s Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022-02)Algernon Charles Swinburne is an enigmatic figure in Victorian poetry. He was associated with contemporary literary movements of his age, which challenged the conventional understanding of art, including the Pre-Raphaelite ...