İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Tez Koleksiyonu: Recent submissions
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Representations Of The Anthropocene From The Nineteenth Century To The Twenty-First Century: Richard Jefferies’s After London, Or Wild England, Doris Lessing’s Mara And Dann: An Adventure And Adam Nevill’s Lost Girl
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-01-14)Bringing three novels together, namely Richard Jefferies’s post-apocalyptic work After London, or Wild England (1885) from the nineteenth century, Doris Lessing’s postapocalyptic Mara and Dann: An Adventure (1999) from ... -
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 ... -
Postnatural Environments: Literary Cartographies of Pollution in Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse, John Burnside’s Glister, and Joseph D’Lacey’s Garbage Man
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06-07)Drawing attention to the dark side of nature-culture interactions, this dissertation addresses the question of what comes after nature by exploring how toxicity signals the end of pristine, untouched nature, and how nature ... -
The Discord Between the Elements and Human Nature: Ecophobia and Renaissance English Drama
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06-01)Pointing to the ecophobic psyche prominent in social practices by means of the textual portrayals of selected Renaissance plays, this dissertation aims to examine how the physical environment is taken under human control ... -
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. ... -
Redefinition Of Purgation In Samuel Beckett's Dream Of Fair To Middling Women, Mercier And Camier, How It Is
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Dante Alighieri’s (1265-1321) Divine Comedy (1320) has a substantial influence on Samuel Beckett’s (1906-1989) writing throughout his literary career. Beckett was particularly interested in Comedy’s second part, Purgatory, ... -
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, ... -
Re-writing Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century: Edward Bond’s Lear, Arnold Wesker’s The Merchant and Howard Barker’s Gertrude-The Cry in Socio-Historical Context
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07)This study examines re-writings of Shakespeare in British drama, Edward Bond’s Lear (1971), Arnold Wesker’s The Merchant (1976) and Howard Barker’s Gertrude-The Cry (2002) in relation to the socio-political, historical and ... -
Orientalist Representation of the Saracens and the East in Middle English Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)The aim of this dissertation is to present the identity creation process of the West through the non-Arthurian Middle English romances of the Middle Ages in line with Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism. In the Middle Ages, ... -
Orientalist Representation of the East and the Saracens in Middle English Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)The aim of this dissertation is to present the identity creation process of the West through the non-Arthurian Middle English romances of the Middle Ages in line with Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism. In the Middle Ages, ... -
History as a Construct: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, David Edgar’s Pentecost, and David Hare’s Stuff Happens
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Bu tezin amacı İngiliz politik oyun yazarları Caryl Churchill, David Edgar ve David Hare’ın –sırasıyla Mad Forest (1990; Deli Orman), Pentecost (1995; Hamsin) ve Stuff Happens (2004; Olur Böyle Şeyler) adlı oyunlarında – ... -
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 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 Impact Of The French Revolutıon On Wıllıam Blake’s Poetry And Paıntıng: The Changıng Phases Of Evıl
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017-07-11)William Blake was deeply influenced by the revolutions of the late eighteenth century. The events of the turbulent age, specifically the French Revolution, created various impacts on Blake; and led him to many transitions ... -
The Evolution of David Hare's Political Drama as Observed in Fanshen, The Secret Rapture and The Absence of War
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)The aim of this dissertation is to expose how David Hare’s political drama evolves within the social and political context of three decades, the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s and to illustrate this evolution by examining ... -
The Phenomenology of the Self and Others in Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)The aim of this dissertation is to inquire into the conception and understanding of the self as explored in and through its intersubjective relations in the works of three canonical modernist novelists, namely, Virginia ... -
Reading The Irısh Family From Kristeva's Perspective: Lost Parents, Abject Children And Melancholy in Edna O'brien's The Country Girls, Patrick Mccabes's Breakfast On Pluta And Colm Tobin’s The Blackwater Lightship
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)Irish mother has always had an allegorical importance in Irish culture and is constructed over the Mother Ireland stereotype. Due to the colonial past of Ireland, Ireland is defined over a land/woman metaphor and the ... -
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 ... -
A Poetics of Contemporary Science Poetry: the Poems of Edwin Morgan, Robert Crawford and David Morley.
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)This thesis aims to form a poetics of contemporary British science poetry based on the poems of Edwin Morgan, Robert Crawford and David Morley whose poems make original use of science and technology abundantly. Although a ... -
Constructions of New Britishness in Winsome Pinnock’S Talking in Tongues, Mules, Can You Keep a Secret? And One Under
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)While her early plays classify Winsome Pinnock as a Black British dramatist, she prefers racially ambiguous characters in her second phase plays problematising the representation of blackness as well as whiteness and ...
