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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 ... -
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 ... -
Medieval Self-Fashioning: Identity Performances in Chaucer’S Canterbury Tales
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)The fourteenth century was a period of transformation, in which the social, political, economic and cultural changes led to changes in the social hierarchy of medieval England. These changes also influenced the way medieval ... -
An Archetypa Reading of Mythmaking in Wole Soyinka'S the Bacchae of Euripides and Death and the King'S Horseman
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)The aim of this thesis is to analyse mythmaking in Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides (1969) and Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) using Carl Gustav Jung’s archetypal theory. These plays reflect the socio-political ... -
Characters Seekıng Lıberatıon in R. K. Narayan S Swamı and Frıends, the Bachelor of Arts and the Englısh Teacher
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) depicts the fictional town of Malgudi, in which he sets mostof his works, as a typical South Indian town. Since Malgudi is formed as the microcosmof India, it was through Malgudi and Malgudians ... -
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 ... -
Rethinking Utopia as Dystopia: Arthur C. Clarke’S Childhood’S End and Robert Graves’S Seven Days in New Crete
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)A close look into utopian fiction, a narrative born out of the search for a better state of existence, shows that perfection and freedom are merely the appearances; these texts reveal a society that is controlled and ... -
Posthuman Ecologies in Twenty-First Century Short Animations
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Defining the animated film genre as a posthuman environment itself, this dissertation strategically employs six short animations, namely, Yousif Al-Khalifa s End of an Era (2011), Steve Cutts s Man (2012), James Lee s ... -
Changing Representations of African Women in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)The aim of this thesis is to analyse the changing representation of African women - specifically Igbo women- in postcolonial Nigeria through an in depth reading of Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1974) and Chinua ... -
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) ... -
Colonising the Mind in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)The process of colonisation attributes pre-determined roles for both the coloniser and the colonised, which aims at establishing a power relationship between the two. A supposed superiority of the coloniser over his subjects ... -
Raymond Williams's “Structures of Feeling” and “Elements of Residual-Emergent-Dominant” as Reflected in the Ethical Formations of the Eighteenth Century: Sarah Fielding’s The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last, Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield, Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling.
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)This dissertation looks at the eighteenth-century British sentimental novel tradition as part of a cultural framework in which rivalling ethical theories of the period are represented in a flux of negotiations. Raymond ... -
Posthuman Bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, and Justina Robson’s Natural History
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)Focusing on three representation of posthuman bodies as cloned bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), toxic bodies in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007), and cyborg bodies in Justina Robson’s Natural History ... -
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 ... -
Ecological Interactions: The Sense of Place in E. M. Forster’s Howards End, D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow, And Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)The aim of this dissertation is to examine how E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf’s place-conscious narratives, respectively Howards End (1910), The Rainbow (1914), and Mrs Dalloway (1925) reflect an ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Medieval Self-Fashioning: Identity Performances in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
(2016-03-02)The fourteenth century was a period of transformation, in which the social, political, economic and cultural changes led to changes in the social hierarchy of medieval England. These changes also influenced the way medieval ... -
From Middle-earth to the Real World: J. R. R. Tolkien’s the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, and the Silmarillion
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)Fantasy has long been regarded as an antagonistic genre to realism, and held in contempt because it fails to represent reality. However, despite its departure from consensus reality, fantasy is an equally effective way of ... -
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. ...
