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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Constructing the Textual Psyche: The Employment of Cyberspace and Psycho-spatial Chronotopes in Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook and Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)The novel’s narrative chronotope and the text’s relationship with its author and the reader are crucial elements for analysing how writing and reading processes correspond to the actualisation process of a work. While ... -
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 ... -
Contextualizing Young Learners' English Lessons With Cartoons: Focus On Grammar And Vocabulary
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2010)This study examined the effectiveness of authentic animated cartoons in teaching English to young Turkish learners. In this experimental study using pre and post-test design, a comparison is made between instruction based ... -
Courtly Love Tradition in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur Reconsidered
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)The purpose of this thesis is to examine Malory s criticial attitude towards the courtly love convention in Le Morte Darthur. Malory includes three different love triangles in his work and his treatment of each triangle ... -
(De)monstrating the Other: Monstrosity as Performance in Middle English Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022-07-07)This study argues that in the selected fourteenth and fifteenth-century Middle English romances, namely, Guy of Warwick (c. 1330), Richard Coer de Lyon (c. 1330), Sir Gowther (late 15th c.) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ... -
Depictions of Utopias in English
(Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2017)I would like to extend my gratitude to the President of Hacettepe University Prof. Dr. A. Haluk ÖZEN and his team for their kind support towards the realisation of the second of the graduate conferences, “Innovative ... -
Disenchanting Patriarchal Fairy Tales through Parody in Angela Carter’s the Bloody Chamber and Other Stories and Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)It has been believed that the beginning of the fairy tales is as old as mankind. Due to the fact that they previously belonged to oral literature and later became part of the literary tradition, the formal and thematic ... -
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 ... -
Edebiyatta Savaşın Yansımaları
(Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2015)Bu kitap Hacettepe Üniversitesi İngiliz Edebiyatı ve Kültürü Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi tarafından 26 Mart 2014’de Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın başlangıcının 100. yılı dolayısıyla düzenlemiş olan “Edebiyatta Savaşın ... -
Evolvement of the Changeling Figure in the Selected Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)Changelings are terrorising figures in the beliefs and superstitions of the medieval period. These awe-inspiring figures of the fairy lore were believed to be fairies or inanimate objects left behind after a healthy infant ... -
Fathers and Sons: Men and Masculinities in the Contemporary British Novel
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This dissertation aims to explore diverse representations of fathers and sons in three contemporary British novels: Amongst Women (1990) by John McGahern, About A Boy (1998) by Nick Hornby, The White Family (2002) by Maggie ... -
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 ... -
From Ignorance to Experience: Epistemology and Power in Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed and P. D. James’s The Children of Men
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)ATASOY, Emrah. “From Ignorance to Experience: Epistemology and Power in Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed and P. D. James’s The Children of Men.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Ankara, 2019. This ... -
Hegemonic Masculinities in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Jacob's Room
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Virginia Woolf’s novels have been analysed regarding their literary style, aesthetic quality and their contribution to the Modernist works with their originality and various novelties. Since masculinity studies started to ... -
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 – ... -
Hybridity in Geoffrey Chaucer’S the Canterbury Tales: Reconstructing Estate Boundaries
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)This study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales reads his pilgrims as the hybrids of medieval borderline community, created by social mobility. Thus, drawing on Bhabha’s postcolonial concepts of hybridity, in–betweenness, ... -
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 ...