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Struggles for Environmental Justice in John Burnside's Living Nowhere, Christie Watson's Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, and Marcel Theroux's Far North
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This dissertation examines the literary representations of environmental justice struggles in John Burnside’s Living Nowhere (2003), Christie Watson’s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (2011), and Marcel Theroux’s Far North (2009) ... -
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 ... -
Swimming Against the Current: Rethinking Orientalism in Julia Pardoe's The City of the Sultan and Grace Ellison's An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Throughout centuries, travel writing has been a popular genre of transferring experiences among writers and readers about unknown places. While it has been a valuable study area for not only cultural studies but also ... -
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 ... -
The Representation of Rural Irish Characters in J.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea, the Tinker’s Wedding, and the Playboy of the Western World
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)The aim of this thesis is to analyse the representation of peasantry in Ireland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with regard to local colour. In this context, Synge’s reviving Irish folklore to assert Irishness ... -
The Agency and Recognition of Animals in the First World War and Its Aftermath in Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse and Megan Rix’s A Soldier’s Friend
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-01)This thesis aims to discuss the contribution of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse (1982) and Megan Rix’s A Soldier’s Friend (2014), both portraying animal characters in leading roles, towards the recognition of the actions ... -
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, ... -
The Changing Face of Dystopia Represented in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil: A Cultural Materialist Study
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)One of Raymond Williams’ biggest contributions to the field of cultural studies is his development of cultural materialism and his introduction of a new way of thinking historically about culture. Describing culture as “a ... -
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 Changing Status of Women in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Gothic novels reflect social, economic, and cultural values of society and mirror the norms and codes of their time. It is possible to analyse such novels in terms of the ‘Woman Question’ which diverges from the traditional ... -
The Chronotopic Nature of Things in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Orlando
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)Virginia Woolf’s novels are acknowledged as some of the most influential Modernist works dealing with issues of self and spirituality. However, her emphasis on materiality as an essential element in life and literature, ... -
The Concept of Human and Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankensteın and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Human, as a concept, has always been at the center of the philosophical and artistic concerns in history. With the scientific developments achieved in the nineteenth century, new perspectives regarding the concept emerge ... -
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 ... -
“The Crisis of Utopia” in Edward Bond's the War Plays: Red, Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, and Great Peace
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-07-09)The aim of this dissertation is to explore how Edward Bond’s (1934- ) trilogy, The War Plays (1984) – comprising Red Black and Ignorant (1984), The Tin Can People (1984), and Great Peace (1985) – reflects the transformation ... -
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 Evolution of British and Irish Gothic Drama from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries within a Socio-Political Context
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The Gothic emerged as a predominant genre from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Though it primarily started with the novel, the Gothic also became a prominent and popular dramatic genre. Albeit popular ... -
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 Evolution of the Character Sherlock Holmes Within the Fan Fiction Narratives and Discourse
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Soon after the publication of the first Sherlock Holmes short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the character Sherlock Holmes and his adventurers become immensely popular among readers. This popularity ... -
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 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 ...