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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Blameth Nat Me: Popular Resistance and Chaucer's Women in His Fabliaux
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)The aim of this thesis is to examine through Fiske s popular culture theory how Chaucer s women in his fabliaux as figures of resistance avert their inferiority and how they subvert their subordination to their empowerment ... -
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 ... -
A Lacanian Reading of Angela Carter's the Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and Nights at the Circus
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)The aim of this study is to examine Angela Carter s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and Nights at the Circus with regard to the Lacanian concepts of three Orders, which are the Imaginary, the Symbolic and ... -
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 ... -
Satiric Representations of Violence in Martin McDonagh’s the Beauty Queen of Leenane, a Skull in Connemara and the Lieutenant of Inishmore
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)The 1990s have been of utmost importance for Ireland and the Irish as this decade ischaracterised by a great diversity of problems: economic problems, unemployment andmigration which came as a result of these problems, ... -
Animals in Saki's Short Stories within the Context of Imperialism: A Non-Anthropocentric Approach
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This thesis examines how the late Victorian and Edwardian British short story writer Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by his penname Saki, opposes the dominant imperial discourse of his period and how he criticises ... -
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. ... -
North and South, Dickens’s Great Expectations and Hardy’s Jude the Obscure: A Dialectical Social Criticism
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy in their novels North and South (1855), Great Expectations (1861) and Jude the Obscure (1895), respectively, represent the conflict between the individuals and society ... -
A Bakhtinian Analysis of Robinsonades: Literary and Cinematic Adaptations of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Since soon after the publication of Daniel Defoe s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, there have been many different cinematic and literary adaptations of this famous adventure story, which are collectively known as Robinsonades. ... -
Animals as Humans or Humans as Animals? A Study of Human and Animal Relationship in Robert Henryson’s Morall Fabillis
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)the purpose of this study is to analyse the characters of Robert Henryson’s Morall Fabillis in relation to the theme of carnality which makes humans bestial and to illustrate how the poet utilises this genre to advise ... -
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, ... -
Iolent Mothers in Marina Carr‟s Plays: The Mai, PortiaCoughlanand by the Bog of Cats....
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)From the 1990s onwards, the depiction of motherhood on the Irish stage has become more intensified as the dramatists began to stress the psychology of mother characters overtly. Among the contemporary Irish playwrights, ... -
Masculinities from the Libertine to the Dandy in the Comedy of Manners: GeorgeEtherege’s The Man of Mode, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquerand Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)The aim of this study is to examine the historical evolution of the British aristocratic and upper-class masculinities from the Restoration period to the late-Victorian era with respect to the theories of men and masculinities ... -
Individuals Oppressed by Society: Rupert Thomson's "Divided Kingdom," Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go," and Jasper Fforde's "Shades Of Grey."
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Dystopian fiction is a genre which critically portrays an oppressive society with its mostly totalitarian governmental system. This dissertation analyses Rupert Thomson's Divided Kingdom (2005), Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
