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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 ... -
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) ... -
Pre-Cartesian Representations of Animals and Humans in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Edmund Spenser’s (1552/53-1599) eminent sixteenth century epic, The Faerie Queene (1590-1596), truly proves to be a canonical text of English literature as it has received almost constant critical attention from the time ... -
Abjection of Women and Womanhood in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The aim of this thesis is examining the adverse representations of women and womanhood in “Book I: The Legend of the Knight of the Redcrosse, or Holinesse,” “Book II: The Legend of Sir Guyon, or of Temperaunce,” and “Book ... -
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 ... -
The Shifting Faces of Epic Heroes: The Evolutionary Trajectory of Heroic Ideals in William Davenant’s Gondibert and John Milton’s Paradise Lost
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This study argues that in the selected works of the seventeenth-century English epics, William Davenant’s Gondibert (1651) and John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), the epic heroes are constructed as part of the poets’ ... -
Navigating the Middle Road: Sir Walter Scott’s Representation of the Scottish Identity in Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field and The Lady of the Lake
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Regarded as the father of the historical novel and recognised for his ground-breaking influence on the genre, Sir Walter Scott played a pivotal role in reinstating Scottish identity amid Britain’s dominance in nineteenth-century ... -
The Playwrights’ Ironic Criticism of the Post-Truth Discourse of Institutions in Selected British and Irish Plays about the Iraq War
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The concept of post-truth, theorised by Ralph Keyes in 2004 and used to denote the normalisation of lying in modern societies, remained popular for a long time due to political discourses during the American Presidential ... -
Animetaphors as Political Tools in Volpone by Ben Jonson, Macbeth by William Shakespeare and The Bird in a Cage by James Shirley
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The study of animals in literature and culture has always been a subject approached by many scholars from varying disciplines; yet now the animals are subject of a close scholarly investigation, delving into the deeper ... -
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 ... -
The Use of Epic and Romance Elements in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-12-14)Since its publication in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has played a prominent role in the development of the genre that will be known as fantasy literature. As an established medievalist himself, J.R.R. Tolkien drew ... -
A Reading of Medieval English Society in the Wakefield Cycle and the Chester Cycle
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-11-15)In the Middle Ages, mystery plays were performed by the clergy in the Church on the Corpus Christi Day to teach the biblical stories to the illiterate people; however, later these stories developed to include earthly ... -
A Foucauldian Reading of the Criminal Patient in Peter Shaffer’s Equus and the Psychiatric Prisoners in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)DANESH, Aram. A Foucauldian Reading of the Criminal Patient in Peter Shaffer’s Equus and the Psychiatric Prisoners in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, MA Thesis, Ankara, 2023. This thesis aims to make a Foucauldian ... -
“Representation and Evolution of the Monster and Monstrosity in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian Gothic Novel”
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-07-11)In their origin, monsters are signs of difference and a warning. As the embodiment of difference, monster stands as the signifier of the other, demarcating those whom societal norms deem dangerous or deviant. Providing a ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
A Freudian Reading of Harold Pinter's Early Plays: Neurotic Characters in The Room, The Birthday Party, and The Caretaker
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)As a post-war dramatist, Harold Pinter (1930-2008) reflects the effects of trauma and suffering of the period following the Second World War through his enigmatic early plays by presenting characters who seemingly fall ... -
A Posthuman Econarratological Reading of Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Peter Ackroyd's The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein and Alan Moore's The Saga of the Swamp Thing
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Co-opting posthumanism and the 4EA cognition theory, this study is concerned with the endeavor in econarratology to employ new understandings of existence and the borders of the mind in approaches to narratives. For 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 ... -
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 ...