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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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
