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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 ...
he 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
