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The Rise of Female Consciousness in George Egerton's Selected Short Stories Within the Concept of the New Woman
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
With the Industrial Revolution, remarkable social, literary, and economic changes and evolutions emerged in Britain. The condition of women was one of the most important one. Regardless of their class and social positions, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Redefinition Of Purgation In Samuel Beckett's Dream Of Fair To Middling Women, Mercier And Camier, How It Is
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)
Dante Alighieri’s (1265-1321) Divine Comedy (1320) has a substantial influence on Samuel Beckett’s (1906-1989) writing throughout his literary career. Beckett was particularly interested in Comedy’s second part, Purgatory, ...
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. ...
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 ...
The Representations Of Trauma And Trauma Coping Strategies In Grace Nichols'S Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
This study argues that there is a gradual evolution of the treatment of trauma and trauma coping strategies in Grace Nichols’s I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983), The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy ...
Re-writing Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century: Edward Bond’s Lear, Arnold Wesker’s The Merchant and Howard Barker’s Gertrude-The Cry in Socio-Historical Context
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07)
This study examines re-writings of Shakespeare in British drama, Edward Bond’s Lear (1971), Arnold Wesker’s The Merchant (1976) and Howard Barker’s Gertrude-The Cry (2002) in relation to the socio-political, historical and ...
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. ...
