Browsing Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Bölümü by Title
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Designs Of Devices: The Vacuum Aspirator And American Abortion Technology
(Editorial Univ Granada, 2008)In 1965, 71% of legal abortions in the United States were performed using the surgical procedure of dilation and curettage. By 1972, a mere seven years later, approximately the same percentage (72.6%) of legal abortions ... -
Desiring Machines/Bodies without Organs: The Concept of Body in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Choke
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This thesis analyzes the concept of body and its relation to "desire" in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (1996), Invisible Monsters (1999) and Choke (2001). The three characters, the Narrator, Shannon and Victor respectively ... -
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(Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2005)Bugüne dek Bedrettin Cömert hep ölüm yıldönümlerinde anıldı. 11 Temmuzlarda daha çok akademisyen, köşe yazarı, sanatçı, öğrenci ve Cömert'in dostlarından oluşan bir grup insan bıkmak usanmaksızm onu anmaktan vazgeçmedi. ... -
Echoes of The Harlem Renaissance: Urban Landscape and Jazz Musıc In Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Walter Dean Myers’s Harlem Summer and Persia Walker’s Black Orchid Blues
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)The Great Migration of the 1910s in the US resulted in a concentration of African American population in the North, which gave way to a considerable demographical change that took place especially in Harlem, New York. The ... -
Fact, Fiction, Fact-in-Fiction: Gore Vidal’s Historiographic Metafictions in the Narratives of Empire
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)The conceptualization of history has influenced historical novels and historiographie metafiction, which focus on history as their subject matters. Although these two literary forms seem similar, they are radically different ... -
Female Coded Artificial Beings In Selected American Science Fiction Films, 1960s-2000s
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-18)This thesis is an analysis of depictions of “female coded” (being assigned gender traits even in the absence of a biological sex) artificial beings in Norman Taurog’s Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), Duncan ... -
Feminist Activist Politics And Sisterhood In The Life Narratives Of Audre Lorde And June Jordan
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)İlimen, Ezgi. Feminist Activist Politics and Sisterhood in the Life Narratives of Audre Lorde and June Jordan, Master’s Thesis. Ankara, 2017. African American feminist writers Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name ... -
For The Health Of The Sea: In Search Of An Expansive "Land Ethic" In Turkish Maritime Literature
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Forward to the Past: Narratives of Violence and Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer's Novels
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Each of Jonathan Safran Foer’s three novels, discussed in this thesis, depicts the aftermath of a massive violent event and its effect on the life of an individual. In many respects, Foer creates a collage of historical ... -
From Superiority to Equality?: Men'S Voices in Wendy Wasserstein'S Plays
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)This thesis will focus on Wasserstein’s social commentary through drama and will explore the role of men in terms of their relationships with women through six Wasserstein plays. Moreover, this thesis will examine how ... -
Haunted and Haunting Heroines within Gothic Settings: Alienation, Madness, and the Uncanny in Shirley Jackson’s Female Gothic
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Known for her short story collection The Lottery and Other Stories (1948), the American author Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been an inspiration for subsequent Gothic-fantastic and horror fiction writers. This dissertation ... -
Identities under Construction: Iraq War, Life Writing and American National Identity
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Life narratives, especially war narratives, are part of a nation s cultural history. These works have the potential to reinvigorate or outdate national narratives and the national identity promoted in them. Iraq War ... -
Innovators And Instigators: Feminist Contributions To American Abortion Technology, 1963-1973
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Jewish American Graphic Narratives: Landscapes, Stereotypes and Transformation in Will Eisner, Ben Katchor, Joe Kubert and Harvey Pekar
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Jewish American artists/writers Will Eisner’s The Contract with God Trilogy (A Contract With God 1978, A Life Force 1988, and Dropsie Avenue 1995), Ben Katchor’s The Jew of New York (1999), Joe Kubert’s Jew Gangster (2005), ... -
Loneliness, Isolation and Sexuality: The Portrayal of Adolescents in Carson McCullers' Short Fiction
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Southern literature underwent a renaissance between the 1920s and 40s when authors of the era created works in a new literary mode called Southern Gothic and used grotesque elements to dismantle the idols and values of ... -
Modern Individual in Search of His Demons: A Jungian Approach to the Selected Stories of H. P Lovecraft
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American science fiction, fantasy and horror writer who lived at a turbulent time, especially in the Western world. Influenced by both his time and writers such as Edgar Allan ... -
Postmodern Space Revisited: Hypertextuality and Materiality in the Selected Novels of Mark Z. Danielewski, Steve Tomasula, and Lance Olsen
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-02-27)This dissertation explores the role of space and spatial practices in contemporary American fiction which are revealed through the use of postmodernist literary characteristics, hypertext, and materiality. In connection ...
