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From Middle-earth to the Real World:J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)
Fantasy has long been regarded as an antagonistic genre to realism, and held in contempt because it fails to represent reality. However, despite its departure from consensus reality, fantasy is an equally effective way of ...
Courtly Love Tradition in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur Reconsidered
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine Malory s criticial attitude towards the courtly love convention in Le Morte Darthur. Malory includes three different love triangles in his work and his treatment of each triangle ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blameth Nat Me: Popular Resistance and Chaucer's Women in His Fabliaux
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)
The aim of this thesis is to examine through Fiske s popular culture theory how Chaucer s women in his fabliaux as figures of resistance avert their inferiority and how they subvert their subordination to their empowerment ...
