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Medieval Self-Fashioning: Identity Performances in Chaucer’S Canterbury Tales
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
The fourteenth century was a period of transformation, in which the social, political, economic and cultural changes led to changes in the social hierarchy of medieval England. These changes also influenced the way medieval ...
Medieval Self-Fashioning: Identity Performances in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
(2016-03-02)
The fourteenth century was a period of transformation, in which the social, political, economic and cultural changes led to changes in the social hierarchy of medieval England. These changes also influenced the way medieval ...
Constructions of New Britishness in Winsome Pinnock’S Talking in Tongues, Mules, Can You Keep a Secret? And One Under
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
While her early plays classify Winsome Pinnock as a Black British dramatist, she prefers racially ambiguous characters in her second phase plays problematising the representation of blackness as well as whiteness and ...
An Archetypa Reading of Mythmaking in Wole Soyinka'S the Bacchae of Euripides and Death and the King'S Horseman
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse mythmaking in Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides (1969) and Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) using Carl Gustav Jung’s archetypal theory. These plays reflect the socio-political ...
Rethinking Utopia as Dystopia: Arthur C. Clarke’S Childhood’S End and Robert Graves’S Seven Days in New Crete
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
A close look into utopian fiction, a narrative born out of the search for a better state of existence, shows that perfection and freedom are merely the appearances; these texts reveal a society that is controlled 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 ...
Shakespeare’S Satirical Representation of the Elizabethan Court and the Nobility in His English History Plays
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
Late Elizabethan society was marked with the growing discontent about socio-economic failures resulting from the failure of crops, high inflation and riots. The scarcity of financial resources of the royal patronage led ...
Transitions in Irishness: Conor Mcpherson’S the Weir and Shining City
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
For the Irish, the Celtic Tiger period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s was very influential in terms of the redefinition of the Irish identity which was already affected by the changing social, economic and political ...
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, ...
A Poetics of Contemporary Science Poetry: the Poems of Edwin Morgan, Robert Crawford and David Morley.
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)
This thesis aims to form a poetics of contemporary British science poetry based on the poems of Edwin Morgan, Robert Crawford and David Morley whose poems make original use of science and technology abundantly. Although a ...