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The Picture in Dorian Gray: Object Agency and Oscar Wilde’s Decadent Ideas in The Picture of Dorian Gray and its Screen Adaptations
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07)
Oscar Wilde’s only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray has been studied with reference to the themes of morality, homosexuality, art and aesthetics since the day it was published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. ...
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, ...
The Discord Between the Elements and Human Nature: Ecophobia and Renaissance English Drama
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06-01)
Pointing to the ecophobic psyche prominent in social practices by means of the textual portrayals of selected Renaissance plays, this dissertation aims to examine how the physical environment is taken under human control ...
The Reflections of Protestant British Identity in Selected Works from the Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing on Asia Minor
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)
Asia Minor, or Anatolia, was an attractive geography for many British travellers from the beginning to the end of the nineteenth century. Although British travellers put forward a different reason for their journeys depending ...
Transgressing Male Boundaries: The Poetic Works of Anne Finch
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)
Anne Finch, the Countess of Winchilsea, is a prolific writer who lived in the period between late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Although she wrote about different subjects in various literary forms, she rather ...
The British Climate Change Fiction in the Age of the Anthropocene: Ecocritical Readings of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, Maggie Gee’s The Ice People and Ian McEwan’s Solar
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06-07)
The Anthropocene, as a geological concept, refers to the most recent “epoch” in the Earth’s geological time in which various human activities, such as heavy industrialisation, overpopulation, abuse of natural resources, ...
THE CHANGING PORTRAYALS OF GAY AND QUEER IDENTITIES IN JULIAN MITCHELL’S ANOTHER COUNTRY, JONATHAN HARVEY’S BEAUTIFUL THING AND MARK RAVENHILL’S MOTHER CLAP’S MOLLY HOUSE
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)
Even in the earliest and most coded forms, the representations of homosexuality in British drama reflected the social, political and cultural perceptions of homosexuality beyond the plays and contributed to their dissemination. ...
History as a Construct: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, David Edgar’s Pentecost, and David Hare’s Stuff Happens
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)
Bu tezin amacı İngiliz politik oyun yazarları Caryl Churchill, David Edgar ve David Hare’ın –sırasıyla Mad Forest (1990; Deli Orman), Pentecost (1995; Hamsin) ve Stuff Happens (2004; Olur Böyle Şeyler) adlı oyunlarında – ...
Orientalist Representation of the Saracens and the East in Middle English Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)
The aim of this dissertation is to present the identity creation process of the West through the non-Arthurian Middle English romances of the Middle Ages in line with Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism. In the Middle Ages, ...
Postnatural Environments: Literary Cartographies of Pollution in Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse, John Burnside’s Glister, and Joseph D’Lacey’s Garbage Man
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06-07)
Drawing attention to the dark side of nature-culture interactions, this dissertation addresses the question of what comes after nature by exploring how toxicity signals the end of pristine, untouched nature, and how nature ...
