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The Use of Brechtian Devices in Howard Brenton’s Hitler Dances, Magnificence and The Romans in Britain
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-09-29)
Bertolt Brecht’s theory of epic theatre was one of the most prominent movements of theatre in the twentieth century. By keeping his plays away from the cathartic effects of Aristotelian drama through certain anti-illusory ...
In-Betweennes In Matthew Arnold's Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
This study concentrates on the inherent, yet paradoxical relationship surrounding the concept of inbetweenness and human ritualization within Matthew Arnold’s poetry, which is a characteristic example of the fragmentary ...
“Into A Wyld Forest”: The Forest As An Ideological Space In Middle English Metrical Arthurian Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-30)
The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the forest employed in Middle English metrical Arthurian romances as an ideological space. Through examining the Arthurian knights’ and the non-knights’ adventures, challenges, ...
Medievalist Epics by an English Woman Poet: Margaret Holford’s Wallace; or, The Fight of Falkirk and Margaret of Anjou: a Poem
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
Margaret Holford (1778-1852) was an English woman poet, a translator and at the same time a novelist. She produced her works in a number of genres but she was not much anthologized like her contemporaries. However, she ...
The Concept of Human and Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankensteın and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
Human, as a concept, has always been at the center of the philosophical and artistic concerns in history. With the scientific developments achieved in the nineteenth century, new perspectives regarding the concept emerge ...
Representations Of The Anthropocene From The Nineteenth Century To The Twenty-First Century: Richard Jefferies’s After London, Or Wild England, Doris Lessing’s Mara And Dann: An Adventure And Adam Nevill’s Lost Girl
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-01-14)
Bringing three novels together, namely Richard Jefferies’s post-apocalyptic work After
London, or Wild England (1885) from the nineteenth century, Doris Lessing’s postapocalyptic
Mara and Dann: An Adventure (1999) from ...
Representations of the Welfare State Policies in Post-war Britain in John Arden’s Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
Due to the consequences of World War II, the socio-economic condition of Britain during the post-war period was devastating for the British people. The welfare state policies were initiated to improve the socio-economic ...
Reading Ian McMillan as a Postmodern British Poet
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-06)
British poetry that is produced after 1960s coincides with the same period when postmodernism as a philosophical attitude dominated all fields of life and especially literature. The British poet Ian McMillan’s poetry is ...
The Evolution of the Character Sherlock Holmes Within the Fan Fiction Narratives and Discourse
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
Soon after the publication of the first Sherlock Holmes short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the character Sherlock Holmes and his adventurers become immensely popular among readers. This popularity ...
The Changing Face of Dystopia Represented in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil: A Cultural Materialist Study
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
One of Raymond Williams’ biggest contributions to the field of cultural studies is his development of cultural materialism and his introduction of a new way of thinking historically about culture. Describing culture as “a ...
