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A Bakhtinian Analysis of Robinsonades: Literary and Cinematic Adaptations of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Since soon after the publication of Daniel Defoe s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, there have been many different cinematic and literary adaptations of this famous adventure story, which are collectively known as Robinsonades. ... -
A Bhabhaesque Approach To Hybridity In Jean Rhys’s Wıde Sargasso Sea And Caryl Phıllıps’s The Fınal Passage
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021-06-18)This dissertation reads the main characters in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage (1985) as hybrids, owning a hybrid identity and experiencing in-betweenness. Employing Bhabha’s ... -
A Foucauldian Reading of the Criminal Patient in Peter Shaffer’s Equus and the Psychiatric Prisoners in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)DANESH, Aram. A Foucauldian Reading of the Criminal Patient in Peter Shaffer’s Equus and the Psychiatric Prisoners in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, MA Thesis, Ankara, 2023. This thesis aims to make a Foucauldian ... -
A Freudian Reading of Harold Pinter's Early Plays: Neurotic Characters in The Room, The Birthday Party, and The Caretaker
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)As a post-war dramatist, Harold Pinter (1930-2008) reflects the effects of trauma and suffering of the period following the Second World War through his enigmatic early plays by presenting characters who seemingly fall ... -
A Lacanian Reading of Angela Carter's the Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and Nights at the Circus
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)The aim of this study is to examine Angela Carter s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and Nights at the Circus with regard to the Lacanian concepts of three Orders, which are the Imaginary, the Symbolic and ... -
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 ... -
A Posthuman Econarratological Reading of Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Peter Ackroyd's The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein and Alan Moore's The Saga of the Swamp Thing
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Co-opting posthumanism and the 4EA cognition theory, this study is concerned with the endeavor in econarratology to employ new understandings of existence and the borders of the mind in approaches to narratives. For this ... -
A Reading of John Donne's Secular and Religious Poetry within the Context of Jungian Individuation
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets (1633) and Holy Sonnets (1633) collections represent conversions both from Catholicism to Protestantism and from a secular lifestyle to a religious one. They also manifest the psychological ... -
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 ... -
Animals as Humans or Humans as Animals? A Study of Human and Animal Relationship in Robert Henryson’s Morall Fabillis
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)the purpose of this study is to analyse the characters of Robert Henryson’s Morall Fabillis in relation to the theme of carnality which makes humans bestial and to illustrate how the poet utilises this genre to advise ... -
Animals in Saki's Short Stories within the Context of Imperialism: A Non-Anthropocentric Approach
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This thesis examines how the late Victorian and Edwardian British short story writer Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by his penname Saki, opposes the dominant imperial discourse of his period and how he criticises ... -
Architectural Psychology in Utopias/Dystopias: William Morris's News from Nowhere, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and J.G. Ballard's High-Rise
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Perusing three utopian/dystopian novels set in London, namely, William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1891), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise (1975), this dissertation scrutinises the ... -
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 ... -
Changing Representations of African Women in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)The aim of this thesis is to analyse the changing representation of African women - specifically Igbo women- in postcolonial Nigeria through an in depth reading of Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1974) and Chinua ... -
Characters Seekıng Lıberatıon in R. K. Narayan S Swamı and Frıends, the Bachelor of Arts and the Englısh Teacher
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) depicts the fictional town of Malgudi, in which he sets mostof his works, as a typical South Indian town. Since Malgudi is formed as the microcosmof India, it was through Malgudi and Malgudians ... -
Colonising the Mind in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)The process of colonisation attributes pre-determined roles for both the coloniser and the colonised, which aims at establishing a power relationship between the two. A supposed superiority of the coloniser over his subjects ... -
Constructing the Textual Psyche: The Employment of Cyberspace and Psycho-spatial Chronotopes in Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook and Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)The novel’s narrative chronotope and the text’s relationship with its author and the reader are crucial elements for analysing how writing and reading processes correspond to the actualisation process of a work. While ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
(De)monstrating the Other: Monstrosity as Performance in Middle English Romances
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022-07-07)This study argues that in the selected fourteenth and fifteenth-century Middle English romances, namely, Guy of Warwick (c. 1330), Richard Coer de Lyon (c. 1330), Sir Gowther (late 15th c.) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...
