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The Chronotopic Nature of Things in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Orlando
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)
Virginia Woolf’s novels are acknowledged as some of the most influential Modernist works dealing with issues of self and spirituality. However, her emphasis on materiality as an essential element in life and literature, ...
The Supernatural and Punishment in Coleridge's Selected Works
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)
The supernatural, apart from being an element widening the range of imagination in literature from past to present, is an agent in the daily lives, folk and religious beliefs of people for explaining the unknown. As one ...
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 ...
Liminality in Shakespeare's As You Like It, Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)
While the Elizabethan government exploited the theatre as a propagandist means, the Elizabethan stage was controlled by the regulations of patronage and censorship enacted on the playwrights in order to suppress oppositional ...
The Changing Status of Women in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
Gothic novels reflect social, economic, and cultural values of society and mirror the norms and codes of their time. It is possible to analyse such novels in terms of the ‘Woman Question’ which diverges from the traditional ...
(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 ...
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 ...
The Evolution of British and Irish Gothic Drama from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries within a Socio-Political Context
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
The Gothic emerged as a predominant genre from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Though it primarily started with the novel, the Gothic also became a prominent and popular dramatic genre. Albeit popular ...
Weaving the Ancient Greek Myths into Irish Identity: John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World and Tom Paulin's The Riot Act
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
Myths have always preserved their importance for their powerful representation of the socio-cultural development of a nation as they transmit the collective experience of the heroism of the past to ascertain the continuation ...
Posthuman Feminism in Michel Faber's Under the Skin and Naomi Alderman's The Power
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
This thesis examines Under the Skin (2000) by Michel Faber and The Power (2016) by Naomi Alderman through the lens of Posthuman Feminism. Featuring non-human female protagonists, these narratives challenge traditional ...
