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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 ...
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 ...
"Out of the Maze of Dualisms": Posthuman Space in Mario Petrucci and Alice Oswald's Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020-07-23)
In the light of recent theories of posthumanism that promote a non-anthropocentric perspective, this study examines the poems of contemporary British poets Mario Petrucci and Alice Oswald and argues that they write posthuman ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From Ignorance to Experience: Epistemology and Power in Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed and P. D. James’s The Children of Men
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
ATASOY, Emrah. “From Ignorance to Experience: Epistemology and Power in Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed and P. D. James’s The Children of Men.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Ankara, 2019.
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“Words as Bearers of History” : Testimony and Trauma in Seamus Heaney's Early Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-11-18)
This study argues that in Seamus Heaney’s early poetry there is a paradoxical attitude towards the therapeutic function of the act of bearing witness to trauma. Heaney’s early collections, Wintering Out (1972), North (1975) ...
