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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 ... -
"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, ... -
Loss, Violence, and Trauma in Debbie Tucker Green's Stoning Mary and Random
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)Debbie Tucker Green (date of birth unknown- ) is a prolific black British playwright of the twenty-first century. In her plays, she explores the local and global problems of black people living in Britain, Africa, and ... -
“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) ... -
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. This ... -
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 ... -
“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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Agency and Recognition of Animals in the First World War and Its Aftermath in Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse and Megan Rix’s A Soldier’s Friend
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-01)This thesis aims to discuss the contribution of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse (1982) and Megan Rix’s A Soldier’s Friend (2014), both portraying animal characters in leading roles, towards the recognition of the actions ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
