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The Use Of Dark Humour In Evelyn Waugh's The Sword Of Honour Trilogy
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Humour is a significant component of human expression, playing an essential role in various dimensions of human experience. It has the connective power and offers a distinctive lens through which societal norms and ... -
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 ... -
A Fanonian Reading of the Construction of Kenyan National Culture in the Plays The Trial of Dedan Kimathi and I Will Marry When I Want
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)After gaining independence in the 20th century, several formerly colonised African nations started to define culture according to their own national literature, dispelling the myth that the British introduced culture to ... -
“She ys ded!”: Loss and Transformation in Pearl, The Book of The Duchess and Orpheus and Eurydice
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This study argues that in three selected medieval poems, Pearl by the Pearl-poet, The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer, and Orpheus and Eurydice by Robert Henryson, the personae experience profound introspective and ... -
Science, Politics and Utopia in Margaret Cavendish's Works
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-07-17)As one of the most prolific female figures of the seventeenth century, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), wrote a great number of literary works in the male-dominated literary world of the time. ... -
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 ... -
Self-Fashioning: A Rebellious Act in Renaissance English Drama
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Under the influence of Renaissance Humanism, the concept of the “ideal-self” was shaped in the light of the classics, and individual glory took on a new meaning among both the literati and the readers/ playgoers of the ... -
Traces of Collective Memory in A. K. Ramanujan's Poetry
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This thesis employs the intersection of collective memory studies and postcolonial studies in examining selected poems from A. K. Ramanujan’s The Striders (1966) and Second Sight (1986). As such, it centres around two ... -
Identity Formation against Oppression in Robert Bage's Man as He Is and Hermsprong; or, Man as He Is Not
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This thesis argues that Robert Bage (1730-1801) uses anti-colonial discourse and the identity formation of the protagonists in his novels Man as He Is (1792) and Hermsprong; or Man as He Is Not (1796) in order to criticize ... -
Struggles for Environmental Justice in John Burnside's Living Nowhere, Christie Watson's Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, and Marcel Theroux's Far North
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This dissertation examines the literary representations of environmental justice struggles in John Burnside’s Living Nowhere (2003), Christie Watson’s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (2011), and Marcel Theroux’s Far North (2009) ... -
Pre-Cartesian Representations of Animals and Humans in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Edmund Spenser’s (1552/53-1599) eminent sixteenth century epic, The Faerie Queene (1590-1596), truly proves to be a canonical text of English literature as it has received almost constant critical attention from the time ... -
Abjection of Women and Womanhood in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The aim of this thesis is examining the adverse representations of women and womanhood in “Book I: The Legend of the Knight of the Redcrosse, or Holinesse,” “Book II: The Legend of Sir Guyon, or of Temperaunce,” and “Book ... -
Swimming Against the Current: Rethinking Orientalism in Julia Pardoe's The City of the Sultan and Grace Ellison's An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Throughout centuries, travel writing has been a popular genre of transferring experiences among writers and readers about unknown places. While it has been a valuable study area for not only cultural studies but also ... -
The Shifting Faces of Epic Heroes: The Evolutionary Trajectory of Heroic Ideals in William Davenant’s Gondibert and John Milton’s Paradise Lost
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This study argues that in the selected works of the seventeenth-century English epics, William Davenant’s Gondibert (1651) and John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), the epic heroes are constructed as part of the poets’ ... -
Navigating the Middle Road: Sir Walter Scott’s Representation of the Scottish Identity in Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field and The Lady of the Lake
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Regarded as the father of the historical novel and recognised for his ground-breaking influence on the genre, Sir Walter Scott played a pivotal role in reinstating Scottish identity amid Britain’s dominance in nineteenth-century ... -
The Playwrights’ Ironic Criticism of the Post-Truth Discourse of Institutions in Selected British and Irish Plays about the Iraq War
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The concept of post-truth, theorised by Ralph Keyes in 2004 and used to denote the normalisation of lying in modern societies, remained popular for a long time due to political discourses during the American Presidential ... -
Animetaphors as Political Tools in Volpone by Ben Jonson, Macbeth by William Shakespeare and The Bird in a Cage by James Shirley
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The study of animals in literature and culture has always been a subject approached by many scholars from varying disciplines; yet now the animals are subject of a close scholarly investigation, delving into the deeper ... -
Fathers and Sons: Men and Masculinities in the Contemporary British Novel
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This dissertation aims to explore diverse representations of fathers and sons in three contemporary British novels: Amongst Women (1990) by John McGahern, About A Boy (1998) by Nick Hornby, The White Family (2002) by Maggie ... -
The Use of Epic and Romance Elements in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-12-14)Since its publication in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has played a prominent role in the development of the genre that will be known as fantasy literature. As an established medievalist himself, J.R.R. Tolkien drew ... -
A Reading of Medieval English Society in the Wakefield Cycle and the Chester Cycle
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-11-15)In the Middle Ages, mystery plays were performed by the clergy in the Church on the Corpus Christi Day to teach the biblical stories to the illiterate people; however, later these stories developed to include earthly ...