Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Formations of hospitality in documentary theatre :|reverberations of mass media and human rights violations 
    Atasoy, Merve. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This dissertation inquires how documentary theatre, which depends mostly on factual material and uses similar techniques as media, can subvert the hierarchies that often emerge in media’s representation of the Other. In ...
  • The lyric as the voice of pain:|Individual suffering in contemporary Anglo-American poetry 
    Sıkık, Bircan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    There is an emerging trend in contemporary studies on lyric poetry, namely the exploration of the social, moral, ethical, and worldly aspects of the lyric, a genre that has been viewed as the realm of the subjective. ...
  • Rewriting Antigone, rethinking the political subject 
    Bodur, Ekin. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Taking Sophocles’ Antigone as its focal point, this dissertation aims to analyse how the tragedy is interpreted in modern philosophy and psychoanalytical theory. Through close reading of the works of G.W.F. Hegel, Jacques ...
  • If this is life: rethinking the modern subject through the aporia of biopolitics 
    Aktokmakyan, Maral. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Drawing on the discussion of biopolitical modernity in the thoughts of Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt, this thesis focuses on the biopoliticized life as manifested in the works of Zabel Esayan‘s Among the Ruins, Hagop ...
  • Authorial intrusion as a technique of self-conscious narration in the English novel 
    Ceylan, Fevziye Deniz (Tarba). (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.)
    The use of authorial intrusion gives a self-conscious quality to the novel by underlining the distance between its fictional world and the real world from which the reader and the writer approach to that fiction. ...
  • The cauldron of story : a theory of narrative 
    Pavlik, Anthony John. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Stories are as old as the ability of human beings to communicate, and every culture both historically and geographically, appears to have its own body of narratives. Since the early Greeks, different theories of the nature ...
  • The city and catastrophe in 9/11 novels 
    Memiş, Bahar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In this thesis, I formulate ways of ethical responses to 9/11 as a catastrophe, problematizing how different strategies of ethical engagement change memory objects from an amalgamation of closed personal histories to ...
  • Relations and contraries in Charles Tomlinson's "The way of a world" 
    Bulutsuz, Sema. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1988., 1988.)
  • Personal narratives of non-belonging 
    Tuna, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis is a comparative study of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation in the context of their particular concern and problematization of the role of memory and language in the ...
  • Wallace Stevens & Melih Cevdet Anday: the poetics of supreme fiction 
    Batu, Pelin, 1978- (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    The distance between the physical and metaphysical, the real and unreal cannot be measured, but it is precisely a preoccupation with this distance that creates the poems and fictions of Stevens and Anday. The focus of my ...
  • Narrating ravishment in early modern English literature 
    Kurtulan, Firdevs İdil. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In early modern English, “ravishment” was an ambiguous term that could mean sexual violation, or abduction. This thesis moves from the ambiguity inherent in the early modern application of “ravishment” to look at narratives ...
  • How the world changes dystopias :|an ecocritical study of evolving climate fiction novels 
    Erer, Eda Begüm. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    There is a deep lack of attention to the discussions of climate change, both in general and in literature. The scientific data suggests that we are at a point of no return when with global warming and we will face great ...
  • Staging avatarization :|potentiality, simultaneity, and in-betweenness in contemporary theatre 
    Aktan, Osman Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis examines three American contemporary plays in the context of avatarization, which is characterized by three key features: potentiality, simultaneity, in-betweenness. Through the framework of these three pillars, ...
  • Metafictional representations of trauma 
    Üçkardeşler, Uğur Yankı. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This study explores the representation of trauma in three metafictional novels that deal with trauma in the last half century: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969/2009), Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor (1999/2000) and ...
  • Capacities and ill health :|Deleuzian ethics in the Flame Alphabet and Sıcak Kafa 
    Şen, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis explores the possibilities that Deleuzian ethics offers—the investment in the body's capacities to enter affective and transformative relations, thus lead a response(able) life—as they become manifest in two ...
  • A threshold to an object oriented ontology :|metacognitive mystery tale as a hermeneutic pandemonium 
    Doğalı, Canberk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis reads three novels of the genre called "metacognitive mystery tale". These novels are The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino, and The Serialist by David Gordon. This thesis ...
  • The time element in "four quartes": |a Bergsonian approach 
    Akyüz, Sevda. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1988., 1988.)
  • The nineteenth-century politics of autoethnography and nationalism in the novels of Morier and Morgan 
    Öz, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This study explores the representations of nationhood and national identity in the context of British and Ottoman Empires in two nineteenth century English novels, the English writer James Justinian Morier’s Ayesha, the ...
  • Traumatic testimonies :|trauma, temporal hybridity, and language in The God of Small Things and Lolita 
    Oliveira, Cristiane Regina de. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997) narrate the traumatic effects of societal transgressions, namely pedophilia and incest. The authors distort literary notions of time and ...
  • (Non-)spectacles of discipline :|institutions in the plays of Stoppard, Wesker, Pinter, and Nesin 
    Sönmez, Esra Misem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    “We are neither in the amphitheater nor on the stage, but in the panoptic machine,” Foucault observes. Yet the stage remains steadily interested in the panoptic machine. Hubs of institutional power continue to concern ...