Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • The politics of nostalgia in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Bacigalupi’s the Windup Girl 
    Kabak, Murat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This study explores the representation of nostalgia in two dystopian novels, the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) and the American writer Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). While there are ...
  • HIV/AIDS in American theatre :|queerness, spatio-temporalities, and emancipation 
    Duman, Çağdaş Özerk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines American HIV/AIDS theater in the context of time and space. Drawing mainly from queer approaches to time and space, it explores the plays of Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz (1990), Cheryl L. West’s ...
  • The early modern imagination :|the historical drama of Bond, Churchill, Brenton and McLean 
    Erdurucan, Büşra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis, with particular focus on British historical drama set in early modern Britain, explores how the genre, through its emphasis on the Other, reflects the fictional nature of national identity. The selected ...
  • Staging the law :|verbatim theatre and access to justice 
    Kalkan Aydın, Nilhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis suggests that the term “access to justice” should be interpreted as broadly as possible in order to produce a smooth, effective and fair form of justice. Specifically, I argue that verbatim theatre, besides its ...
  • An ecopoetic inquiry into Emily Dickinson's dwelling earthward 
    Artukarslan, Ayşe Beyza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis re-introduces Emily Dickinson as a nature poet and furthermore, an ecopoet through the examination of selected poems with an emphasis on the unique features applied by the poet from breaking down grammar rules ...
  • The cross-fertilization of the botanical and the literary 
    Şahingöz, Ayşenur Feyza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Plants are highly complex beings with sophisticated strategies for surviving, thriving and coexisting with fellow members of their own and other species on this planet. Yet the Aristotelean notion that plants are passive ...
  • Haunted :|tracing the figure of the ghost in drama 
    Kılınç, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In the long interval between the beginnings of the drama and the contemporary stage, the ghost, with its fundamental liminality, remains one of the most ubiquitous and relevant supernatural figures that appear on theatrical ...
  • Man-animal-machine:|Exploring the posthuman life in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Lady Chatterley’s Lover 
    Taşdemir, Tülay Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, I aim to present a Deleuzean posthumanist reading of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In my research, I have mainly focused on how these two early 20th ...
  • Mark Twain's dual vision of Hawaii :|sublime wilderness in nineteenth-century America 
    Eryılmaz, Gülsima. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    When Mark Twain set sail for his journey to the Sandwich Islands in 1866, the frontiers in America had not been closed yet, and the concept of “wilderness” was undergoing a significant transformation toward becoming "a ...
  • The long job: Pound, Dante and the epic ambition 
    Sarı, Dilara. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The legacy of Ezra Pound has long been a source of awe, disturbance and confusion; more so than almost any other poet of the modern age. The Cantos serves as the foundation to that legacy as representative of decades-long ...
  • Evidence of growth :|a study of the poetry of Theodore Roethke 
    Gardner, Jacquelyn. (1966.)
  • Triumphant evocations: The visualization and textualization of post-bop jazz in the 1950s 
    İnce, Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Jazz, since its early conception has always played a definitive role in American arts and culture. In the tumultuous post-war era of the 1950s that simultaneously cherished mass consumption, the avant-garde turn jazz took ...
  • Technologies of the self in current autobiographical practices 
    Pehlivan, Orhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Foucault’s ‘technologies of the self’ is a useful term for talking about autobiography where we see writers give meaning to their past experiences. His analyses of ‘technologies of the self’, along with other notions ...
  • Narrating the war :|Jacob’s Room, The Return of the Soldier, and A Farewell to Arms 
    İrenci, Saliha. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This M.A. thesis examines Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in relation to the possibilities of narrating personal accounts war, with special ...
  • Keats’ “Lamia:” the serpentine dialectic 
    Pekgöz, Kürşat K. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis is an attempt to disentangle the serpentine dialectic of Keats’ “Lamia.” I am positing three transformations in the development of the mixoparthenos figure: monstrous mother, a cannibalistic and vampiric phantom, ...
  • Narrative voice in feminist drama: a study of Adrienne Kennedy, Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane 
    Kansız, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Much as narratives are an essential part of human life, the scholarly research on narratives under the branch of narratology is quite recent. Particularly the Russian formalism and French structuralism played a vital role ...
  • Violence and sexuality in In-Yer-Face drama: Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, Mark Ravenhill’s Some Explicit Polaroids, and Anthony Neilson’s Penetrator 
    Kan, Aysun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In-yer-face theatre arising in the 1990s in Britain is generally renowned for staging extreme and explicit images of violence and sexuality. This study aims to discuss the nature of violence and sexuality in in-yer-face ...
  • Humanist humanism: Aziz Nesin’s Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five 
    Griffin, Hardy Micajah. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This project begins by demonstrating how Aziz Nesin and Kurt Vonnegut’s novels are part of a trajectory of humanist works challenging institutionalized bodies of hegemonic discourse. The challenge taken up in writing such ...
  • The moral and political worlds of Macbeth 
    Kabal, Lamia. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Unlike Shakespeare’s greatest villains such as Richard III and Iago, Macbeth is not really comfortable in his role as murderer and usurper thanks to his acute awareness that he is acting against the moral and political ...
  • “Descending into us from we know not whence”: Marilynne Robinson and the Emersonian tradition 
    Kotan, İpek. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis argues that contemporary American writer Marilynne Robinson’s fiction is informed by the Emersonian tradition, and accordingly seeks to trace and establish this influence in her three novels, Housekeeping, ...