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Browsing İngiliz Edebiyatı by Author "Graduate Program in English Literature."

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  • "The brain-is wider than the sky-": nature and the sublime American self in Emerson and Whitman 
    Sheridan, Michael Douglas. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis̕ primary focus is on the relationship between nature and the development of adistinctly American selfhood, as revealed through the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson andWalt Whitman. The primary framework through ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The erotics of love and death in victorian poetry 
    Sıkık, Bircan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The Victorian period is well-known for its constructed understanding of "sexuality" which is one of the products of the patriarchal, imperialist and religious discourse of the age. The Victorian concept of sexuality exerts ...
  • The limit-experience: following blanchot towards the other in speech and in Literature 
    Kutelas, Vanina Berin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis examines Maurice Blanchot's reflections on the human being's relation with the Other (Autrui) and/or Presence, notions that are impossible to experience and subsume under knowledge. Close readings of Blanchot's ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The other histories of romanticism in the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Abdiilhak Hamid Tarhan 
    Çamoğlu, Arif Samet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Numerous scholarly definitions have been applied to Romanticism, each suggesting a specific set of criteria that can cover the term as broadly as possible in aesthetic, political, philosophical or historical concerns. One ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 uses and limitations of humour in postcolonial immigrant literature: The Mimic Men, Admiring Silence and White Teeth 
    Kuruçay, Gökçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This study aims to analyze the employment of humour as a tool of resistance and protection in the cross-cultural encounters by the postcolonial immigrants of the metropolis. Subversive humour, which has proven to be a ...
  • Tracing Bloch's "anticipatory illumination" in Bacon's New Atlantis and Cavendish's The Blazing World 
    Cemiloğlu, Nina. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The aim of this study is to trace two aspects of Ernst Bloch's "anticipatory illumination" in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1626) and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666). Bloch is a twentieth-century Marxist ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Vanishing books & lost writers: question of authorship in Paul Auster's novels 
    Yılmaz, Aylin Birsen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis investigates the notion of authorship as represented in three of Paul Auster's late novels, namely The Book of Illusions (2002), Oracle Night (2003) and Invisible (2009). Focusing on the relationship between ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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