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  • “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, ...
  • Evidence of growth :|a study of the poetry of Theodore Roethke 
    Gardner, Jacquelyn. (1966.)
  • 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 ...
  • Future conceptions of language in contemporary science fiction novel 
    Koparan, Can. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis focuses on three contemporary science fiction novels, Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and China Miéville’s Embassytown, in which those who are deprived of self-determination ...
  • 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 ...
  • Historiographic metafiction in postcolonial literature: Foe, Wide Sargasso Sea and Midnight's Children 
    Turan, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This M.A. thesis aims to scrutinize the use of historiographic metafiction in postcolonial literature. The imaginative (re)construction of the past provides the opportunity to tell alternate stories/histories which place ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • Major influences on the formation of Ben Jonson's satiric strategy: |a study of the "comicall satyres" 
    Paker, Saliha. (Thesis (Assoc. Prof.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1982., 1982.)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Metamorphosing selves and narrations in The Interrogation and The Magus 
    Günekan, Melis. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The present study focuses on metamorphosis as a trope in one French and one English novel, both of the twentieth century. (Trope is defined in this thesis as a figure rather than a motif or theme.) Both of these novel ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Narratives of erotic desire and discourses on desire: from discord to concord 
    Alkaç, Aylin. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    In this study narratives of erotic desire written in different periods of history are examined in terms of their relationship with the dominant discourses of desire of their time. The psychoanalytical approach to desire ...

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