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 ...

This study argues that the Orpheus myth is originally a transition between goddess cultures and patriarchal religions by revealing the in betweenness of the myth and to what purpose it serves through the works of Ovid’s ...

This M.A. thesis problematizes extant approaches in contemporary theories of metafiction to recent ‘metafictional’ works, Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-two-birds, by studying ...

This study aims to demonstrate how oppression and resistance are represented on the plane of language in the two examples of critical dystopias. The works that are chosen for detailed analysis are The Handmaid’s Tale by ...

The use of double-talk becomes the female discourse in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Srpuhi Dussap’s Mayda. This method as female literary strategy, also termed the style of palimpsest, gives the woman writer the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...