• 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 ...
• 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.)
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• (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 ...
• 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.)
• 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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