M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • 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, ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Between stories and stage: narrative presence in Samuel Beckett‘s dramatic art 
    Öztürk, Dilek. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This study intends to analyze drama and narrative on Samuel Beckett‘s stage within the context of storytelling. Narrative theory is taken as a departure point here, for Beckett‘s drama with its actor-narrators, never-ending ...

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