Ph.D. Theses

 

Recent Submissions

  • Three ways of looking at negative capability: William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Mark Strand 
    Yurdaün, Nejat Cihan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Negative capability, coined by the romantic poet John Keats in early 19th Century, is a significant literary concept which defines the creative process and provides tentative guidelines determining the relation between a ...
  • The innocence of objects: commodification, collecting and fetishism in the Age of innocence and the Museum of innocence 
    Yağcıoğlu, Hülya. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This dissertation focuses on the personal and social interactions with material world, as seen in the practices of commodification, collecting, and fetishism in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and Orhan Pamuk’s The ...
  • The witch : heroine or anti-heroine 
    Gülçur, A. Lamia. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)
    The image of the witch has always been an important one in the minds of men. The conception, which was an integral part of human bellief, later lost all its power and became the symbol of the out-group and was in the process ...
  • Nation-building and Gallipoli: representations in Turkish, Australian and New Zealand literatures 
    Kirişci, Ayşe Candan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The battles of Gallipoli have a significant place in the recent history of Turkey, Australia and New Zealand. The war is considered to be a defining moment in the long process which shaped the development of their national ...
  • Oğuz Atay's dialogue with the Western canon in The Disconnected 
    Gürle, Fahrünnisa Meltem. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Drawing centrally upon the work of the Russian critic Mihail Bakhtin, this study compares Oğuz Atay’s poetics with those of the canonic authors, and demonstrates how he copes with the authority of the past while building ...
  • 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 ...
  • The creation of the monstrous other through metamorphosis 
    Batu, Pelin, 1978- (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    Every age and culture has created its own Others, some in the form of monsters who mirror not only our archetypal fears but our contemporary anxieties. Metamorphosis always involves otherizing and certain monsters are ...
  • "A thing one knows not how to name:" the female grotesque in early modern English drama 
    Seval, Ayşem. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Deriving from the ambivalence inherent in the concept of the grotesque, this dissertation aims to investigate how the female grotesque may offer possibilities for problematising stereotypical images of women as fools or ...
  • Shakespeare and authority :|the intersection of theatre, locality and politics in Turkey 
    Günekan, Melis. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In this dissertation, I investigate the complex phenomenon of political Shakespeare adaptations in modern Turkish theatre and examine five distinct cases from independent theatre artists, Can Yücel’s Bahar Noktası (1980), ...
  • The intersection of class and religion in Victorian novels of the 1850s 
    Kotan, İpek. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In my dissertation, I focus on a set of English novels written in the 1850s in order to analyze how the fiction of the 1850s, the mid-Victorian period, engaged with social issues in ways that resembled as well as differed ...
  • Samuel Beckett and communicational aesthetics: Between resonant worlds and material regimes 
    Yaltır, Selvin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    While Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre manifests a wide array of communicational gestures, from voices and dialogues to more intricate webs of interrelation among bodies, affects, gestures, technological tools and voiceovers, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The lyric as the voice of pain:|Individual suffering in contemporary Anglo-American poetry 
    Sıkık, Bircan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    There is an emerging trend in contemporary studies on lyric poetry, namely the exploration of the social, moral, ethical, and worldly aspects of the lyric, a genre that has been viewed as the realm of the subjective. ...
  • Rewriting Antigone, rethinking the political subject 
    Bodur, Ekin. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Taking Sophocles’ Antigone as its focal point, this dissertation aims to analyse how the tragedy is interpreted in modern philosophy and psychoanalytical theory. Through close reading of the works of G.W.F. Hegel, Jacques ...
  • 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 ...
  • Authorial intrusion as a technique of self-conscious narration in the English novel 
    Ceylan, Fevziye Deniz (Tarba). (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.)
    The use of authorial intrusion gives a self-conscious quality to the novel by underlining the distance between its fictional world and the real world from which the reader and the writer approach to that fiction. ...