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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...