Literature: history, themes, analysis

The continuity between the romance and the novel genres has been undermined since the latter's emergence in the eighteenth century despite the conceptual confusion regarding these genres at the time. Many critics de-contextualize the novel as if it came into being merely as a reaction to and through a complete break w…

• HAKAN YILMAZ

The decolorization and mineralization of an azo dye, brilliant golden yellow (BGY, i¬max416 nm, i¥ = 7.81 x 103 Lmol-1 cm-1) by Fenton and photo-Fenton processes were investigated. The rate of decolorization is strongly dependent on the pH, initial concentrations of the dye, Fe(II) and H2O2. The effect of these para…

• MERYEM AYAN

In Penny Dreadful, John Logan creates a ‘confluent’ and urban diegetic world which is characterized by the merging of dualities. While seamlessly bringing together characters from such classical works of Victorian Gothic fiction as Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Dracula, and through the references by th…

• SİNAN AKILLI

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, colonialism has had great influence in reshaping geographical, social and cultural identities around the world. As Franz Fanon argues, it has not only aimed at holding captive and emptying the colonised of all form and content, but has also attempted to distort and disfigure the past of oppresse…

• HALİM KARA

Dionysian Music, Patriotic Sentiment, and Tennyson's Idylls of the King Ayşe Çelikkol (bio) In The Coming of Arthur, the first idyll in the narrative sequence of Idylls of the King,1 the youthful Gawain, who is not yet a knight, wanders a terrain that is not yet Arthur's: And Gawain went, and breaking into song Sprang…

The aim of this paper is to present the basic principles of new historicism through analysing Stephen Greenblatt’s two works: Resonance and Wonder and Invisible Bullets since new historicism is highly associated with Stephen Greenblatt. Social, political, and economic elements designate the literary works of a society…

• MEHMET AKİF BALKAYA

Regarding the eighteenth-century sentimental novel, critics have long argued that sentiment works to bond subjects and to accommodate subjects to society. The sentimental novel also teaches the reader how to die. Looking to Sarah Fielding’s The Adventures of David Simple (1744, 1753) and Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of F…

• JONATHAN COLEMAN WILLIAMS

Filistin’de kadın olmak, dahası kadın bir yazar olmak oldukça zordur. 1948 işgalinden beri bu topraklarda yaşayan kadın-erkek bütün Filistinliler kimlik sorunu yaşamaktadır. Bu sorun, 2001 sonrası Filistinlileri için daha büyük bir önem arzetmektedir. Çünkü Filistin edebiyatı daha ziyade bu dönem sonrası gelişmiş ve k…

• İBRAHİM YILMAZ

This article focuses on “Trifles” a timeless play written by Susan Glaspell. This play is revolutionary for several reasons: it focuses on the living conditions of 19th century women; it reinterprets the role of domestic space; and it shows how sisterhood is forged in domestic spheres. Domesticity becomes one of the d…

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1. IntroductionThe topics of sexuality and gender in The Picture of Gray have been discussed for decades. However, little has been said on issues like what happens when gender norms are opposed by characters in novel and how consequences of those actions were shaped by Oscar Wilde. When comes to Queer Theory, most aca…

Lady Mary Wroth is an innovative and unconventional figure both in terms of her personal background and herliterary production within the sixteenth century social and political context. She is the author of the first sonnetsequence written by a woman, the producer of the first prose romance by a female pen, and one of…

• MERVE AYDOĞDU ÇELİK