Literature: history, themes, analysis

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

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

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…

This article sheds light upon a nineteenth-century reader-response approach to The Turn of the Screw and ‘‘Daisy Miller’’grounded on an ethical basis that is shaped by dominant Victorian values, beliefs, and ideas concerning the catalytic role of family towards the proper raising of children, the importance of duty, t…

• KYRIAKI ASIATIDOU

This article aims to analyse three early modern city comedies, which are Thomas Dekker and John Webster's Westward Ho and Northward Ho, and Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston's Eastward Ho, to point to the intra-action between the human body and air. The analyses of these plays provide an insight into how air…

• ZÜMRE GİZEM ERİŞ

Catherine Chanter’s The Well depicts a water-scarce Britain where the fertile farm of the Ardingly couple becomes a site of exploitation by a spiritual community called the Sisters of the Rose. By setting her novel on a farm named The Well, Chanter constructs a spatial map that not only exposes the cult’s manipulative…

• SELİN ŞENCAN

1. Foreword by Cornelia Macsiniuc 2. The Idea of Literature as Critical Concern 3. Critical Theory in Classical Times and in the Middle Ages 4. The Renaissance: Philip Sydney and the Defensive Beginnings 5. The Seventeenth Century: John Dryden and Prescibing Literary Theory and Practice 6. The Victorian Age: Towards I…

Contrary to the women of the upper-class who found relatively ample space in the literature of the Victorian period, working-class women were not given due consideration, denigrated into a morally inferior position and pushed into the peripheries of the society. Janet Hamilton (1795-1873), however, appears as a Scotti…

Oscar Wilde was an author who resisted the social norms of his time. We can see several instances when he showed resistance, but when we read his works, we can still see the sense of duty that overwhelmed Victorian life. So it is crucial to examine what he did in his works while he became a kind of sexual martyr in hi…