Contemporary Literature and Criticism

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams takes the reader into space to give a clear view of the consequences of urbanization with a humorous take on the intricate webs of bureaucracy. The parallelism between the protagonist Arthur Dent’s loss of his living space due to a council decision to demolish his…

The objective of this study is to analyse the predominating narrative unreliability in Kazuo Ishiguro‟s The Remains of the Day (1989) within the framework of rhetorical narratology with a specific focus upon the notion of subjectivity. The homodiegetic narrator, the ageing butler Stevens, is far from fitting unproblem…

• ELİF TOPRAK SAKIZ

The immanence of terror, regardless of its source, is evident not only in the protagonists' behaviour, but also in their choice of methods, pathological copies of the enemy like those made by a retrovirus of the attacked cell.

This essay both reflects upon ecocriticism's investment in cultivating environmental consciousness at a distance from critical reflexivity and explores its theoretical discontents. Arguing for the necessity of bringing theory into praxis, the essay suggests that ecocriticism needs to cross the threshold between discur…

In the context of the current Eurozone crisis, this paper argues that the economic crisis has provoked a crisis of identity in the EU. This paper examines popular discourse on Germany and Angela Merkel in the Eurozone periphery, France and the UK according to which Europe is effectively being colonised by Germany—the…

The author posits that postmodern fictions can create environmental awareness, as they incorporate ecological issues in their narratives in a dialogic interaction with their textual strategies as well as disclose how the discursive constructions of nature shape and condition the human valuation and understanding of th…

The author posits that postmodern fictions can create environmental awareness, as they incorporate ecological issues in their narratives in a dialogic interaction with their textual strategies as well as disclose how the discursive constructions of nature shape and condition the human valuation and understanding of th…

• SERPİL GÜLSÜM OPPERMANN

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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

Our physical experience of architecture is apparently finite -bound by such constraints as time, place, and mobility.But literature offers us the opportunity to inhabit much different architecture in many different times and through this serves to strengthen our understanding of the chief poet ic resonance of architec…

Our physical experience of architecture is apparently finite -bound by such constraints as time, place, and mobility.But literature offers us the opportunity to inhabit much different architecture in many different times and through this serves to strengthen our understanding of the chief poet ic resonance of architec…

• TAYYİBE NUR ÇAĞLAR
• ZEYNEP TUNA ULTAV

"Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form." English Studies, 99(2), pp. 222–223

• MERVE SARIKAYA ŞEN