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 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…

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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…

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

• MERVE SARIKAYA ŞEN

No Homelike Place:The Lesson of History in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World Timothy Wright (bio) [Errata] Early in Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), the narrator Etsuko makes a grim admission. Her eldest daughter, brought to England as a child when Etsuko left Japan after the w…

Written by a scholar–an expert in the field of women and writing, with a focus on the representations of women in mythology and women writers’ re/vision of these myths–this book can be read as a product of an extended interest, already evident in her earlier study Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A.S. Byatt’s Possessio…

• MİNE ÖZYURT KILIÇ

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the English translation of Elif Shafak’s Bit Palas from the perspective of ecocriticism. As ecocriticism has emerged as a subdiscipline of cultural studies which has affected translation studies to a large extent, one can readily establish a relationship between ecology, cultur…

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