Modernist Literature and Criticism

This book looks beyond delity to emphasize how each adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's short stories functions as a creative response to a text, foregrounding the signi cance of its uidity, transtextuality, and genre. The adaptations analysed range from the rst to the most recent and draw attention to the uidity of textual…

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• MUHİTTİN ATAMAN

Màster Oficial en Construcció i Representació d'Identitats Culturals (CRIC), director Dr. Enric Monforte

Horace’s second epode features a rich usurer named Alfius who imagines the pleasures of rural life. In his account, the country provides a haven from financial circuits of credit and interest, howe...

The patriarchal society of Victorian England constructed its system of gender relations with reference to the qualities perceived to be specifically masculine or feminine. Men were deemed to be active and resourceful, whereas women were associated with passivity and self-sacrifice. In consequence, the public arena was…

Commonly discussed as a product of the emotional and spiritual pain, Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has been also observed to be a representational vehicle employed to discuss the meaning of life through Woolf’s distinctive and subtle skill to use colorswhich are external indicators of her inner realities, evoking various…

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• GÖRKEM NEŞE DESTUR

The aim of this article is to display the socially conscious stance of Oscar Wilde in the capitalist Victorian society with a deeper vision of it in his children’s stories, especially “The Happy Prince”. It is an indisputable fact that Wilde has always been associated with the aesthetic movement of ‘Art for Art’s Sake…

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Howard Brenton's fantasy play, Thirteenth Night, is the movement of Shakespeare's Macbeth in a not so distant future left wing totalitarian Britain for a Socialist government. It is generally considered as a feedback of tiptoeing oppression and constriction of socialism. In the opening part, Jack Beaty, the communist…

George Moore in The Untilled Field (1903) and T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922) placed their characters in a “waste land” which is desolate and scarred with ruined cottages and falling bridges. T...

The general focus on Atonement has been on Briony’s attempt to dominate the reality that surrounds her. However, there is a gap in respect of Briony’s motive for subverting reality in such a way that she can recreate herself as the heroine of her writing, consequently allowing her to “dispel her insignificance” (McEwa…

Regarded as one of the masterpieces of modernist literature, James Joyce’s Ulysses was serialized between 1918 and 1920, and was published in 1922 in book form. Both in the period of its serialization and since its publication, there have been frequent discussions about Ulysses, and scholars have tried to tackle it fr…