Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

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…

• SERPİL GÜLSÜM OPPERMANN

Taking into account the material feminist theories of "agency," "matter," and "body," this essay examines to what extent material feminisms and trans-corporeality can be productive models for conceptualizing feminist ecocriticism, an anti-phallogocentric ecocritical theory that analyzes the complex dynamics of materia…

• SERPİL GÜLSÜM OPPERMANN

There is a two-way relationship between literature and psychology coming together on the same intersection at the point of essential people and human behavior. As it is possible to approach literature and to evaluate literary works with the resources of psychology, and of literary sciences, so it is also possible to c…

• BADEGÜL CAN EMİR

This essay explores the mythic Medusa archetype, used as a symbol of female psychic power in the writings of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Iris Murdoch, and Sylvia Plath.

• GILLIAN MARY ELIZABETH ALBAN

Although the studies on the use of literature in teaching English have been increasing abroad, in our country, particularly in public high schools, only English grammar is being taught.The students who are expected to memorise these rules cannot use English.The aim of this study is to exhibit why and how short-story c…

Reader-response theorists such as I. A. Richards (1974), L. Rosenblatt (1993), S. Fish (1970), and W. Iser (1978) argue that reading is an act which is actualized in the form of a "transaction" between the text and the reader.They observe that each reading activity is a unique experience in which the reader is involve…

In English literature, the Bildungsroman, or the novel of formation, emerged as one of the most popular literary types of fiction among Victorian realists and many of the most important works of realism are Bildungsromane. But the Bildungsroman did not emerge suddenly on literary scene in the Victorian Age. The presen…

• PETRU GOLBAN

Riffataire, Genete gibi postmodern edebiyat kuramcıları metinler arası ilişkiler ağını odak noktasına yerleştirdikleri yeni bir edebi tenkit metodu geliştirdiler

• MELİKE GÖKCAN

Research Article| March 01 2007 The Violence of the Archive Wisam Mansour Wisam Mansour Fatih University wmansour@fatih.edu.tr Wisam Mansour is an associate professor of English literature at Fatih University in Istanbul. He previously taught at various universities in Cyprus, Jordan, and Turkey. He is widely publishe…

• VİSAM MANSUR

Twenty-first century Africa is currently a continent of culturally diverse groups of people, many opposing governments, and fragmented identities due to its long history of colonization and the drastical changes following its independence. Accordingly, the study of post-colonial African literature cannot be complete w…

• ŞULE ÖZÜN

Returning to the much-noted relationship between Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea , and noting the central role of architectural structures in both texts, this essay analyses the ways in which the later novel 'revisits' and 'reinhabits' its forerunner. It is argued that the symbolic…

• TREVOR JOHN HOPE

When asked by an interviewer to define her key themes in The PowerBook, Jeanette Winterson replied “Oh, boundaries, desire, time, identity.”1 As most critics agree, Winterson reworks the themes tha...

• MİNE ÖZYURT KILIÇ