Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

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

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

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

The rise of the expressive theory of authorship in the literary movement that we call Romanticism radicalised the ideasthat the artist is a genius and the work of art is autonomous from the actual reality as it results from an imaginary universe whichis specific to a certain artist. Romantic emphasis on subjective exp…

Harold Pinter is one of the most outstanding and important post-war British dramatists.He has written theatre plays, radio plays, screenplays for films, sketches and poems.His plays deal with political matters.Especially his play One for the Road (1984) is openly political.Even though Pinter has stated that this play…

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• MÜRÜVVET MİRA PINAR DOLAYKAYA

The study explores the immigrant’s identity crisis in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift from the lens of hybridity and liminality. It analyses how the host society determines identity formation and the tension they experience between their cultural heritage and the prevailing norms of the host culture. As described by…

• FİKRET GÜVEN

Literary texts, which require special or unusual language, play an important role in language teaching.They have the traces of the real socio-cultural world surrounding them while they represent a fictional world.In these texts the most used words in daily life are sampled because they reflect human life.Short stories…

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This article presents an analysis of the epic Beowulf, and the novel Grendel under the light of deconstruction theory. It also compares and contrasts the two works in terms of plot, characterization, and theme. The epic Beowulf is an influential text in English Literature and has been reinterpreted variously by differ…