Short Stories in Global Literature

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…

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…

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

• MELİKE GÖKCAN

Modern öykü diğer türlerle girdiği ilişkiye ve yararlandığı edebî teknik ve formlara göre sınıflandırılabilir. Buna göre, mizahi öykü, teatral öykü, portre öykü, röportaj öykü, mektup öykü, anı/günlük öykü, tezli öykü, melodramatik öykü, dramatik öykü, gotik öykü olmak üzere on alt tür ortaya çıkmaktadır. İkili tasnif…

• OKTAY YİVLİ

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…

With their brevity, ascetic style, and lack of resolutions, Raymond Carver's minimalist short stories have often served as an example of an unstylized and even clumsy attempt to depict the more prosaic aspects of everyday life, resulting in a literature of utter banality. Against the background of the unquestioned cul…

• DANIEL JUST

The debut novel of Zadie Smith, White Teeth, handles the notions of “history” and “root” momentously. The novel, which presents the characters’ past and root with many minor stories, functions as a historical bond connecting the past to the present and the future. As a postcolonial and multicultural novel, White Teeth…

• SEDA ARIKAN

This paper explores how Istanbul fantasies in A. S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” (1994) function as a critique of British patriarchal constructions of femininity. In Orientalism Postmodernism and Globalism, Bryan Turner argues that “the Orient in Western imagination is often perceived as the fantastic,…

• AYŞE NAZ BULAMUR BAYPINAR

Bu çalışmada Ömer Seyfettin’in hikâyelerindeki kadın tipler ve işlevleri incelenmeye çalışılmıştır. Amaç Türk edebiyatında hem hikâye türünün seviye kazanması, hem de Milli Edebiyat Hareketi (1911-1923)’ni başlatma ve yön verme konusunda önemli bir görevi yerine getirmiş olan yazarın hikâyelerinde kadın tiplerin hangi…

• RAMİS KARABULUT

This paper examines the strategies Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, and Margaret Atwood employ in their revisionist mythmaking project to disclose and denounce the detrimental impact of patriarchal norms and institutions on women and gender equality. The poets rewrite classical myths and fairy tales this time to tell the…

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is an English writer and poet of the 20th century. He wrote many novels, short stories, and poems reflecting human psychology. His short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is an autobiographical work delineating the mother-son and father-son relationships with reference to the Freudian theory…

• ÖZGÜ ŞEKER

This paper examines the strategies Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, and Margaret Atwood employ in their revisionist mythmaking project to disclose and denounce the detrimental impact of patriarchal norms and institutions on women and gender equality. The poets rewrite classical myths and fairy tales this time to tell the…

• BURCU AKKOYUN