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Item Metafictional representations of trauma(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.) Üçkardeşler, Uğur Yankı.; Kayışcı, Burcu.; Alkaç, Aylin.This study explores the representation of trauma in three metafictional novels that deal with trauma in the last half century: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969/2009), Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor (1999/2000) and Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (2019). While there is extensive research tracing the various themes in literary depictions of trauma, there is a gap in the studies of metafictional novels that fails to adequately address the connection between metafiction and representation of trauma in literary texts. Therefore, this study fills this gap in the existing scholarship with its focus on the metafictional representations of trauma. Building on the existing interdisciplinary approaches to trauma studies and metafiction, this M.A. thesis demonstrates how metafiction is an apt narrative strategy to convey the inherent resistance in traumatic experience to representation through the discourses of totalizing meta-narratives. By exposing how trauma manifests itself on the psyche of the victim, Slaughterhouse-Five, Survivor and The Testaments reveal that its representation also requires unconventional means of narration. All three novels not only self-reflexively question the limits of narrativity in representing trauma but also attempt at alternative narratives that are self-aware of the difficulty inherent in the task of representing trauma and actively include the reader in the creation of the testimonial text.Item Narratives of erotic desire and discourses on desire: from discord to concord(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.) Alkaç, Aylin.; Baş, Işıl.In this study narratives of erotic desire written in different periods of history are examined in terms of their relationship with the dominant discourses of desire of their time. The psychoanalytical approach to desire as theorized by Lacan is chosen to constitute the framework for the analysis of both the discourses and narratives of desire. It is argued that so long as desire was subservient to the dominant idealist philosophies until the mid-nineteenth century, narratives of desire had an antagonistic relationship with these discourses. However, when erotic desire became the center of attention and the repression over it began to be alleviated, the antagonistic attitude gave way to mutual dialogue and elaboration. In the first part of the study, in order to demonstrate the antagonism between the narratives and discourses of desire, Petronius’ Satyricon, Boccacio’s Decameron and Cleland’s Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure or Fanny Hill are read with reference to the idealist philosophies of the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, respectively. In the second part, how Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Ballard’s Crash and Acker’s Great Expectations and Don Quixote respond to and elaborate on the discourses of desire as advocated by Freud, Deleuze and Guattari, and French feminist critics Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva, respectively, are discussed. It has been shown that the writers discussed in both parts of the study used erotic desire as a narrative tool to comment on the prevalent discourse of their time.|Keywords: erotic desire, Lacanian psychoanalysis, desire in literature, desire in philosophy, desire in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical criticism.