İngiliz Edebiyatı

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    The creation of the monstrous other through metamorphosis
    (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.) Batu, Pelin, 1978-; Sevgen, Cevza.
    Every age and culture has created its own Others, some in the form of monsters who mirror not only our archetypal fears but our contemporary anxieties. Metamorphosis always involves otherizing and certain monsters are engendered through metamorphosis. It is these that I have chosen to work on in the light of mythography and contemporary literary theory. In this dissertation I analyze four narratives which focus on monstrous “others” and explore the relationship between these “others” and the societies that breed them. Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometeus and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis are read as the rewriting of mythic stories in which metamorphosis is brought about by the father. Stoker’s Dracula and Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray on the other hand are two monstrous Others with protean genders echoing ancient myths of metamorphosing vampires and evil personified.|Keywords : metamorphosis, the Other, mythology, scapegoats, fathers and sons, evil, beauty.
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    Wallace Stevens & Melih Cevdet Anday: the poetics of supreme fiction
    (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.) Batu, Pelin, 1978-; Sevgen, Cevza.
    The distance between the physical and metaphysical, the real and unreal cannot be measured, but it is precisely a preoccupation with this distance that creates the poems and fictions of Stevens and Anday. The focus of my thesis is the journey the poets take into the grey zones of life and poetry. The relationship of the poet to the world around him, to death, change and pleasure are subject matters that both poets are preoccupied with, thereby raising the status of the poet to the "artificer of life." In their works, the multifaceted layers of reality and history are brought into question only to be debunked and replaced. My thesis is an attempt to explore this tendency towards destruction and recreation, the breaking down of boundaries to be replaced by new ones which in their turn will be broken down.