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    Keats’ “Lamia:” the serpentine dialectic
    (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.) Pekgöz, Kürşat K.; Sevgen, Cevza.; Bulamur, Ayşe Naz.
    This thesis is an attempt to disentangle the serpentine dialectic of Keats’ “Lamia.” I am positing three transformations in the development of the mixoparthenos figure: monstrous mother, a cannibalistic and vampiric phantom, and a tragic character. All three layers of myth are fully present in Keats’ poem, but Lamia is ultimately more tragic than monstrous. I also posit that Keats’ version of the story is more sympathetic to the she-serpent at least partly because Keats, unlike Plato, values imagination over reason.
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    The politics of nostalgia in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Bacigalupi’s the Windup Girl
    (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.) Kabak, Murat.; Bulamur, Ayşe Naz.
    This study explores the representation of nostalgia in two dystopian novels, the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) and the American writer Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). While there are major works tracing the themes of longing for home and belonging in contemporary fiction, there is no current study adequately addressing the connection between dystopian novel and nostalgia. Therefore, this study fills a gap in the existing scholarship by virtue of its focus on the dystopian novel. Building on the contemporary interdisciplinary approaches on nostalgia and dystopian tradition, this M.A. thesis investigates the political implications of yearning for the past. Through examining our ways of relating to the past, Oryx and Crake and The Windup Girl question two arguments that are central to utopian fiction: a return to nature argument and scientific and technological utopianism. Both novels not only problematize these contradictory possibilities, but they also propose and contest a third alternative: the possibility of a future that brings together human and non-human. I argue that Atwood and Bacigalupi’s novels are a meditation on utopian thought and a nuanced exploration of the experience of nostalgia.