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Bernard Shaw's relations with woman in general and Ellen Tery
(Thesis - Robert College, 1953., 1953.) Çavdar, Tuncay.
A study of Astrophel and Stella
(1958.) Tamer, Ülkü, 1937-
Evidence of growth :|a study of the poetry of Theodore Roethke
(1966.) Gardner, Jacquelyn.; Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963.
Courtly love :|Boccaccio and Chaucer
(Thesis (B.S.)- Robert College, 1966., 1966.) Alissandratos, Alexandra.
The story of Tristan in the works of Malory and Tennyson
(Thesis (Assoc. Prof.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1977., 1977.) Doltaş, Dilek.
Public and patriotic themes in Elizabethan literature engendered by the sixteenth century English maritime enterprise
(Thesis (Assoc. Prof.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1978., 1978.) Sevgen, Cevza.
The victorian Bildungsroman
(Thesis (Assoc. Prof.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1982., 1982.) Parla, Jale, 1945-
Major influences on the formation of Ben Jonson's satiric strategy: |a study of the "comicall satyres"
(Thesis (Assoc. Prof.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1982., 1982.) Paker, Saliha.
Relations and contraries in Charles Tomlinson's "The way of a world"
(Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1988., 1988.) Bulutsuz, Sema.; Taylan, Cem.
The time element in "four quartes": |a Bergsonian approach
(Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1988., 1988.) Akyüz, Sevda.; Sevgen, Cevza.
Authorial intrusion as a technique of self-conscious narration in the English novel
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.) Ceylan, Fevziye Deniz (Tarba).; Sevgen, Cevza.
The use of authorial intrusion gives a self-conscious quality to the novel by underlining the distance between its fictional world and the real world from which the reader and the writer approach to that fiction. Eighteenth-century writers Sterne and Fielding have interrupted their narratives to comment on the action, characters, and the creative process of their novels. Thackeray and Trollope stand out with their use of the intrusive authorial narrator in the nineteenth century. A twentieth-century writer, John Fowles, comments extensively and systematically on the art of fiction writing as well as the role and functions of the writer by means of authorial intrusion in The French Lieutenant's Woman, which consequently appears as an example of metafiction.
The witch : heroine or anti-heroine
(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.) Gülçur, A. Lamia.; Doltaş, Dilek.
The image of the witch has always been an important one in the minds of men. The conception, which was an integral part of human bellief, later lost all its power and became the symbol of the out-group and was in the process of tIme solely assocIated with women. The witch became responsible for all the negative miracles and the wrongs that befell man. Still later the power invested in the ideation was questioned and philosophers as well as men of religion decided that none could be as powerful as God and therefore the power of the witch was only imaginary. These changes were reflected in the Iiterature. Women were first presented as forceful figures who could lead men to their destruction. Later this power was taken from them and they were depicted as peripheral figures whose sale function should be to please men. Ultimately women came to see themselves as secondary and lacking male figures whose aim should be to emulate men and prove their merit. It was later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that women started searching for a different image for themselves. This image was the witch figure which had always been the symbol of power whether positive or negative. In the nineteenth century Mary Shelley created the monster Frankenstein in her capacity of witch. Charlotte Bronte explored the image but remained ambivalent in her choice between elf and goblin. In the twentieth century Elizabeth Bowen took a step further In this directIon by seeing the connection between the conception of woman and her affiliation with the witch figure. Jean Rhys further examined men's fear of this powerful figure and Fay Weldon took it to its culmination by advocating women to assume once more the role of the powerful witch figure.
The cauldron of story : a theory of narrative
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.) Pavlik, Anthony John.; Sevgen, Cevza.
Stories are as old as the ability of human beings to communicate, and every culture both historically and geographically, appears to have its own body of narratives. Since the early Greeks, different theories of the nature of narrative have been advanced, but the general tenor of the arguments presented has usually been to view narrative as an inferior form of knowledge. This thesis aims to examine one theory of narrative that sets itself at odds with this position: Walter Fisher's "narrative paradigm". This theory seeks to re-unite mythos and logos through its notions of coherence and fidelity and the logic of good reasons, and, following an explication of the theory, it will be assessed through its application to a genre of literature, children's literature, in the form of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.
National allegories in third world novels
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.) Sezer, Feride Evren.; Irzık, Sibel,
This thesis focuses on the national allegorical aspects in Salman Rusdie’s Midnight’s Children and Nuriddin Farah’s Maps. Although allegorical elements are explored here, the thesis concerns itself with the identification problem of the third world individual, which amounts to the encounter between the West and the East through colonial and postcolonial experiences. The aim is to study how the individual reflects on him/herself with reference to his/her conception of the outside world, and how the two novels criticize and deconstruct fixed meanings imposed on the third world individual.
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.
"The brain-is wider than the sky-": nature and the sublime American self in Emerson and Whitman
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.) Sheridan, Michael Douglas.; Sevgen, Cevza.
This thesis̕ primary focus is on the relationship between nature and the development of adistinctly American selfhood, as revealed through the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson andWalt Whitman. The primary framework through which this relationship will be viewed is that of the notion of the Sublime, which over the centuries developed from being a mere rhetoricalmode into being a manner of ontological exploration and discovery. In the work of Emersonand Whitman, this manner became tied up with the then developing idea of a uniquelyAmerican self. This tying-up in turn allowed an oppositional conception concerning the relation of that self to American nature to evolve, and it is this oppositional conception, theway in which it was developed, and its ultimate consequences that this thesis explores.
Personal narratives of non-belonging
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.) Tuna, Özlem.; Irzık, Sibel,
This thesis is a comparative study of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation in the context of their particular concern and problematization of the role of memory and language in the conception of self and reality. With the help of close textual analysis, the specific textual strategies of these two examples of immigrant autobiography make it possible to lay bare the taken for granted capacity of the two cultures between which these writers -who are children of immigrant parents- experience self. My focus of study is the manner in which these writers represent their own experience through their unique translation of the two cultures that they are a part of. The act of translation is the act of non-belonging. The difficult position that their simultaneous concern for the impossibility of representing these cultures in their entirety puts them paradoxically provides them with an ever-changing, multi-perspective vision that transcends all other forms of self dictated by both cultures. The capacity of autobiography to make the past and the present coexist is instrumental in enabling the autobiographers with the experience of a self across the boundaries of two cultures.
Historiographic metafiction in postcolonial literature: Foe, Wide Sargasso Sea and Midnight's Children
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.) Turan, Ayşegül.; Ceylan, Deniz.
This M.A. thesis aims to scrutinize the use of historiographic metafiction in postcolonial literature. The imaginative (re)construction of the past provides the opportunity to tell alternate stories/histories which place the oppressed and the colonized in the center rather than the margin. The examination of the primary sources, Foe by John Maxwell Coetzee, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, raises the possibility of a “new voice” which will enable the oppressed/the colonized to represent himself and establish his authority. The issue of representation and the struggle over the narrative voice(s) form the focal points for the examination of texts. Through these media, the answers for the questions “who represents whom?”, “who can represent whom?” and “is it really possible to create a ‘new voice’?” are searched.
Negative analysis: an application of negative theology for the analysis of poetry
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.) Yurdaün, Nejat Cihan.; Fortuny, Kim.
Negative theology is a branch of mysticism that is based on the conceptualization of God as an ultimate, transcendent and ineffable being. It creates its own language called Apophasis, which acting through a series of affirmations and negations, aims to approach the ineffable God. In a similar manner, poetry is a different language in language that aims to transcend the meaning capabilities of words in order to achieve purer relation with and through language. The unique experience the poet undergoes with language is also inexpressible in essence as every poet is a distinct being, and poet’s personal affiliation with language is singular. This study utilizes the concepts of negative theology in the analysis of poetry, grounding on this functional resemblance. The outcome is a method called negative analysis that works through diligent and close readings of poems. Negative analysis borrows concepts such as Apophasis, Cataphasis, negation, unknowing and inexpressibility from negative theology, and employs them in the analysis of poetry. Poems used in this study are G.M. Hopkins’ “Peace” and Emily Dickinson’s poem numbered 405 (It might be lonelier). In Hopkins, “silence” in its absence, and in Dickinson, “silence” in its presence, set the perfect ground to enable a study of these seemingly distinct disciplines, theology and literature, under a confluent gaze, with one method. This study aims to show that poetry is a special kind of language that demands a method of analysis befitting its special nature.
Breaking the closure through language: the representation of oppression and resistance in Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale and Ursula K. Le Guin's the telling
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.) Kayışcı, Burcu.; Gülçur, A. Lamia.
This study aims to demonstrate how oppression and resistance are represented on the plane of language in the two examples of critical dystopias. The works that are chosen for detailed analysis are The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin. The study begins with a short survey of the most significant literary utopias and dystopias while simultaneously presenting the definitions and explaining the differences. In this respect, the transformation of the utopian and the dystopian genre through time is also delineated with the help of the comments of various utopian and dystopian critics. Then, the two novels are analyzed to illustrate the qualities that render them the examples of critical dystopias. The discourse of the hegemonic order is juxtaposed with the stories of the main characters which they tell in order to resist the closure of the regime. In the course of the analysis, Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of the “authoritative word” and Julia Kristeva’s “poetic logic” are employed to support the ideas presented. The manipulation of history and memory as well as the possibilities that the novels provide in terms of active political resistance is also included in accordance with the concerns of the critical dystopias.

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