İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Tezleri

Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/132

Browse

Now showing 1 - 7 of 7

Affinity between the fiction writer and the filmmaker: Viewpoint, aesthetics, and cinematographic representation in Sherwood Anderson's and James Joyce's short stories
(2003) Taner, Neşet Erdem; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
The affinity between fiction and film can be explained by the affinity between fiction writer and the filmmaker. The fiction writer begins with a series of images which he conserves in his mind and which he has obtained from his past experiences. He sets these into motion while creating his fiction. Whenever there is a conflict, there is a story to be told. Filmmaker puts into motion the still images in his mind and he forms his film. From this perspective, it can be put forward that both the fiction writer and the filmmaker are artists who activate the mental photographs in their minds and who create their art through their selective perception. Therefore both the fiction writer and the filmmaker establish the still pictures in their minds from an aesthetic viewpoint and subjectivity to reach at their viewers or readers. American writer Sherwood Anderson and Irish writer James Joyce have reflected still pictures in their Winesbura. Ohio and Dubliners respectively by transforming those pictures into the form of motion pictures from their own Ill viewpoints and aesthetical perspectives. They have worked as if they were filmmakers in transmitting their fiction. To conclude fiction writing and film language have similar language, have similar characteristics, and both are based on the principle of putting into motion a sequence of still pictures relying on an expressionistic and subjective viewpoint and aesthetics.
History, his story, and story conceptions of reality and freedom in The French Lieutenant's woman
(2005) Ulusoy, Emel; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
John Fowles is one of the famous novelists of the twentieth century. The French Lieutenanfs Woman is considered to be his best work in which he demonstrates the interacting natures of fiction and life, culture and ideology, and man and freedom. He sees the novel as an evolving genre, and draws a parallel between the evolution of fiction and the evolution of man. Fowles rejects the traditional understanding of novel writing. He gives a new shape to the genre by asserting a metafictional style. He compares and contrasts his style with those of the Victorian novelists. To do this, he assumes a pseudo-Victorian tone which enables him to act both in and out of the Victorian tradition. While constructing the work, he makes use of documentary, history, sociology, and psychology. The novel becomes an amalgam, and with this amalgam, Fowles is able to draw a three-dimensional picture of his society in which man is destined to evolve horizontally. Hence, different from the nineteenth century novelists, Fowles IV depicts an alternative, horizontal evolution model contrary to the vertical one of the Victorians. The female character Fowles creates is the prototype of the horizontally evolving "modem" woman. However, Fowles does not limit modernity with twentieth century only. The gist of modernism (or postmodernism) for him lies in the idea of evolution itself, and it is timeless. Through the relation between Charles and Sarah, he shows that change is inevitable, and at the same time he expects his readers to evolve through the reading process of the novel. Finally, Fowles comes to reveal that there is a parallelism between life and fiction because man has always created fictitious pasts and presents, and an image of a fictitious future.
Rise and fall on national icons, symbols and indexes: D. H. Lawrence's denial of national idealism
(2002) Öztürk, Devrim; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
English author D. H. Lawrence did not remain ignorant of the agony and sufferings in his society and of the entire continental Europe stemming from the First World War, by transmitting as a message of how vain as deceptions British national and spiritual values were. Lawrence was affected by the idealistic movements of his age, but rejecting all, he finally developed his own synthesis. Even in his short stories regarded as romantic and erotic, Lawrence developed a method of indirection that criticized bitterly and ironically the British national pride and the concept of masculinity. Through the use of the elements of semiotics such as "icon, symbol and index", Lawrence indirectly tells in his short stories the falsity and destructiveness of the spirit of nationalism, and how "Britannia", the female icon, being Britain's national symbol, amplifies and makes the concept of the superior British male more domineering. Thus, the author invites his reader to resist and reject with common sense and understanding the plot of nationalism established against him, without getting impressed by fake nationalistic sentiments. However, since the author reflected indirectly his ideas juxtaposed against nationalism and national faith, there has been a different image of Lawrence in western literature. In his war-related short stories, Lawrence used icons (one to one similarity), indexes (connections) and symbols (signification through custom) connoting power struggles and relationships that contribute to his war theme as building stones in his short stories. Lawrence, who articulated the facts of his time without ignoring the First World War, reached a synthesis that there was the sentiment of British IV nationalism as well as a universal pride in masculinity behind the bloody war that demolished Europe. Lawrence guides his contemporaries to be realistic by demolishing such sentiments and fake national pride in his short stories, discussed in this study.
The age of darkness: Gothic discourse and its reflections of discontent in Matthew Lewis's The Monk
(2005) İnal, Bahar; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
Matthew Lewis is a highly imaginative and creative writer in his depictions of extraordinary, rebellious, and demonic characters, who remain outside the mainstream of the eighteenth century novel. In a style of authentic narrative, he makes a chain of terror and violence, intended to penetrate deeply into the moral and social atmosphere of the age. The Monk, one of the masterpieces of English Gothic literature, exerts a considerable influence over the writings of the novelists like Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Sir Walter Scott, and so on. The elements of this influence - the criminal monk, terror and violence, incest and brutal sexuality, the Wandering Jew and the Bleeding Nun - have been used by various Gothic writers including Ann Radcliffe and Charles Robert Maturin. Matthew Lewis indicts the codes and norms of The Age of Reason in The Monk. He subverts the world-view of Newton and Descartes, for whom each element in nature has a fixed place and all models of social and moral action are derived from the method of reason. To reveal the failure of the social system of the Enlightenment, Lewis creates a pseudo- scientific atmosphere in which black magic, exorcism, and enchantment (they are also representative of a pseudo-medieval atmosphere) take the place of rationalism and secularism of the dominant culture. Asserting that man is irredeemably lost in the nightmarish world of mathematical rules and formulas, the spiritual health and integrity of the individual can only be achieved through searching for a release from the darkness of Enlightenment sociability and rationality.
The mill on the floss: An expression of George Eliot's developed vision on fe/male identity
(2005) Vural Başkan, Mine; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
George Eliot, as a unique author, is a keen observer of her society in terms of understanding the evolution of female consciousness. She questions the effects of the capitalist, industrial, patriarchal world of men in shaping women's identity. She shows that women's status and rights are assigned within a patriarchal set up. For Eliot, women are the direct products of the basic suppositions of male oriented and dominant social values. Thus, Eliot creates a new woman who suffers and tries to break the narrowness of her traditional role to achieve moral and economic independence. To reveal the new woman concept, she compares two dissimilar women types in The Mill on the Floss, and by this way she paves the way for the awakening of women. According to Eliot, becoming a complete human being is more important than assuming the gender roles. To do this, masculine and feminine sides of a person are to be balanced. What makes Eliot outstanding is her suggestion of this unification. At this point, by stressing the importance of achieving unity, Eliot challenges the IV sexist viewpoint of her age. She is aware that equalizing the sexes is an important task and only manageable through self-sacrifice. In the novel, Maggie is able to complete her unification as a result of the hardships she encounters. However, the social milieu is not ripe enough to assert her identity, and Eliot draws a tragic picture at the end only to defer her developed vision to the future.
The Status and the psychology of women in Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, a room of one's own
(2003) Akın, Pelin; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
As a feminist writer of the 20 century, Virginia Woolf takes women as the main topic in her novels, Mrs Dalloway and Orlando and her essay, A Room of One's Own. However, she defends and supports women as an individual who should have the equal opportunities and rights with men in society. In her novels, it is indicated that women carry on womanly responsibilities and these become a heavy load on their shoulders. In her essay, she argues that women are not given a chance to develop themselves through communication with society and by earning a living. Since they are prevented from society, they become passive and silent. Consequently, women begin to feel themselves empty and lost. Psychologically, they are suppressed under this feeling. At home, they play the role of perfect wives and perfect mothers feeling themselves as the unimportant figures of society. Their feelings, ideas, and thoughts are never taken into consideration. This leads to a serious identity problem and damages their psychology. In society, they are called with the name of their husbands, which puts forward that they have no public role. Their only duty is limited within house. This is reflected as a lack of communication in their lives. Besides these, they are not given right to be educated. Due to the lack of education, they cannot earn a living. IV Virginia Woolf shows the identity problems which is the result of the status in society, and the psychological prblems of women in her works, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and A Room of One 's Own.
The transformation in the pattern of relationships in iris murdoch's novels the Philosopher's Pupil and Nuns and Soldiers
(2005) Pesek, Ebru; 09.02. Yabancı Diller Bölümü; 09. Rektörlük; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
Iris Murdoch, a writer and philosopher of the 20th century, is deeply concerned with such issues as moral philosophy and religion, which also become central concerns in her literary life. The meanings of ethics and morality in society are issues that she reflects in her novels. In the novels, The Philosopher's Pupil and Nuns and Soldiers studied in this thesis, she does this by creating complex and controversial patterns of relationships and making her characters go through a trial. The characters are supposed to transform into selfless individuals, who believe in the principle of doing good deeds after being successful in these trials. The metamorphosis of the characters from mainly selfish and self-centred personalities into moral individuals with a higher goal is the author's aim. In both novels, The Philosopher 's Pupil and Nuns and Soldiers, this aim is only partially fulfilled by the characters; particularly the main characters use their distinguished position in society for their IV selfish concerns. Even the other characters are influenced by them yet not many of them start the process of "unselfingf themselves. Murdoch's characters, in these two novels, do not achieve the goal of transforming into better human beings, thus she is realistic in that she gives the reader at least an example using a few characters of how to become independent, moral and ethical individuals.

Browse

Browsing İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Tezleri by Access Right "info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess"