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    Citation Count: YILMAZ KURT, Z.,(2008). Salvation Through Beauty: Iris Murdoch’s New Religion in a Godless Universe. Çankaya Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Journal of Arts and Sciences, Sayı: 9, pp.39-48
    Salvation through beauty: Iris Murdoch’s new religion in a godless universe
    (Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2008-05) Yılmaz Kurt, Zeynep; 103796; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü
    Novelist Iris Murdoch is also a modern philosopher, who is aware of the moral dilemma of the scientific age. For her, morality is the only means of salvation in this age, as she considers morals not related with religion but with metaphysics. Thus, any moral attempt to achieve good is a transcendental experience. This paper explores Murdoch’s moral philosophy with reference to her artist character Tim Reede in Nuns and Soldiers.
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    Citation Count: YILMAZ KURT, Z., (2007). “Social Reality Versus Ontological Reality: The Differing Sense of Reality in The Great Gatsby and Heart of Darkness. Çankaya Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Journal of Arts and Sciences, Sayı: 8, pp.67-83
    “Social reality versus ontological reality: the differing sense of reality in the great gatsby and heart of darkness
    (Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2007-12) Yılmaz Kurt, Zeynep; 103796; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü
    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is discussed widely for being influenced by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This article refers to the relevance of Conradian influences and the parallels between these two novels in terms of narration techniques, plot and characterization. Despite these parallels, however, it is also argued that the two novels reflect reality on different dimensions. It concludes by stating that Fitzgerald shares the same concern with Conrad in narration technique, in characterization and in handling the idea of corruption and civilisation, but their approach to the subject of corruption and civilisation differs. Fitzgerald considers corruption as a social vice, whereas , in Conrad it is associated with human nature altogether. These differing ideas of corruption, as an ontological fact in Conrad and as a social vice in Fitzgerald, prove also that their concept of reality is different