Imagining a queer protagonist, a case deemed unusual for the genre of detective fiction, Patricia... more Imagining a queer protagonist, a case deemed unusual for the genre of detective fiction, Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, also known as “A Novel of Suspense” was written in 1955 when queerness and homosexuality were seen as dangerous subject matters of discussion in public. Within her novel, she imagines a protagonist named Tom Ripley who is intelligent, talented, and to a certain extent, likeable, but at the same time a murderer of two characters (i.e. Dickie and Freddy) guilty of various crimes; thus, she designs a place where the social order and justice are not lived up to. As Rebecca L. Prigot notes “morals are not safe from Highsmith’s magnifying glass”. In this context, I argue that the representation of Tom as a likable criminal lacking the feeling of guilt and the lack of appropriate punishment element at the end of the novel probe raises, in many ways, both ethical and formal issues. How ethical is to represent a murderer of two victims as a sympathetic character? Must the punishment of the crime be always meted out to the murderer by always the detective or policemen within the genre of the detective/crime fiction? Could we regard it as a moral act of the author to give a paranoid psyche to Tom, the murderer, instead of bringing him to criminal justice? To offer a better understanding of these ethical questions about the era, my thesis paper will also focus on how the social and historical atmosphere of the United States in the 1950s. Finally, it will discuss the genre matter: Can The Talented Mr. Ripley be regarded within the genre of detective fiction despite the lack of criminal justice at the end of the novel? How are the roles of detective, victim, and criminal distributed to the characters? What are the functions of Italian police force and the American detective in the novel?
Envisaging a revolutionary world, an exact opposite of the patriarchal order, Charlotte Perkins G... more Envisaging a revolutionary world, an exact opposite of the patriarchal order, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland aka “A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel” is written at the turn of the twentieth century when women could not vote, divorce and work after marriage. Within her novel, she imagines the world in which we see women’s full participation in society as intelligent, resourceful and brave individuals; where women are free to live up to their potential as intellectuals and as people; and she designs an ideal, ever improving social order that is free of war, conflict, and domination. But when we take a closer look at how the novel accomplishes and, in a way, offers the ideal, progressive alternative to the unequal conditions of women in reality, we see an elephant in the room full of glasses: the practices of Eugenics which have a very crucial role in giving a flawless shape to Herland. As Asha Nadkarni says, Gilman utilizes a “eugenic mechanism” for the sake of creating a perfect society. In this context, I argue that representation of Eugenics as a recipe for a perfect society in the novel raises, in many ways, both ethical and formal issues, though. How ethical is to eliminate a member that is not the fittest (namely the disabled and weak) from the society? Is it a moral act to establish a nation with one, single, pure race? What is the morality behind the fact that only a few number of eligible women are allowed to be a mother? Also, nature versus nurture comes to the fore as another problematic issue within a moral context of the novel. To offer a better understanding of these ethical questions about the era my thesis paper will also focus on how the social and historical atmosphere at the turn of the twentieth century was. Finally, it will discuss the genre matter: Can Herland be regarded as a “feminist eu/utopia” despite the practices of Eugenics? Are these supposedly what feminists have dreamed of and /or feared for?
This essay focuses on the unnamed narrator’s quest for self in the novel. And it tries to advocat... more This essay focuses on the unnamed narrator’s quest for self in the novel. And it tries to advocate that the novel unfolds its own gist, only when the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Jacques Lacan are applied to the unnamed narrator’s story because his search for an identity is, indeed, a matter of purely psychological quest.
This paper is a comment on the colonial discourse of Prospero and on his manner of treatment of a... more This paper is a comment on the colonial discourse of Prospero and on his manner of treatment of all the characters in ''The Tempest'' by William Shakespeare. And it focuses on his expectation from young people in the play, who are Miranda, Caliban, Ariel and Ferdinand, and from Italians who are Alonso, Gonzalo, Sebastian and Antonio and the drunkards, regarding different reactions of all these characters. It, also, tries to make a comparison between Aimé Césaire's play, "A Tempest" and Shakespeare's play.
"Moby Dick" has such a hermetic atmosphere that Herman Melville expresses what he feels about the... more "Moby Dick" has such a hermetic atmosphere that Herman Melville expresses what he feels about the novel in his letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne: “I have written a wicked book and feel spotless as the lamb.” It seems ironic that Moby Dick makes Melville feel complex feelings: He feels wicked for he has written it, but he at the same time feels pure innocence like that of the lamb. In the similar manner, "Moby Dick" includes different complicated signs within itself as Moby Dick, or the whale and doubloon would testify. And this paper tries to display its ambiguity through examining this two subject matters that the novel interestingly deals with.
Neden ötekiler, düşmanlar, canavarlar farklı anlatımlarla ya da farklı boyutlarla tekrar tekrar g... more Neden ötekiler, düşmanlar, canavarlar farklı anlatımlarla ya da farklı boyutlarla tekrar tekrar geri geliyor ya da yeniden oluşturuluyor? Bu komposizyon bu soruyu çeşitli örneklerle cevaplandırmayı amaçlıyor.
Consumerism is another theme that comes to the fore in "The Road" written by Cormac McCarthy as t... more Consumerism is another theme that comes to the fore in "The Road" written by Cormac McCarthy as the scenes of drinking a can of Coca-Cola, pushing the shopping cart, underground bunker full of goods and the search for gasoline would testify. Critics are divided over the discussion whether McCarthy is offering an acute criticism of the consumer culture or lamenting over the loss of blissful, serene days of a consumerist society. And this essay is trying to advocate that these scenes in the novel reveal the lamentation over the loss of blissful, serene days of a consumerist society.
This essay is attempting to show the link between "Interpellation" and "Languge" in terms of L. A... more This essay is attempting to show the link between "Interpellation" and "Languge" in terms of L. Althusser and Lacan's theory.
Neden ötekiler, düşmanlar, canavarlar farklı anlatımlarla ya da farklı isimlerle yeniden oluşturu... more Neden ötekiler, düşmanlar, canavarlar farklı anlatımlarla ya da farklı isimlerle yeniden oluşturuluyor? İnsanlık neden hep bir başkasını ‘öteki’ olarak görme gereği duymuştur? İşte tüm bu soruları Richard Kearney, Yabancılar, Tanrılar ve Canavarlar – Ötekiliği Yorumlamak adlı kitabında ele alıyor. http://ajansuniversite.istanbul.edu.tr/otekiler-insanoglunun-kendini-anlamlandirma-surecinin-disa-vurumudur/
Imagining a queer protagonist, a case deemed unusual for the genre of detective fiction, Patricia... more Imagining a queer protagonist, a case deemed unusual for the genre of detective fiction, Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, also known as “A Novel of Suspense” was written in 1955 when queerness and homosexuality were seen as dangerous subject matters of discussion in public. Within her novel, she imagines a protagonist named Tom Ripley who is intelligent, talented, and to a certain extent, likeable, but at the same time a murderer of two characters (i.e. Dickie and Freddy) guilty of various crimes; thus, she designs a place where the social order and justice are not lived up to. As Rebecca L. Prigot notes “morals are not safe from Highsmith’s magnifying glass”. In this context, I argue that the representation of Tom as a likable criminal lacking the feeling of guilt and the lack of appropriate punishment element at the end of the novel probe raises, in many ways, both ethical and formal issues. How ethical is to represent a murderer of two victims as a sympathetic character? Must the punishment of the crime be always meted out to the murderer by always the detective or policemen within the genre of the detective/crime fiction? Could we regard it as a moral act of the author to give a paranoid psyche to Tom, the murderer, instead of bringing him to criminal justice? To offer a better understanding of these ethical questions about the era, my thesis paper will also focus on how the social and historical atmosphere of the United States in the 1950s. Finally, it will discuss the genre matter: Can The Talented Mr. Ripley be regarded within the genre of detective fiction despite the lack of criminal justice at the end of the novel? How are the roles of detective, victim, and criminal distributed to the characters? What are the functions of Italian police force and the American detective in the novel?
Envisaging a revolutionary world, an exact opposite of the patriarchal order, Charlotte Perkins G... more Envisaging a revolutionary world, an exact opposite of the patriarchal order, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland aka “A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel” is written at the turn of the twentieth century when women could not vote, divorce and work after marriage. Within her novel, she imagines the world in which we see women’s full participation in society as intelligent, resourceful and brave individuals; where women are free to live up to their potential as intellectuals and as people; and she designs an ideal, ever improving social order that is free of war, conflict, and domination. But when we take a closer look at how the novel accomplishes and, in a way, offers the ideal, progressive alternative to the unequal conditions of women in reality, we see an elephant in the room full of glasses: the practices of Eugenics which have a very crucial role in giving a flawless shape to Herland. As Asha Nadkarni says, Gilman utilizes a “eugenic mechanism” for the sake of creating a perfect society. In this context, I argue that representation of Eugenics as a recipe for a perfect society in the novel raises, in many ways, both ethical and formal issues, though. How ethical is to eliminate a member that is not the fittest (namely the disabled and weak) from the society? Is it a moral act to establish a nation with one, single, pure race? What is the morality behind the fact that only a few number of eligible women are allowed to be a mother? Also, nature versus nurture comes to the fore as another problematic issue within a moral context of the novel. To offer a better understanding of these ethical questions about the era my thesis paper will also focus on how the social and historical atmosphere at the turn of the twentieth century was. Finally, it will discuss the genre matter: Can Herland be regarded as a “feminist eu/utopia” despite the practices of Eugenics? Are these supposedly what feminists have dreamed of and /or feared for?
This essay focuses on the unnamed narrator’s quest for self in the novel. And it tries to advocat... more This essay focuses on the unnamed narrator’s quest for self in the novel. And it tries to advocate that the novel unfolds its own gist, only when the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Jacques Lacan are applied to the unnamed narrator’s story because his search for an identity is, indeed, a matter of purely psychological quest.
This paper is a comment on the colonial discourse of Prospero and on his manner of treatment of a... more This paper is a comment on the colonial discourse of Prospero and on his manner of treatment of all the characters in ''The Tempest'' by William Shakespeare. And it focuses on his expectation from young people in the play, who are Miranda, Caliban, Ariel and Ferdinand, and from Italians who are Alonso, Gonzalo, Sebastian and Antonio and the drunkards, regarding different reactions of all these characters. It, also, tries to make a comparison between Aimé Césaire's play, "A Tempest" and Shakespeare's play.
"Moby Dick" has such a hermetic atmosphere that Herman Melville expresses what he feels about the... more "Moby Dick" has such a hermetic atmosphere that Herman Melville expresses what he feels about the novel in his letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne: “I have written a wicked book and feel spotless as the lamb.” It seems ironic that Moby Dick makes Melville feel complex feelings: He feels wicked for he has written it, but he at the same time feels pure innocence like that of the lamb. In the similar manner, "Moby Dick" includes different complicated signs within itself as Moby Dick, or the whale and doubloon would testify. And this paper tries to display its ambiguity through examining this two subject matters that the novel interestingly deals with.
Neden ötekiler, düşmanlar, canavarlar farklı anlatımlarla ya da farklı boyutlarla tekrar tekrar g... more Neden ötekiler, düşmanlar, canavarlar farklı anlatımlarla ya da farklı boyutlarla tekrar tekrar geri geliyor ya da yeniden oluşturuluyor? Bu komposizyon bu soruyu çeşitli örneklerle cevaplandırmayı amaçlıyor.
Consumerism is another theme that comes to the fore in "The Road" written by Cormac McCarthy as t... more Consumerism is another theme that comes to the fore in "The Road" written by Cormac McCarthy as the scenes of drinking a can of Coca-Cola, pushing the shopping cart, underground bunker full of goods and the search for gasoline would testify. Critics are divided over the discussion whether McCarthy is offering an acute criticism of the consumer culture or lamenting over the loss of blissful, serene days of a consumerist society. And this essay is trying to advocate that these scenes in the novel reveal the lamentation over the loss of blissful, serene days of a consumerist society.
This essay is attempting to show the link between "Interpellation" and "Languge" in terms of L. A... more This essay is attempting to show the link between "Interpellation" and "Languge" in terms of L. Althusser and Lacan's theory.
Neden ötekiler, düşmanlar, canavarlar farklı anlatımlarla ya da farklı isimlerle yeniden oluşturu... more Neden ötekiler, düşmanlar, canavarlar farklı anlatımlarla ya da farklı isimlerle yeniden oluşturuluyor? İnsanlık neden hep bir başkasını ‘öteki’ olarak görme gereği duymuştur? İşte tüm bu soruları Richard Kearney, Yabancılar, Tanrılar ve Canavarlar – Ötekiliği Yorumlamak adlı kitabında ele alıyor. http://ajansuniversite.istanbul.edu.tr/otekiler-insanoglunun-kendini-anlamlandirma-surecinin-disa-vurumudur/
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different reactions of all these characters. It, also, tries to make a comparison between Aimé Césaire's play, "A Tempest" and Shakespeare's play.
http://ajansuniversite.istanbul.edu.tr/otekiler-insanoglunun-kendini-anlamlandirma-surecinin-disa-vurumudur/
different reactions of all these characters. It, also, tries to make a comparison between Aimé Césaire's play, "A Tempest" and Shakespeare's play.
http://ajansuniversite.istanbul.edu.tr/otekiler-insanoglunun-kendini-anlamlandirma-surecinin-disa-vurumudur/