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Passion for the Real Through Snuff Film in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
(University of Timişoara, 2011)Alain Badiou defines the twentieth century in terms of "the passion for the real". The aim of this paper is to discuss how the term is materialized through the use of snuff film in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, and ... -
“This Bloomin’ Country’s A Fraud”: Musical Commodification and Westward Expansion in Sharon Pollock’s Walsh
(Pamukkale Üniversitesi, 2020-04)Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock’s Walsh (1973) revisits the aftermath of the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) when Sitting Bull led the Sioux to cross the Canadian border for seeking refuge, befriended Major John Walsh ... -
Fantastik Edebiyatta Arayış [Quest in Fantasy Fiction]
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The Reception of the Weird Sisters in Welles's Macbeth and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
(IAFOR, 2016)This paper discusses the reception of the Weird Sisters of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606) in Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948) and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957) as supernatural beings with complete control over ... -
Kuralları Değiştirmek ve Gücü Paylaşmak: Vampir Avcısı Buffy’de Avcı Mitinin Yeniden Tanımlanışı [Changing the Rules and Sharing the Power: Redefining the Slayer Myth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer]
(İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2012)Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a seven-season TV series broadcasted between 1997-2003 and produced by Joss Whedon as a sequel to the film by the same title produced in 1992. It tells the adventures of Buffy, a high school ... -
The Penelopiad: Dislodging the Myth of Penelope as the Archetype of Faithful and Patient Wife
(Celal Bayar University Publications, 2010)Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, a retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey, is narrated by Penelope and the twelve maids. It aims at dislodging the traditional myth, which presents Penelope as the archetype of faithful and patient ... -
The Artistic and Religious Nature of Food in "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary"
(Istanbul Kültür University Publications, 2008)A. S. Byatt’s short story “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary,” based on Diego Velàzquez’s painting Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, revolves around the relation of a young painter and a young ... -
Orlando: Yüzyıllar Boyu Sanatçının Arayışı [Orlando: The Quest of the Artist Through the Ages]
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Yüzüklerin Efendisi: Kehanetler ve Yarı Gerçeklik [The Lord of the Rings: Prophecies and Half-Truths]
(İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2006)Tolkien asserts that fantasy does not ignore scientific reality but enables us to understand the empirical reality better. The prophecies in The Lord of the Rings, like fantasy, can only be understood through sharp and ... -
The Battle of "Good" and Evil in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club"
(MAS, 2003)In the story “The Suicide Club” Robert Louis Stevenson is dealing with the problem of masculinity in a decadent society in which males have completely lost the definition of traditional role of masculinity. That Stevenson ... -
Spinning a Thread of One's Own from Homer to Atwood
(Brill, 2018)This chapter discusses how Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad as a continuation of Homer's The Odyssey uses gender as a means to subvert the male-forged myths of masculinity and femininity and offers Helen, Penelope, and the ... -
Brave New Words: Theatre as Magic in "The Shakespeare Code"
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2014-05-16)BBC's cult classic TV series Doctor Who's season 3 episode 2 titled "The Shakespeare Code" draws a canonical link from William Shakespeare's plays to fantasy fiction and science fiction to the extent of making the bard ... -
Mythology moe-ified: classical witches, warriors, and monsters in Japanese manga
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Posthuman Female Identities and Cyborg Alices in Orphan Black
(Hacattepe Üniversitesi, 2019)This article scrutinizes the reception of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) in the television series Orphan Black (2013-2017) through the lenses of posthuman and ... -
The Helmholtz, the Doctor, the Minotaur, and the Labyrinth
(The Mythopoeic Society, 2016)Victor Pelevin's The Helmet of Horror and Toby Whithouse's Doctor Who episode "The God Complex" are both retellings of the classical myth of the Minotaur and the labyrinth of Crete. Both retellings, each serving as a ... -
Doris Lessing’in "To Room Nineteen" ("19 Numaralı Oda’ya") Öyküsünde Öznel Bireyselliğin Ölümü
(İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2012-03-20)In Doris Lessing’s short story “To Room Nineteen,” published in her collection of tales titled A Man and Two Women (1963), when Susan Rawlings, a middle-aged woman, married with four children, starts questioning her marriage ...
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