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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...