Narrative Theory and Analysis

The objective of this study is to analyse the predominating narrative unreliability in Kazuo Ishiguro‟s The Remains of the Day (1989) within the framework of rhetorical narratology with a specific focus upon the notion of subjectivity. The homodiegetic narrator, the ageing butler Stevens, is far from fitting unproblem…

• ELİF TOPRAK SAKIZ

Our physical experience of architecture is apparently finite -bound by such constraints as time, place, and mobility.But literature offers us the opportunity to inhabit much different architecture in many different times and through this serves to strengthen our understanding of the chief poet ic resonance of architec…

Hollandalı tarihçi Jacques Presser, 1958’de bir yazıyla ilk kez “egodocument” kavramını dolaşıma sokmuştur. Kasıt, günlük, hatırat, otobiyografi türünden kişilerin bizzat kendi kalemlerinden çıkma ve kendilerine dair metinlerdir. Dünyanın bir kısmında kavram olduğu gibi kabullenilmiş, diğer bir kısmında aynı malzeme b…

• SELİM KARAHASANOĞLU

Metalepsis, antik dönemdeki hukukî söylemden kaynaklanan ve Gérard Genette tarafından anlatı düzeyleri arasındaki geçişleri betimlemek için anlatı teorisine transfer edilen bir terimdir. Genette tarafından “ekstradiegetik anlatıcının ya da kurgusal okuyucu/dinleyicinin (“anlatılan”ın) diegetik dünyaya (ya da diegetik…

• BAHAR DERVİŞCEMALOĞLU

The article aims to expose some reflections on the theories of Roland Barthes, referred to the concept of Intertextuality. Although the French critic has never proposed a specific intertextual theory, some of his writings focus on this concept by giving some ideas and interpretations that will be useful for the develo…

• CRISTIANO BEDIN

In diesem Artikel wird erstens der Begriff “Imagologie” definiert und der Forschungsgegenstand der Imagologie festgestellt, dann wird die Komparatistik beschrieben und die Beziehung zwischen der vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (Komparatistik) und Imagologie erforscht, indem die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Imag…

Despite their significance in social reality and in fiction, ressentiment and especially spite are surprisingly under‐researched topics. As the repressed other of the contemporary post‐political society, they often combine political impotence and enjoyment in passivity, two experiences that are closely related to the…

This essay approaches autobiography studies through a philosophical perspective and explores Derrida's notion of "otobiography" to elaborate on the twin problem of identity and writing. After examining the autobiographical thread in Derrida's work and raising questions pertaining to genre and autonomy, the essay focus…

• MELİZ ERGİN BİLGİN

This article examines the Brothers Grimm’s “Little Red Riding Hood” in comparison with its most recent adaptation in The Grimm Variations (2024) on Netflix, with a particular focus on the concept of voice. Using narratology, feminist narratology, and intertextuality, the study investigates how the notion of voice oper…

• OĞUZHAN AYRIM

The desire to understand and interpret the underlying mechanisms involved in the creation and reception of literary texts, and the influence of these mechanisms on human cognition goes back at least to Aristotle’s Poetics. However, the last century has witnessed a vast variety of approaches to the understanding of lit…

• ROGER ALAN TUNÇ

A phenomenological method of comics analysis can be useful when we need to uncover the structural features of the comics experience itself. One fruitful application would be in the study of irregular intra-panel rhythms, where the temporalized divisions are not visibly indicated but rather are only experienced. By mea…

• CORRY MICHAEL SHORES

Stranger Things (2016-), postmodern anlatılarda çokça yer alan metinlerarasılık ve nostalji kavramlarından yola çıkılarak analiz edilmektedir.Dizide yer alan metinlerarasılığın birtakım metinlerin dünyasına erişirken nostaljiyi aracı kılması, çalışmada iki kavram üzerinde durulmasına yol açmıştır.Stranger Things konus…

• YASEMİN ÖZKENT