Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

There is a two-way relationship between literature and psychology coming together on the same intersection at the point of essential people and human behavior. As it is possible to approach literature and to evaluate literary works with the resources of psychology, and of literary sciences, so it is also possible to c…

• BADEGÜL CAN EMİR

Although the studies on the use of literature in teaching English have been increasing abroad, in our country, particularly in public high schools, only English grammar is being taught.The students who are expected to memorise these rules cannot use English.The aim of this study is to exhibit why and how short-story c…

Reader-response theorists such as I. A. Richards (1974), L. Rosenblatt (1993), S. Fish (1970), and W. Iser (1978) argue that reading is an act which is actualized in the form of a "transaction" between the text and the reader.They observe that each reading activity is a unique experience in which the reader is involve…

In English literature, the Bildungsroman, or the novel of formation, emerged as one of the most popular literary types of fiction among Victorian realists and many of the most important works of realism are Bildungsromane. But the Bildungsroman did not emerge suddenly on literary scene in the Victorian Age. The presen…

• PETRU GOLBAN

Twenty-first century Africa is currently a continent of culturally diverse groups of people, many opposing governments, and fragmented identities due to its long history of colonization and the drastical changes following its independence. Accordingly, the study of post-colonial African literature cannot be complete w…

• ŞULE ÖZÜN

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• ONUR ERMAN

The aim of this paper is to present the basic principles of new historicism through analysing Stephen Greenblatt’s two works: Resonance and Wonder and Invisible Bullets since new historicism is highly associated with Stephen Greenblatt. Social, political, and economic elements designate the literary works of a society…

• MEHMET AKİF BALKAYA

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1959) presents Iboland (western Nigeria) in the period between 1850-1900, covering life both before and after the arrival of British colonies and Christian missionaries.In this novel, Achebe offers an almost documentary account of the daily life, customs, ceremonies a…

• ÇİĞDEM PALA MULL

The rise of the expressive theory of authorship in the literary movement that we call Romanticism radicalised the ideasthat the artist is a genius and the work of art is autonomous from the actual reality as it results from an imaginary universe whichis specific to a certain artist. Romantic emphasis on subjective exp…

Harold Pinter is one of the most outstanding and important post-war British dramatists.He has written theatre plays, radio plays, screenplays for films, sketches and poems.His plays deal with political matters.Especially his play One for the Road (1984) is openly political.Even though Pinter has stated that this play…

Dr. Abdulhakim Tuğluk’un İroni ve Roman Postmodern Türk Romanında İroninin Serüveni adlı kitabı, postmodernizme odaklanan çalışmalardan farklı bir yol izlemesi ve bir kavramın postmodernizmdeki önemine eğilmesi açısından dikkate değerdir. Genel anlamda Türkiye’de özellikle edebiyat incelemelerinde posmodernizme eğilen…

• ULAŞ BİNGÖL

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• MÜRÜVVET MİRA PINAR DOLAYKAYA