Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research

As Melena Ryzik joked in a report from a Golden Globes after-party, “Ain’t no party like a Bill Murray party, because a Bill Murray party don’t stop.” 1 Although it was meant to encapsulate the antics of a single evening, Ryzik’s observation resonates beyond one star-studded gala into the arc of Murray’s entire career…

As a socialist feminist dramatist of the 20th century, Caryl Churchill draws attention to women’s oppression through Vinegar Tom in which she experiments Brechtian theatrical techniques. She shifts in time, from the past to the present, to illuminate the historical context of women’s oppression. She combines successfu…

• NİLAY ERDEM AYYILDIZ

The play Miss Julie is about the portrayal of the new image of feminist woman in the Victorian period. The playwright August Strindberg is mainly considered to be a misogynist as evidenced in his preface to Miss Julie, in which he defines miss Julie as man-hating and half woman with a “degenerate brain”. This represen…

• ZEYNEP ŞENTÜRK

The play Miss Julie is about the portrayal of the new image of feminist woman in the Victorian period. The playwright August Strindberg is mainly considered to be a misogynist as evidenced in his preface to Miss Julie, in which he defines miss Julie as man-hating and half woman with a “degenerate brain”. This represen…

• SELÇUK ŞENTÜRK

Fiziksel rahatsızlıklar, bedensel kusurlar gibi bedene dair sorunlar dünya edebiyatında sıklıkla karşımıza çıkan konulardır. Edebiyatın bu tip sorunlar yaşayan kurgusal karakterler üzerinden duygudaşlık geliştiren katartik bir gücü olduğu yadsınamaz. Özellikle psikolojik tahliller açısından zengin bir edebî metin, hem…

This chapter looks at the major thinkers about the philosophy of the novel over time. Giambattista Vico is identified as the first major figure, though he did not write about the novel, because his writing about epic poetry and the loss of the poetic sets up the themes of philosophy of the novel. Friedrich Schlegel is…

The Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) explores gender relations which were fiercely debated in the late nineteenth century. The play deals mainly with the oppression of a bourgeois woman named Nora, who forges her father’s signature to save her husband’s life. Regarded as a member of the inferior s…

• ŞEBNEM DÜZGÜN

Ecofeminist philosophy has developed sophisticated critiques of the structures in western patriarchal culture that contribute to the continuing domination and oppression, not only of women but of nature as well. Drawing on ecofeminism’s critique of dualist structures as its principle guiding paradigm, this paper aims…

• IŞIL ŞAHİN GÜLTER

In this article, the concept of ‘anomie’ in David Mamet’s (1947-) “American Buffalo” (1976) and “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1984) is analysed in the context of the economic and socio-cultural evolution of America and ‘The American Dream of Success’. It is shown how virtues and values with the mentality of the system and wi…

• FATİME GÜL KOÇSOY

This study aims to examine Samuel Beckett’s Endgame as an absurdist play considering certain aspects and characteristics of this kind of drama such as silence, pause, repetitions, no story or plot, no recognizable or definable decor, unconventional dialogue and interest in global and universal problems rather than con…

Departing from Jacques Lacan’s influence on literary and pedagogical studies, this article explores how his conceptualization of “style” informs literature and pedagogy in addition to psychoanalysis. The article suggests that Lacan’s theorization of the human subject as the “letter” of psychoanalysis shows the intermi…

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