Thomas Hardy Literature Studies

In Narrating from the Margins, Nagihan Haliloğlu casts a discerning look at Jean Rhys's protagonists and the ways in which they engage in self-narration. The book offers a close reading of Rhys's novels, with particular attention to the links between identity construction and self-narration, in a modernist and postcol…

Pat Barker’s latest novel The Silence of the Girls (2018) retells the events taking place in The Iliad from the perspective of Briseis, Achilles’ bed-slave. The aim of this paper is to analyse The Silence of the Girls in the light of écriture feminine, a term coined by Hélène Cixous in her essay, “The Laugh of Medusa”…

• MERVE ALTIN

Yalın Tutku’da, (Passion Simple) öteki romanlarında olduğu gibi Ernaux’nun yaşamına yön veren kişisel olaylar öykülenir. Biçemsel açıdan yeniötesi küçürek (fr. minimaliste) anlatının kimi ayırtlarını taşıyan Yalın Tutku, ‘sevgiye yabancılaşma, tutkunun kölesi olma ve duygusal şiddete uğrama’ gibi izlekleri okura çok ç…

Horace’s second epode features a rich usurer named Alfius who imagines the pleasures of rural life. In his account, the country provides a haven from financial circuits of credit and interest, howe...

XXI. yüzyıl Fransız Edebiyatının en büyük kadın yazarlarından Annie Ernaux kadın kimliği ve psikolojisi alanında çok sayıda eser vermiştir. Eserlerinde kendi içsel yolculuğunun ve bunun toplumsal karşılıklarının peşine düşmüş, bazen bir kişiyi, bazen de bir duyguyu konu almıştır. İçeriği başlığıyla uyum gösteren ve Tü…

• FATMA KABA

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy aims to add a new dimension of research which has been partly overlooked—a Derridean, Deconstructive reading of Hardy‘s poetry. Analyzing thirty-four popular and less popular poems by Hardy, this volume challenges current references to Derridean Deconstructionism. While Hardy is not conventi…

Taking the Nineteenth Century English novelist Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native as an example, this study explores the contingent relations between literature, geography and space. Hardy’s ‘half-fictional, half-real’ Wessex geography is crucial to discuss this relation. Theories on geography and space, mainly t…

The aim of this study is to point out to the significance of epiphany experienced by the character Elizabeth in “Odour of Chrysanthemums” with an eye on the social realities of the time in which the story was written. With the analysis of the story, this study challenges the claims that D. H Lawrence is a sexist by fe…

• AYCAN GÖKÇEK

This study investigates the themes of creation and identity in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things, set against the backdrop of Victorian anxieties. The novel presents a compelling narrative centered on Bella Baxter, a woman resurrected through an unconventional scientific procedure, symbolizing the era's fears surrounding me…

• MELDA MEDİNE SUNAY

Bu makalenin amacı, günümüz Fransız yazınının önemli yazarlarından Annie Ernaux’nun yapıtlarında betimlenen kadın betisini ve rollerini özyaşamöyküsel verilerden yararlanarak irdelemektir. Bununla birlikte amacımız, toplumsal yapı içerisinde zamanla belirgin biçimde ayrılık gösteren cinsiyet kavramı ile ilgili düşünce…

• ESMA SÖNMEZ ÖZ

There are different forms of othering in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: one which results from Jane’s ambiguous position in terms of class hierarchies and another generated by Bertha’s presence as a colonized subject. In both cases, femininity amplifies gender-specific repercussions in these othering processes. However…

• FİLİZ AKMAN

This article examines how three recent Anglophone novels of early motherhood, namely, Szilvia Molnar’s The Nursery (as Süt Lekesi), Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch (as Gece Kancığı), and Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor (as Asker ile Denizci), circulate in Turkish translation in a context shaped by pronatalist moral economies…

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