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Item Open Access Ecology, love, and relationships in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella(David publisher, 2015) Kurtuluş, G.One of the threats to the modern men today is the quick change in seasons and unusual fluctuations in temperature. Contemporary life is marked with various conditions that make life comparatively different and for that matter difficult for everyone. Amongst many worldly things, like materialism, struggle to survive in the highly competitive urban settings, people tend to consider the merits of cosmopolitanism more than anything else. Curiously enough, Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnets, though written in the 16th century and become milestones of the sonnet tradition in the English Renaissance which are applicable to today’s global concern of environmentalism. When considered in the light of ecocriticism, Sidney’s sonnets provide a suitable ground for the modern readers to reevaluate the current situation of the world we live in and the nature that we inherit from our ancestors. This paper aims to analyze some of Sidney’s selected sonnets from Astrophil and Stella in the light of ecocritical approach to literary works.Item Open Access Multidimensional and ambidextrous Shakespeare(Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 2017) Kurtuluş, G.Item Open Access Patriotism and the Spirit of Macbeth's ambition in Dunsinane(Queen Margaret University College, 2014) Kurtuluş, G.Item Open Access T. S. Eliot’s spiritual journey in designing the cocktail party as a drama of conversion(David publisher, 2016-06) Kurtuluş, G.In his quest for spiritual fulfillment, Thomas Stearns Eliot conducts a meticulous religious study which teaches him distinctive interpretations of human existence and their various functions that they are supposed to assume in the world. Eliot’s personal attachment to religious knowledge and his reflections of religious studies inevitably manifest themselves in his literary works; be it his dramas or poems, mostly in the forms of philosophical and psychoanalytical analysis of his characters and the detected problems observed in their relationships. The Cocktail Party, a play starting off as a drawing-room comedy soon converts to a serious analysis of human psychology and the nature of human interactions. While engaging with these particular points, the play offers possibilities to discuss several religious allusions, though dealt with subtly. Integrated with religion, characters’ attitudes towards a given situation and their final decision position them in their quest either in “hypothetical” enlightenment or in a “supposed” repetition of a vicious circle. The enforcing power behind the play is interestingly a psychiatrist, who adds dynamism and mystery to the plot and has a special task in making the play a drama of conversion. The inner conflicts of the characters which ultimately lead to a series of problems in their relationships are the main concern which causes the characters search for different solutions. Accordingly, they make their own choices to cease their inner struggles. This paper aims to explore the concept of conversion in Eliot’s The Cocktail Party with references to the playwright’s religious journey in his literary career.