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Item Open Access Cemal Süreya şiirinde bedenin yazınsallaşması(Bilkent University, 2003) Ergül, Mehmet SelimCemal Süreya (1931-1990), one of Turkey’s major poets, explores the female body in his works. The bodies in Süreya’s poetry can be studied under three headings: Poems about the “other body” where the narrator is constructed as a libertine, about the idealized “perfect body” which is in love with the narrator and about the “imperfect body” which is not sexualized and thus can be depicted as imperfect. Different bodies are mentioned in almost all of Cemal Süreya’s early poems. Sometimes more than one body is encountered in the same poem. This issue has led us to explore the system of libertinism. The female body is represented as a perfect form in most of Cemal Süreya’s love poems, even if their focus is not on eroticism. This approach has similarities with the aesthetic ideal of ancient Greek art. The imperfect body represents the poor and oppressed woman in Cemal Süreya’s poetry. Physical imperfection also symbolizes the political views of the narrator. Eroticism has always been considered the distinctive feature of Cemal Süreya’s poetry. It can be argued that the literary body in Cemal Süreya’s poetry has four different dimensions: Allegorical, metaphorical, hidden and priapic. Nonetheless poems with the above characteristics have always existed side by side with naive, social and sentimental poems as well as with verses where a submissive poet expresses his dedication to one particular woman. Hence one cannot speak of a linear evolution in Cemal Süreya’s poetic discourse on eroticism. Even so, his discourse on libertinism has gradually changed and become marginal in his later work. Cemal Süreya’s poetry includes various discourses that include opposite and contrary elements.Item Open Access Figure and flesh : Francis Bacon's challenge to the figurative tradition in Western art(Bilkent University, 2002) Telci, MügeWhen figuring the body is at stake within the Western tradition of art, figuration comes up as a question of framing and controlling the mass of body (flesh, bones, body liquids etc…). The apparent obsession of Western art with perfect body figures might be understood as an attempt to make safe the permeable boundary between the inside and outside of the body; between the inner self and outside world. Yet the depictions of human body in Francis Bacon’s paintings reveal a disobedience to the conventional norms proposed by the figurative tradition and demonstrate a deliberate failure in controlling the mass of flesh. This thesis aims at a critical discussion on the dualist premises that lie at the core of figurative tradition in Western art by mainly following the path of Deleuze’s examination of Francis Bacon’s workItem Open Access The fluid experience of space : physical body in virtual spaces over an analysis of Osmose(Bilkent University, 2003) Varinlioğlu, GüzdenBy the naissance of virtual reality, the body is repressed and transformed into representation in technological virtuality, and the cyberspace has defined as the space experienced by the mind that is separated from the body. By this transformation to ‘simulacra’, this dystopian world of Neuromancer has become the model for future works. Whereas by the help of Char Davies’ Osmose using Virtual Reality technology, the boundaries of technological virtuality is expanded in such a way to include the de-technologized virtuality: the virtuality of nature. By the use of virtual reality technology, Davies’s interpretation to cyberspace is transgressive in terms of body and space notion. Starting from the definition virtuality of nature, my aim is to analyze the virtuality of water, that will help the thesis to criticize the technology per se and proposes ‘other’ space and body relation in this newly created environment: water space. By the direct ‘contact’ of the body, water space become united with the element, dissolving the boundaries of object/subject, inside/outside splits. Drawing parallel lines between water and imagination, virtuality and freedom, this thesis proposes a look at the cyberspace notion through water.