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Justice delays revenge-The Spanish Tragedy and revenge tradition

Kükner, Erhan (Bilkent University, 1991)

The Spanish T r a g e d v . one of the best examples of English Renaissance drama, contributed towards the establishment of the revenge tragedy genre, which gained popularity in the years to come. Kyd in this play not ...

Which nightmare to choose? : A study of Heart of Darkness

Tul, Ruhican (Bilkent University, 1991)

This sludy of Conrad’s lioarl of aims aL a close Lextual ¿inalysis of tlie relaLionship between Marlow and Kurtz, ttie two main cluiracters of the novel, and of the role civilisation plays in determining tlie fate of ...

Women in Love as a polyphonic novel

Uzundemir, Özlem (Bilkent University, 1991)

Lawrence’s critics have tended to analyse his novel Women in Love by explaining what the novel "means", and treating the author as an omniscient presence, who organises the plot and the characterisation. This type of ...

Power and gender in John Webster's tragedies

Kıran, Meltem (Bilkent University, 1991)

Religious prejudices and economic interests in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta

Çakırlar, Ali Özkan (Bilkent University, 1991)

Desire/Language/Truth: a study of power relations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Koç, Ertuğrul (Bilkent University, 1992)

Among other things, Nineteen Eightv-Four has been described as an apocalyptic novel, and received as a warning for future generations since the power which totalitarian regimes enjoy, destroys man’s spiritual and physical ...

Peter Shaffer's obsessional "myths/religions" : Amadeus, Equus and Yonadab from a psychoanalytic point of view

Soleimani Ardekani, Maryam (Bilkent University, 1992)

The notion of religion in the western world seems to have undergone a radical change in the twentieth century; the individual, instead of cherishing an orthodox belief in God, has rather preferred to develop a "private ...

A kaleidoscope of Harold Pinter's plays

Kurtuluş, Gül (Bilkent University, 1992)

Critics have tried to approach Pinter’s plays from a variety of changing perspectives, which emerge as a result of the playwright’s inventiveness. Pinter who aims at and achieves perhaps the most original innovations ...

Class hate into sexual hate in Look Back in Anger

Öztürk, Emel (Bilkent University, 1993)

The purpose of this thesis is to consider John Osborne's Look Back in Anger from the point of view of the function of gender. This involves the playwright's depiction of gender contradiction which results from the need ...

Stock market seasonality in the Istanbul Stock Exchange

Erbil, A. Fuat (Bilkent University, 1993)

This study empirically examines stock market seasonality in the Istanbul Stock Exchange Market (IMKB) , Turkey. Current evidence from the studies for other capital markets around the world provides that there are strong ...

Project management: a case study in construction industry

Kömürcü, Ahmet Murat (Bilkent University, 1993)

Examination of the four selected food industry sub-sectors in Turkey and in the European Community

Çetin, Demet (Bilkent University, 1994)

Failure of love in TSEliot's poems: "Love Song of JAlfred Prufrock", "Portrait of a Lady", "La Figlia che piange", The Waste Land

Özyurt, Mine (Bilkent University, 1994)

This dissertation aims at pursuing the failure of love theme in T.S. Eliot's above mentioned poems. In the Introduction, poetry- of Eliot, who is one of the most outstanding figures of Modernist Poetry, ttnd the ...

The theme of divided consciousness in Ibsen's later plays

Berk Küsmenoğlu, Tuba (Bilkent University, 1994)

Ibsen employs several techniques in his plays and each of these serves an essential purpose— the examination of the nature of consciousness. Hence, an analysis of this theme is crucial to the better understanding of ...

The relation between the real and the ideal in the odes of John Keats

Moghimi, Zöhreh (Bilkent University, 1994)

The great odes--"Ode to Psyche, " "Ode to a Nightingale, " "Ode on a Grecian Urn, " "Ode on Melancholy, " and "To Autumn"--were written in the year 1819, when Keats was approaching his imminent death from tuberculosis. ...

Ambivalence and ambiguity in Thackeray's attitude to his woman characters in Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond

Babaloğlu, Vicdan (Bilkent University, 1994)

William Makepeace Thackeray is ambivalent in his depiction of woman characters, which is primarily the result of the discrepancy in the attitude to women of the Victorian society· Like many of the contemporary novelists, ...

Alan Ayckbourn's theatricality and use of comedy in Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business and Henceforward: marriage, family, private-public and absence of standards

Bayol, Ebru (Bilkent University, 1994)

The aim of this dissertation is to focus on three of Alan Ayckbourn's recent plays, namely Woman in Mind, A Small Business and Henceforward in order to analyse how Ayckbourn employs visual elements and how he creates ...