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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
(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 ... -
Ambivalence and ambiguity in Thackeray's attitude to his woman characters in Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond
(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, ... -
Animating facial images with drawings
(Bilkent University, 1996)The work presented here describes the power of 2D animation with texture mai^ping controlled by line drawings. Animation is specifically intended for facial animation and not restricted by the human face. We initially ... -
Beyond hierarchies: emerging organizational structures that are non-hierarchical
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A case study: forming an effective quality management system according to ISO 9000 standards
(Bilkent University, 1995)In today's world, companies which adopt themselves to certain internationally recognized standards are one step ahead of their competitors. ISO 9000 Quality System Standards captured the most attention among all. The aim ... -
Class hate into sexual hate in Look Back in Anger
(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 ... -
Desire/Language/Truth: a study of power relations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
(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 ... -
Dystopia and Doppelgangers: the Gothic indictment
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The environmental ethic in Wordsworth's poetry
(Bilkent University, 1995)Wordsworth's poetry, with its emphasis on the independent existence and consciousness of nature , has a distinctive place in the Romantic movement. His interest in the external world is not, of course, totally new and ... -
Examination of the four selected food industry sub-sectors in Turkey and in the European Community
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Failure of love in TSEliot's poems: "Love Song of JAlfred Prufrock", "Portrait of a Lady", "La Figlia che piange", The Waste Land
(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 ... -
Justice delays revenge-The Spanish Tragedy and revenge tradition
(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 ... -
A kaleidoscope of Harold Pinter's plays
(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 ... -
Narrative strategies in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and The Good Soldier
(Bilkent University, 1996)In opposition to theories which gave the author pride of place as the creator of literary works embodying definite meanings, the French thinker Roland Barthes maintained that it was the reader, and not the author, ... -
Narrative techniques in Doris Lessing's stories and sketches
(Bilkent University, 1996)The aim of this thesis is to analyze the themes of Doris Lessing's short stories and sketches, with particular reference to the narrative techniques developed mainly by the French Structuralists Roland Barthes and Gerard ... -
Peter Shaffer's obsessional "myths/religions" : Amadeus, Equus and Yonadab from a psychoanalytic point of view
(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 ... -
Power and gender in John Webster's tragedies
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Productive efficiency of Turkish wind farms: a two-stage data envelopment analysis
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)This thesis estimates the relative productive efficiency of Turkish wind farms to discover their inefficiency reasons using a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We choose three input variables and two output variables ... -
Project management: a case study in construction industry
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The relation between the real and the ideal in the odes of John Keats
(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. ...
