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Item Open Access Ambivalent and shifting codes of fear and desire in Dracula movies(Bilkent University, 2004) Özkaracalar, KayaThis study, which takes Robin Wood’s methodology to find the answer to the question ‘what does the monster stand for?’ as its base with certain nuances, investigates the ambivalent and shifting sets of connotations embedded in Dracula movies. The main focus is on the sexual and sexuality-related connotations involving fear and desire. A secondary set of connotations related to Otherness attributed to foreign cultures is also investigated. The study aims to delineate the degree and the limits of variance across time and across different cinematic spaces.Item Open Access An ecocritical analysis of human–others and nature–others in popular animated fantasy series(Bilkent University, 2021-09) Altıok, RevnaThis thesis examines the representations of human-Others and nature-Others in popular animated fantasy series from an ecocritical perspective, and with an ecofeminist approach. The five animated series this thesis investigates, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018-2020), Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020), Disenchantment (2018-), Wizards (2020), and The Dragon Prince (2018-), while all being fantasy texts, have environmentally conscious stories that revolve around characters who are framed as Others in most societies. These marginalized Others, as expected from the fantasy genre, are not always presented as Others we know from our reality, but as mythical creatures and humanoids. Through a close reading of the character designs, settings, and the narratives of these five animated fantasy series, this study aims to explore and uncover new territories where the voices of both human-Others and nature-Others are heard and made clear.Item Open Access The image of the other in the fifteenth-century Christian and Muslim hagiographies(Bilkent University, 2008) Nazlar, NergizIn the thesis we have aimed to examine the image of the other in fifteenthcentury Ottoman history. With this aim in mind, we have carried out our research focusing on the analysis of the image of the other both within the population of Orthodox Christians under Ottoman rule, and also within Ottoman society. We have argued that hagiographies and menakıbnames can be utilized as reliable historical sources for cultural-historical research. With this view we have examined eight Orthodox Christian neo-martyr hagiographies and two Ottoman menakıbnames from the fifteenth century (more specifically those of Şeyh Bedreddin and Otman Baba), in addition to Byzantine and Ottoman chronicles of the period. Three fundamental tasks are established as the focus of the thesis: who the other is, how the other is perceived, and what this process of otherization reveals about the prejudices, preoccupations, and concerns of the authors in relation to the broader world. Our analysis of the image of the other in fifteenth century Ottoman history shows that although the hagiographical and menakıbname sources were written from a religious perspective, how the other was perceived in this period had much more to do with political than theological motivations. The socio-religious antagonisms witnessed in these texts should thus be seen a result of the underlying political antagonisms arising in the fifteenth century, both within the Orthodox Christian populations under Ottoman rule and among the Muslim Ottoman population, rather than being treated in isolation as a strictly religious affair.Item Open Access Jokes in "Englishman-Frenchman and German" verbal narrative form and ethnic humor(2005) Uçar, A.This paper is largely based on the linguistic theories of humor as formulated by Raskin and Attardo, and Davis's interpretation of these theories in relation to the ethnic jokes. The main argument is that, a joke could be regarded as "truly" ethnic, only if it contains an ethnic element which is integral to that joke and cannot easily be removed. As a matter of fact, most jokes can be applied to all ethnic backgrounds and are not "truly" ethnic. As the study of samples of "Englishman-Frenchman and German" jokes told in Turkish have shown that there are not any "truly etnic" element in those jokes and it is easy to find jokes which have the same scripts also told in english for different nationalities. The script opposition of these jokes is not based on truly ethnic elements and they do not contain any ethnic stereotypes or prejudices or they do not require any prior knowledge in regard to these nationalities. Although it can be said that they contain a certain kind of aggression and a certain sense of "superiority", this agression has not been directed to any special ethnic group but rather to the unknown "Other".