Contemporary American Literature- commonly referred to as postmodern literature since the 1960s- is an outcome of the multicultural nature of the American society. It gives long-ignored groups such as women, African Americans ...

There is a dark strain which can be traced in the poetry of all the major nineteenth century English romantic poets: a scepticism about the ultimate purpose of man's life, a sense of having lost a metaphysical certainty ...

John Webster (1580-1634), a highly sophisticated yet equally pessimistic playwright of Jacobean England, depicts a world of corruption in which there is no place for the conventional notions of good and evil. In Webster's ...

During the eighteenth-century, the antagonist, previously the second most important character in a story, becomes, first in Richardson's Clarissa, and then under Gothic influence, the main character in the novel. This ...

Feminist intervention in theatre studies in recent years has initiated new ways of reading and interpreting Shakespeare's plays by shifting the focus from conventional text-centered analysis to seeing the play [...]

Fransız filozof Gilles Deleuze'ün The Logic of Sense kitabında psikanalizle kurduğu yoğun ilişki, Deleuze düşüncesi içinde tutarsız bir aşama olarak sıklıkla sorunsallaştırılmıştır. Bu makale, söz konusu kitapta diziler ...

This article argues that Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz’s novel published in 1937 in Poland, formally and thematically subverts the classical Bildungsroman. The seminal novel that has propagated the Bildungsroman genre is ...