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This paper explores how layers of history can be parsed in a neighborhood through narrative analysis, using Balat, an old quarter of Istanbul, as a case study. The study tests the relevance of several methodologies and ...

Bu makale İbn Haldun’un asabiyet, mülk ve hanedan kavramlarını tahlil birimleri olarak kullanıp Michel Houellebecq'in Teslimiyet romanındaki karşılıklarını tespit etmektedir. Makalenin yöntemi böylelikle Müslüman Akdenizli ...

This is a polemical paper about how a city may be perceived in different registers, and how ‘the colonial port city’ becomes a spectre that haunts port cities that are not colonial in a strict sense. Istanbul will serve ...

‘I needed a new land, a new race, a new language; and although I couldn’t have put it into words then, I needed a new mystery’, ends the first chapter of John Fowles’s 1965 novel The Magus. This paper argues that in the ...

Michel Houellebecq’s novel Soumission, about an Islamic party coming to power in France, attracted a lot of critical attention after the horrendous attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices. This paper aims to look at the novel ...

Shakespeare’in oyunları genellikle komedi, trajedi ve tarih oyunları olarak tematik türlere ayrılır. Karakter ismi taşıyan oyunlar, olay örgüsü o karakterin özellikleri ve seçimleri çerçevesinde geliştiği için trajedi ...

This study examines the relation between travel writing and postcolonialism. In order to dothis it first looks at the history of travel literature, by doing a close reading of selectedpassages from travel literature, and ...

Readers approaching a book entitled Modernism, Empire, World Literature will have their own understanding of what ‘modernism’ and ‘world’ mean in relation to ‘literature’. A quick look at the book’s contents page reveals ...