In Gogol’s story The Overcoat, there are two significant scenes which may be considered as repetition of structure. The first … More
Author: Alparslan Nas
Zelig! Foucault? A Review
Chameleon cured by woman doctor! wrote the papers right before Zelig was gifted with the symbolic keys of New York … More
Notes on French New Wave
French New-Wave is a cinematic movement from late 50’s to late 60’s and it follows Italian neo-realism. This cinematic movement … More
Concept of Enlightenment – Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
_ Concept of Enlightenment is an introductory chapter in Adorno and Horkheimer’s book, Dialectic of Enlightenment, in which they try … More
Poe’s "Purloined Letter" and Lacanian Psychoanalytical Criticism – 3
Continued… Third Scene: Where Minister is distracted of the noise that came from outside while Dupin exchanges the letter. Lacan … More
Poe’s “Purloined Letter” and Lacanian Psychoanalytical Criticism – 2
Continued… _ The letter in “Purloined Letter” by way of its movements, links, connects positions of people in different ways … More
Poe’s "Purloined Letter" and Lacanian Psychoanalytical Criticism – 1
Before Jacques Lacan has proposed psychoanalytical literary criticism on Poe’s well known story Purloined Letter, already established classical-Freudian psychoanalytical approach … More
On Foucault
I’ve recently finished reading Foucault’s History of Sexuality in which he proposes impressive dimensions of thinking on relations between sexuality, … More
On Bakhtin’s "Carnival" and "Grotesque"
Mikhail Bakhtin begins his work, Rabelais and His World with an introductory essay. For him, Rabelais is the most difficult … More
Gilles Deleuze, "Cinema"
Today I’ll write about Gilles Deleuze’s ideas on Italian neo-realism, and cinema in general. Deleuze’s theories on cinema which have … More