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Notes on Kafka’s "Josephine the Singer, or the Mousefolk"
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Please e-mail to read the full article … Smith and Watson introduce Bakhtin’s notion of heteroglossia as which “assumes a…
Toward a New Model of Autobiographer: Analyses of Narrative and Chronology Structures in Roland Barthes’ “Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes” and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”
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A Very Brief Discussion on the Relation between Nationalism and Contemporary Turkish Literature and Politics
A useful analysis with regard to the function of nationalism in contemporary Turkey might be conducted through a theoretical vision…
A Discussion on Bourdieu’s “Scholastic View”, Clifford’s “Dialogic Authority” and Haraway’s “Situated Knowledges” through an Experiment on How to Write a Dialogic Essay
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A Commentary on the Influence of Simone de Beauvoir on Contemporary Gender Studies and Some Other Feminist Literature
In “The Second Sex” Simone de Beauvoir doesn’t use the term “gender”, however several statements in her work imply the…
Notes on Urbanism: Lefebvre, Castells – Althusser, Marx
In urban studies, Henri Lefebvre is known for his humanist critique of urbanism. Similar to Althusser, Lefebvre is also interested…
On Performativity and Minor Literature
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Goodbye Lenin! Sinemada Hipergerçeklik ve Sosyalist Düşlem
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