Browsing Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı by Title
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Dirty White Candles: Ernest Hemingway's Encounter with the east
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Publisher and Date:(Univ Texas Press, 2012)
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Jonson and the alchemical economy of desire: creation defacement and castration in the 'Alchemist'
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Publisher and Date:(Univ Paul Valery, 2002)Behind images of Ben Jonson as the virtuous centred stoic writer lie the traces of a morbid fear concerning the fate of the poet's creation and name. The Jonsonian oeuvre reveals a fear of the ultimate defacement and effacement of the writer's ephemeral text. A prophylactic strategy of auto-critique as well as borrowing and even plagiarism from established literary sources point to the desire to control the critical reception of the writer's works and guarantee the terms of his own posterity. In ...
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Paul Bowles as i knew him
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Publisher and Date:(Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)
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Prayer bead gestures and television: A case study on cultural inspirations for interaction art education
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Publisher and Date:(MIT Press Journals, 2009)The authors interactive design-art educators recount their experience in using cultural inspirations as part of student exercises. The authors found that although students proposed various design concepts drawing from the surrounding culture very few moved beyond experience design art. In order to remedy this situation without giving explicit direction the authors encouraged students to examine cultural habits and/or artifacts from their past or their current lives in the hope that this could ...
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Strangers to and producers of their own culture: American popular culture and Turkish young people
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Publisher and Date:(2010)American popular culture is virtually everywhere including Turkey. Turkey is a close ally of the United States and American cultural products have long been present in Turkey. How does the presence of American popular culture in Turkey affect young people? Employing a series of focus groups comprised of Turkish university students we explored the meanings they attach to American popular culture and the place it has in their lives. What emerged was a portrait of Turkish young people constructing ...
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Supplementally and the sonnet: A reading of Ronsard's Les Amours Diverses 45
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Publisher and Date:(University of Nebraska Press, 2005)
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The not so new Turkish woman: A statistical look at women in two Istanbul neighborhoods
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Publisher and Date:(2009)Using survey data gathered from nearly 400 women living in two Istanbul neighborhoods this article explores issues of work education family and feminism. In addition to presenting the findings we argue that there is a continued gap between the ideal of the Republican woman and the actual practices of this group of Turkish women. The picture of these Turkish women that emerged from this survey is that of women still largely in the grips of an ideal born in the early days of the Turkish Republic. ...
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The Upsides of Expatriation and Exile for Turkish Writers and Writers Living in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Palacky Univ, 2014)While Turkey gets plenty of news coverage because of political oppression that often leads Turkish writers to flee their country and seek exile in countries with more tolerant governments it has also served as a nesting ground for writers who have left their native countries because they seek the stimulation that comes from living in a country with a different language and culture from their own or because they wish to spend time in an area traditionally associated with the wellsprings of Western ...
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TRANSLATION AS THE SINE QUA NON IN MODERN AMERICAN POETICS
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Publisher and Date:(Palacky Univ, 2014)This essay is based largely on the theory of translation set forth by Walter Benjamin in the 1923 essay "The Task of the Translator," which introduced his translation of Baudelaire's "Tableaux parisiens." It attempts to show that modernist and postmoderhist American poetry, beginning with the symbolist movement in America concurrent with Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot's seminal poetic texts that initiated the imagist movement and the high modernist style of writing, conform to Benjamin's ideas about ...