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With its overwhelmingly monistic viewpoint, ecocriticism, like the natural sciences it benefits f... more With its overwhelmingly monistic viewpoint, ecocriticism, like the natural sciences it benefits from or shares with, adheres to a priori phenomena, marginalising, for the most part, the supernatural. Yet this study which does not conceptualise the natural and supernatural in contradictory terms postulates that – though rejected by science because it lacks the “regularities of nature” – the supra-physical correlates with natural or physical phenomena and therefore can be considered within the scope of ecocriticism, referring as proof to “the battalion that vanished” at Gallipoli, Turkey, reportedly on 12/21/25/28 August 1915. That day, during one of the bloodiest battles of the Dardanelles Campaign, a British troop marches into an unusually low-slung cloud and disappears forever. Eyewitnesses interpret and document what they saw as divine intervention, and in time, albeit on the periphery of World War I, the nebulous event turns into a myth inseparable from the literary ecology, as well as the collective (environmental) memory, of both the Turkish and Allied sides.
This study is intended to ruminate on the mentioned hard-to-comprehend event as a myth once and still being verbalised and written about by the many, adopting a dualistic approach like “Clouds do not swallow men, the case of „the battalion that vanished‟ excepted.” While not downplaying the materiality of the happening – by touching upon such meteorological issues as the atmospheric conditions conducive to the formation of clouds and the features of different types of clouds alongside the topography of the battlefield – the study, using as its base the Gallipoli soldiers‟ accounts and derivative narratives, highlights the metaphysical dimension of the ecologically mysterious event, calling attention to the likelihood that the natural and the supernatural may segue into and complement each other and the Divine may manifest Himself through material nature, a course conceivable to call “pantheistic ecocriticism.”
ADDING LIFE TO DEATH: SEAMUS HEANEY’S “BOG POEMS” In the late 1960s and early 70s, the sectarian ... more ADDING LIFE TO DEATH: SEAMUS HEANEY’S “BOG POEMS”
In the late 1960s and early 70s, the sectarian conflicts in Northern Ireland and the disappearance of Irish culture under British rule push the famous Irish poet Seamus Heaney to
make an attempt to reach a historical understanding of these problems so that a solution might be brought about. In his sequence of “bog poems” – among which “Bogland,” “The Tollund Man,” “Bog Queen,” and “Punishment” are selected for consideration in this study - Heaney interweaves the violence he witnesses in Northern Ireland with the Iron Age ritual killings practiced in Scandinavia and different places of Europe, with references and allusions to P.V. Glob’s archaeological book, The Bog People which contains the exceptionally striking photographs of the most well-preserved bodies of the victims who were sacrificed and buried in the peat bogs two thousand years ago. Heaney takes the ancient Iron Age people as the ancestors of the Irish and draws a parallel between their violent culture and the one that separates contemporary Northern Ireland into opposing parts. The poems, as a whole, can be regarded as an attempt to restore the Irish culture.
Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Parts I and II (1631), a romantic comedy about an ove... more Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Parts I and II (1631), a romantic comedy about an overseas travel oscillating between England, North Africa, and Italy, combines adventurous action with contemporary history which enables the audience/reader to trace implications and overt displays of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century international contacts. Nevertheless, the historical basis the play rests on is largely fictionalised since the writer intends to rank the characters--among whom the English, the Spanish, and the Mediterranean Moors are focused on in this article--in a hierarchy of superiority and inferiority. Heywood draws boundaries between these people of different nations and cultures, disapproving of ethnic merging both in bodily and cultural terms, and uses such categories as skin colour, alleged levels of intelligence, religion and behavioural traits to define and assert the superiority of the English, even though at the cost of sounding considerably racist and failing to present an accurate account of what really happened in history.
POE and P-E-N: An Inquiry into Personality This paper, based on post-mortem biographies of Edgar... more POE and P-E-N: An Inquiry into Personality
This paper, based on post-mortem biographies of Edgar Allan Poe as well as the writer’s own letters and works which provide a glimpse of his mind from the inside, aims to explore the brilliant but troubled Poe in the light of the three-factor model of personality (aka P-E-N, the abbreviation for psychoticism, extroversion, and neuroticism) proposed by Hans Jürgen Eysenck, one of the most outstanding psychologists of the twentieth century.
The main discussion in the present study revolves around Poe’s character traits treated with reference to such terms as introversion and extroversion (introversion meaning, in the sense Eysenck used it, the inclination to avoid social engagement, and extroversion, the inclination to enjoy outer influences, particularly social contact) to make the assertions that Poe suffered from bipolar disorder and that his dominant introvert side made him vulnerable to psychoses of various kinds like paranoia, hallucinations, and loss of contact with reality to the point of madness, which is generally attributed to those with a high level of creative ability, in addition to other psychopathology manifested in the form of obsessions and thoughts of suicide. In so doing, that there may be a genetic or biological basis to his psychotic condition is also underlined, alongside the external substances, alcohol and laudanum, Poe used at the cost of his mind. Finally, the paper refers to the temperament theory Eysenck reformulated by pairing neuroticism and extroversion, and tries to determine which one or ones of the four personality types (choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic) defines Poe best.
FROM DEATH PSYCHOLOGY TO DEEP ECOLOGY AND EASE: KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S FINAL DAYS IN FRANCE In 19... more FROM DEATH PSYCHOLOGY TO
DEEP ECOLOGY AND EASE:
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S FINAL DAYS IN FRANCE
In 1922, at a time when death was closing on her, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) could forget the solemnity of her state by adopting a holistic approach to the world, which, in 1973, Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss (1912-2009) would theorise about and term “deep ecology.” At the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau-Avon, on the threshold of her permanent end, deep in her psyche Mansfield found happiness in the feeling of kinship with and compassion for life forms other than her own. There she also saw the physical representation of the philosophy of deep ecology in Russian mystic George Ivanovich Gurdjieff’s (1866?-1949) “Movements,” a symbolic dance deemed sacred and traceable to Sufism which, with its stress on the unity within the universe, had centuries ago foreshadowed deep ecology. Furthermore, at Fontainebleau, where the paths of people of different nationalities and creeds intersected, Mansfield felt affiliated with humans, thereby calling Gurdjieff’s disciples “my people,” and contemplated in unison with them man’s symbiotic relation to the universe. This paper, focused on the last stage of Mansfield’s life which she spent in France with references to her letters and other relevant writings, proposes to discuss that in the said period and setting, the writer acquired a sense of oneness with both human and nonhuman nature, or nature in its totality, which ultimately, like alchemy, transformed the painful period she had to endure into a rewarding one.
THE RENEGADE PIRATES OF BARBARY AND THEIR REFLECTION IN LITERATURE Around the seventeenth century... more THE RENEGADE PIRATES OF BARBARY AND THEIR REFLECTION IN LITERATURE
Around the seventeenth century, European sailors, who were determined to join the
Muslim pirates operating off the coast of North Africa, flocked to Barbary. They were in pursuit of material gain, but to rise to wealth they would have to come to terms with the transformatory effect this shift of locale would have on their lives and develop some adaptive strategies, such as changing their religion and names, in addition to sharing their nautical knowledge with the earlier settlers of the land. After all this was done, they could finally set sail as the Barbary pirates whose main target was Christian ships.
To illustrate the above statement, this study, with reference to some historical and
literary texts, explores the stories of three renegade pirates: John Ward, a.k.a. Yusuf Reis, Simon Danser, or “Diablo Reis,” and Jan Jansen, or the reputable Murat Reis.
Papers by Şebnem Kaya
Interactions, Mar 22, 2007
aijcrnet.com
... As if and politics. Political Psychology, 4(4), 685-692. Retrieved March 24, 2009, from URL... more ... As if and politics. Political Psychology, 4(4), 685-692. Retrieved March 24, 2009, from URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3791061 Séllei, N. (1996). Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A personal and professional bond. Frankfurt am Mair: Peter Lang. Smith, A. (2000). ...
Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi, 2007
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews
With its overwhelmingly monistic viewpoint, ecocriticism, like the natural sciences it benefits f... more With its overwhelmingly monistic viewpoint, ecocriticism, like the natural sciences it benefits from or shares with, adheres to a priori phenomena, marginalising, for the most part, the supernatural. Yet this study which does not conceptualise the natural and supernatural in contradictory terms postulates that – though rejected by science because it lacks the “regularities of nature” – the supra-physical correlates with natural or physical phenomena and therefore can be considered within the scope of ecocriticism, referring as proof to “the battalion that vanished” at Gallipoli, Turkey, reportedly on 12/21/25/28 August 1915. That day, during one of the bloodiest battles of the Dardanelles Campaign, a British troop marches into an unusually low-slung cloud and disappears forever. Eyewitnesses interpret and document what they saw as divine intervention, and in time, albeit on the periphery of World War I, the nebulous event turns into a myth inseparable from the literary ecology, as well as the collective (environmental) memory, of both the Turkish and Allied sides.
This study is intended to ruminate on the mentioned hard-to-comprehend event as a myth once and still being verbalised and written about by the many, adopting a dualistic approach like “Clouds do not swallow men, the case of „the battalion that vanished‟ excepted.” While not downplaying the materiality of the happening – by touching upon such meteorological issues as the atmospheric conditions conducive to the formation of clouds and the features of different types of clouds alongside the topography of the battlefield – the study, using as its base the Gallipoli soldiers‟ accounts and derivative narratives, highlights the metaphysical dimension of the ecologically mysterious event, calling attention to the likelihood that the natural and the supernatural may segue into and complement each other and the Divine may manifest Himself through material nature, a course conceivable to call “pantheistic ecocriticism.”
ADDING LIFE TO DEATH: SEAMUS HEANEY’S “BOG POEMS” In the late 1960s and early 70s, the sectarian ... more ADDING LIFE TO DEATH: SEAMUS HEANEY’S “BOG POEMS”
In the late 1960s and early 70s, the sectarian conflicts in Northern Ireland and the disappearance of Irish culture under British rule push the famous Irish poet Seamus Heaney to
make an attempt to reach a historical understanding of these problems so that a solution might be brought about. In his sequence of “bog poems” – among which “Bogland,” “The Tollund Man,” “Bog Queen,” and “Punishment” are selected for consideration in this study - Heaney interweaves the violence he witnesses in Northern Ireland with the Iron Age ritual killings practiced in Scandinavia and different places of Europe, with references and allusions to P.V. Glob’s archaeological book, The Bog People which contains the exceptionally striking photographs of the most well-preserved bodies of the victims who were sacrificed and buried in the peat bogs two thousand years ago. Heaney takes the ancient Iron Age people as the ancestors of the Irish and draws a parallel between their violent culture and the one that separates contemporary Northern Ireland into opposing parts. The poems, as a whole, can be regarded as an attempt to restore the Irish culture.
Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Parts I and II (1631), a romantic comedy about an ove... more Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Parts I and II (1631), a romantic comedy about an overseas travel oscillating between England, North Africa, and Italy, combines adventurous action with contemporary history which enables the audience/reader to trace implications and overt displays of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century international contacts. Nevertheless, the historical basis the play rests on is largely fictionalised since the writer intends to rank the characters--among whom the English, the Spanish, and the Mediterranean Moors are focused on in this article--in a hierarchy of superiority and inferiority. Heywood draws boundaries between these people of different nations and cultures, disapproving of ethnic merging both in bodily and cultural terms, and uses such categories as skin colour, alleged levels of intelligence, religion and behavioural traits to define and assert the superiority of the English, even though at the cost of sounding considerably racist and failing to present an accurate account of what really happened in history.
POE and P-E-N: An Inquiry into Personality This paper, based on post-mortem biographies of Edgar... more POE and P-E-N: An Inquiry into Personality
This paper, based on post-mortem biographies of Edgar Allan Poe as well as the writer’s own letters and works which provide a glimpse of his mind from the inside, aims to explore the brilliant but troubled Poe in the light of the three-factor model of personality (aka P-E-N, the abbreviation for psychoticism, extroversion, and neuroticism) proposed by Hans Jürgen Eysenck, one of the most outstanding psychologists of the twentieth century.
The main discussion in the present study revolves around Poe’s character traits treated with reference to such terms as introversion and extroversion (introversion meaning, in the sense Eysenck used it, the inclination to avoid social engagement, and extroversion, the inclination to enjoy outer influences, particularly social contact) to make the assertions that Poe suffered from bipolar disorder and that his dominant introvert side made him vulnerable to psychoses of various kinds like paranoia, hallucinations, and loss of contact with reality to the point of madness, which is generally attributed to those with a high level of creative ability, in addition to other psychopathology manifested in the form of obsessions and thoughts of suicide. In so doing, that there may be a genetic or biological basis to his psychotic condition is also underlined, alongside the external substances, alcohol and laudanum, Poe used at the cost of his mind. Finally, the paper refers to the temperament theory Eysenck reformulated by pairing neuroticism and extroversion, and tries to determine which one or ones of the four personality types (choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic) defines Poe best.
FROM DEATH PSYCHOLOGY TO DEEP ECOLOGY AND EASE: KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S FINAL DAYS IN FRANCE In 19... more FROM DEATH PSYCHOLOGY TO
DEEP ECOLOGY AND EASE:
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S FINAL DAYS IN FRANCE
In 1922, at a time when death was closing on her, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) could forget the solemnity of her state by adopting a holistic approach to the world, which, in 1973, Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss (1912-2009) would theorise about and term “deep ecology.” At the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau-Avon, on the threshold of her permanent end, deep in her psyche Mansfield found happiness in the feeling of kinship with and compassion for life forms other than her own. There she also saw the physical representation of the philosophy of deep ecology in Russian mystic George Ivanovich Gurdjieff’s (1866?-1949) “Movements,” a symbolic dance deemed sacred and traceable to Sufism which, with its stress on the unity within the universe, had centuries ago foreshadowed deep ecology. Furthermore, at Fontainebleau, where the paths of people of different nationalities and creeds intersected, Mansfield felt affiliated with humans, thereby calling Gurdjieff’s disciples “my people,” and contemplated in unison with them man’s symbiotic relation to the universe. This paper, focused on the last stage of Mansfield’s life which she spent in France with references to her letters and other relevant writings, proposes to discuss that in the said period and setting, the writer acquired a sense of oneness with both human and nonhuman nature, or nature in its totality, which ultimately, like alchemy, transformed the painful period she had to endure into a rewarding one.
THE RENEGADE PIRATES OF BARBARY AND THEIR REFLECTION IN LITERATURE Around the seventeenth century... more THE RENEGADE PIRATES OF BARBARY AND THEIR REFLECTION IN LITERATURE
Around the seventeenth century, European sailors, who were determined to join the
Muslim pirates operating off the coast of North Africa, flocked to Barbary. They were in pursuit of material gain, but to rise to wealth they would have to come to terms with the transformatory effect this shift of locale would have on their lives and develop some adaptive strategies, such as changing their religion and names, in addition to sharing their nautical knowledge with the earlier settlers of the land. After all this was done, they could finally set sail as the Barbary pirates whose main target was Christian ships.
To illustrate the above statement, this study, with reference to some historical and
literary texts, explores the stories of three renegade pirates: John Ward, a.k.a. Yusuf Reis, Simon Danser, or “Diablo Reis,” and Jan Jansen, or the reputable Murat Reis.
Interactions, Mar 22, 2007
aijcrnet.com
... As if and politics. Political Psychology, 4(4), 685-692. Retrieved March 24, 2009, from URL... more ... As if and politics. Political Psychology, 4(4), 685-692. Retrieved March 24, 2009, from URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3791061 Séllei, N. (1996). Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A personal and professional bond. Frankfurt am Mair: Peter Lang. Smith, A. (2000). ...
Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi, 2007
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews
International Journal of Language Academy, 2017
Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi, 2005
International Journal of Language Academy, 2015
In her short story " The Garden Party, " Katherine Mansfield concentrates on the conventional but... more In her short story " The Garden Party, " Katherine Mansfield concentrates on the conventional but false education given to an upper-class girl child named Laura in order to explore, or rather refute, the Victorian socio-moral values which restrained women by means of influencing their way of looking at life. The education in question that by design avoids initiating Laura to the realities of life, such as poverty and death presented as experiences lived by people outside Laura's privileged social class, leaves her unprepared to face these facts, rendering her confused and inconsistent.