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  • Starship Troopers

    (This is taken from the author’s presentation for another symposium on the general issue of perception. Various talking points have been merged to create this ad-hoc essay. The stream of… Read more

  • Halef Diyarı Kitap Serisi-Kızıl Bostan

    Merhabalar, bu yazımda Halef Diyarı serisinin ilk kitabı olan Kızıl Bostan’ı inceleyeceğim. Kızıl Bostan, Türkiye’de fazla bilinmeyen, bilinse bile ülke içerisinden çıkan örneklerini fazla görmediğimiz bir tür olan fantastik kurgu… Read more

  • This, In My Hand

    A poem with a bladed object and its fealty as its key element. Read more

  • Culture Industry, and Why It Doesn’t Exist

    This short essay will take the views and arguments of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer on their self-named “culture industry” at its key interest, and will try to provide rebutting… Read more

  • Augustan Literature

    Embodying major ideas such as scepticism upon the monarchy, the pursuit of scientific knowledge through reason, and accepting each person as an individual, the Age of Enlightenment which occupied the… Read more

  • What Is Poetry?

    Poetry has been used, recited, written by people for as long as humanity has known itself, and while its technical definition may be that its a form of literary expression… Read more

  • Romantic and Modernist Literature, A Comparison

    Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature, while addressing various concerns in their different ways, are inseparable. Romantic literature is, on paper, concerned with the expression of human emotion while the Victorian… Read more

  • Freud, The Unheimlich, Shortest Explanation

    In his widely-studied essay, Sigmund Freud explores the many facets of what is uncanny, proposing underlying or aiding causes such as the double, repetition, dissolution of familiarity, the return of… Read more

  • Gogol’s Overcoat, Short Analysis

    A short analysis of Nikolai Gogol’s Overcoat, which was and still is a influential piece of literature hailing from the mid-19th century Russian Empire. Read more

  • The Essay-Language is Style, and Style is Language

    This short essay, is all about how essays come to be and their components, mainly that of language and style/decorum. Read more