Category: Literary Criticism

• 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 türünde olduğundan dikkatimi çekti. Yazar Hakkında Melih Taşcı’nın edebiyata olan ilgisi ilkokulda yazdığı öyküler ve okuduğu kitaplarla başladı. Ortaokul ve lisede edebiyata olan ilgisi artarak…

  Bornaith

  21 November 2024

  Literary Criticism

  DnD, fantastik, Halef Diyarı, kitap, Kızıl Bostan, melihtasci, Nero, Neven, roleplay, Roman, rp, tasci

• 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 statements from a classical liberalist, and laissez-faire perspective. Lines from a summary of their chapter called Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, within the larger…

  Bornaith

  14 September 2024

  Literary Criticism

  Adorno, capitalism, commoditization, culture, dialectic, DialecticofEnglightenment, enlightenment, freemarket, Horkheimer, industry, liberalism, mass, massmedia, media, Theodoradorno

• 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 Era represents an interim period where much is experimental and hard to pin down, and Modernist literature experimented with various new techniques and concepts, and…

  Bornaith

  5 February 2024

  Literary Criticism

  blake, enlightenment, franzkafka, jamesjoyce, kafka, metamorphosis, Modernistliterature, mystical, renaissance, revolution, Romance, romanceliterature, romantic, supernatural, thetygerandthelamb, theworldistoomuchwithus, ulysses, victorian, williamblake, williamwordsworth, wordsworth

• 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 the repressed, ambiguity between what is surreal and real among others to define a concept that hadn’t been properly addressed before. According to Freud, the…

  Bornaith

  5 February 2024

  Literary Criticism

  clinicalpsychology, Coppelius, freud, heimlich, Hoffman, psychology, Sandman, short story, unheimlich

• 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.

  Bornaith

  17 September 2023

  Literary Criticism

  Akaky, bureaucracy, class, criticism, dehumanization, Gogol, hierarchy, nikolaigogol, novella, Overcoat, Russian, russianliterature, satire