Oroonoko: Royal or Slave; Bakhtinian Reading of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

Cast-Mistresses: The Widow Figure in Oroonoko

International Journal of Scottish Literature 'ev'ry Heart Can Feel': Scottish Poetic Responses to Slavery in the West Indies, from Blair to Burns

In 1788, the Scottish physician John Ferriar published an ‘altered’ stage version of Oroonoko that ‘adapted’ the play to the ‘circumstances of the present times’.[1] In his preface to the play, Ferriar explains that ‘when the attempt to abolish the African Slave Trade commenced in Manchester, some active friends of the cause imagined, that by assembling a few of the principal topics, in a drama...

The Location of Memory A Bakhtinian Reading of Bahram Beyzaie’s The Crow

This study is concerned with the use of specific tools from Mikhail Bakhtin’s comprehensive literary work in order to investigate the notion of time/space in Bahram Beyzaie’s 1979 movie, The Crow. Employing the Bakhtinian notion of chronotope in the analysis of the movie as a cinematic text proves helpful in developing the notion of anachronotopicity, which is then utilized to investigate the w...

A Bakhtinian Understanding of

Doğan Yüksel [email protected] Abstract It is generally accepted that there is not a single school of thought that is called social constructivism, and ideas and assumptions from various disciplines in different fields are being incorporated into the social constructivist understanding. In this paper, a Bakhtinian perspective of social constructivism on education and language learning...

Bakhtinian Understanding to Web Graphics

The paper introduces a new way of understanding the web graphics phenomenon. We based it on the popular culture approach by M. Bakhtin. We introduce and exemplify the categories of ambiguous messages created and communicated by web graphics. The discussion on coding of ambiguous information is given. Revolution in multimedia requires completing conventions in information coding. One day, the pa...