Analysis

Literary theory and criticism have developed over the course of more than 3000 years, starting with Aristotle and even Plato and Socrates, and it took many forms based on the time period or conditions within which the theory arose. Literary theory is basically seeking an answer to why we read and produce literature and what makes a work of literature good while literary criticism is the appliance of the theory in practice to evaluate or understand a work of literature. There have been many ways to read a text throughout the history but as for Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, I will use certain methods to do a close reading into the selected 20 lines from the text. These are Platonian reading, Aristotelian reading, Horacian reading, Russian Formalism, and lastly Psychoanalytic or Freudian reading. ...

Kübilay Han - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Yahut bir görü, düş içinden bir kesit. Aziz Alp nehrinin, insanoğlunun ölçüsünü Aşan oymakları arasından, Güngörmez nehre aktığı yolda, Xanadu’da, verdi inşa hükmünü Kubilay Han Görkemli safa kümbetinin. Surlar ve burçlarla çevrelenmiş Yirmibeş dekarlık mümbit toprak; Ve ışıltılı, büklüm büklüm oluklarıyla, İçlerinde buhur kokulu ağaçlar olan bahçeler, Ve nebetat’ın gün düşen yüzünü sarıp sarmalayan, Doruklar kadar kadim koruluklar vardı orada. Ama yahu! Sedir koruluğuna yamaç, çayırlı tepeye Boynunu büken o engin ve hulyalı gedik! Zalim bir mahal! İfrit muhipine ağıtlar çığıran Bir kadınca musallata uğramış küçülen bir Mehtabın altında, daimi mukaddes ve mest! Ve bu gedikten, hengamesi bitmez bir köpürtü, Tıpkı bu dünya derin derin soluklanırmışçasına, İhtişamlı bir gayzer, bir anlık fışkırır. Ara ara gelen bu tez kükremeler arasında Yerden seken dolu taneleri gibi, yahut bir harmancının Döveni altında ezilen buğdaylar gibi uçuşan kallavi kayalar! Ve bu raks eden taşlar arasından, birden ve ebedi, Kükrer bir anlığına kutsal nehir. ...

Arthur Miller is one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century who was born in 1915 and was awarded a Pulitzer Price. His legacy will without doubt live forever defying aging and time because they deal with the social realities and the nature of people that all of humanity possessed here and there. His inclination to communism rendered him as a critic of the capitalism that climbed towards its peak in the 20th century, and he wittingly criticized capitalism and the inner nature of people with successful allegories. ...

There are many candidates for the first English novel starting from Le Morte d’Arthur from 15th century to Gulliver’s Travels from the 18th century, however, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is widely accepted as the first English novel and thusly, in- 18th century occurred the rise of the novel in English. Among these candidates appears a common theme of travel and this theme has been kept using for a long while later than the first novels. Actually, travel accounts and writings were already common in other genres so it is not a surprise that it was applied to this newly emerging genre. ...