İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University
Journal of Philology İYYJP

A package explodes, and a security guard is injured at Northwestern University in the United States in 1978. Following this date, 16 similar bombings took place over 17 years, 3 people lost their lives, and many were injured. The perpetrator is not found for a very long period, and since the bombings take place in Universities and Airlines, the perpetrator is called UNABOMBER (UNiversity and Airline BOMBER). Years later, the perpetrator is reached based on the language he used in a text he published and called the “manifesto.” The wording and expressions used—found in the text—formed a “linguistic fingerprint.”

The ‘American Dream’ and its relationship to American literature has long been a subject of extensive research. This article strives to portray the ‘American Dream’ in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The ‘American Dream’ represents the idea that people can achieve anything if they follow their dreams. Fitzgerald paints a picture of the people of the Jazz Age who are driven by their passion for wealth and possessions.

Postcolonialism incorporates all cultures affected by colonialism from the beginning of colonization to the present day. Aiming to express the ways the colonizer shapes society, postcolonial writers frequently reverse the colonial discourse and maintain that colonized countries have a national identity. In this respect, prominent Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe indicates the effects of colonization on both cultural and individual levels in his works.

Plays by Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane epitomize an unflinchingly outspoken criticism of pre-established social parameters not solely via unorthodox dramaturgy but also through radical experimentation and controversial content. This study purports to align Caryl Churchill’s Far Away and Sarah Kane’s Blasted with Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s concept of the camp by resorting to a comparative analysis of the plays with scrutiny of their peculiar tenets.

The world of differences provides various outlooks and perspectives, such as ideological dissimilarities in human beings’ lives, and, therefore, people may experience distinctive challenges in contact with others. With a concrete realization of the phenomenon and how to respond to any external and internal force, any unique individual may start to think of the bases and formulation of such incidents.