EMMA DONOGHUE’NUN THE PULL OF THE STARS ROMANINDA KIYAMET SAHNELERİ

Year 2024, Volume: 17 Issue: 46, 877 - 892, 23.06.2024

Ahmet Yusuf Akyüz

https://doi.org/10.12981/mahder.1463522

Abstract

Ahmet Yusuf Akyüz is an English language literature educator and a researcher in the literary field, specializing in English novels, and historical and postmodern fiction, he has some works on Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, Emma Donoghue’s The Pull Of The Stars, Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and other works.

Keywords

İspanyol gribi pandemisi, coronavirüs pandemisi, Birinci Dünya Savaşı, The Pull Of The Stars.

APOCALYPTIC SCENES IN EMMA DONOGHUE’S THE PULL OF THE STARS

Abstract

Ahmet Yusuf Akyüz is an English language literature educator and a researcher in the literary field, specializing in English novels, and historical and postmodern fiction, he has some works on Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, Emma Donoghue’s The Pull Of The Stars, Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and other works.

Keywords

Spanish flu pandemic, coronavirus pandemic, First World War, The Pull Of The Stars.

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