American Studies and US History

A true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception and lies sincerely. André Gide Abstract: Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick should be taken as an archetypal work for monomania, a " conspicuously invisible " fetish in many Hollywood movies. Captain Ahab's monomania to kill the white whale that ripped off one leg of his justifies his quest for revenge. The aim in this paper is to give some examples from history and visual popular culture and other fields of popular culture that enhances and is fed by this syndrome. Fear-stricken masses are left with the 'faith in justice' by means of canonized, mediated or simulated realities of questionable authenticity, which they have no other alternative but take as reality. Therefore, apocryphal history is an effective vehicle towards the power-monitored hegemonic stability and globalization.

Both Sylvia Plath and Nilgün Marmara made • their statements in life and in their poetry. Plath wrote for about seven years (1956-1963) and died on February 11, aged 30. Marmara wrote for ten years (1977-87) and decided to Jet herself out on October 13, 1987, aged 29. Plath's and Marmara's lives and works reflect a kaleidoscopic nature of existence, a life made up of many fragments, which therefore, defies rational explanation and categorization. After The Colossus was published, many critics were fascinated by Plath's revelation of both physical and mental pain and the stunning use of the limits of the • • English langua,ge. The same can be said for Marmara's poetry, which is ilke an epitaph to the "I" that is lost in time and haunted by the very reality of death. However. Plath is fascinated with the idea of death to the extent that can be described as "conjuring with the unknown." Here is Plath in "Lady Lazarus":

1988-89 Yusuf Eradam won a British Council Scholarship to study TESOL to be able to train teachers and train teachers of English how to teach better and to design a course of methodology for Ankara University. The use and usage of international literature with visual material is indispensible in his design here.