“The title of Salman Rushdie’s famous essay, which later formed the title of a book of essays by him, ‘Imaginary Homelands’, is based on one side of a common and age-old perception of home: we make it in the mind or the imagination. Ordinary language has versions of it too: home is where the heart is, I don’t feel at home in my own town/country, this is my spiritual home, etc. On the other hand, there is a physical aspect to home too – ranging from walls associated with ancestral property or parents or some other such inheritance, and extended, through the imagining of communities, as Benedict Andersen would phrase it, sometimes to a land, a country, even a nation. To say that any one of these broad definitions of home is wrong is to cut off large sections of humankind: those who do not belong where they live or those who cannot return to where they used to live. To feel at home and to live at home are both valid cravings, and though they do not necessarily overlap, neither can be dismissed in favour of the other” Tabish Khair

Home in Western Language is a compilation of selected papers presented at the 7th BAKEA Symposium, 2021. In the time of the pandemic, when home has acquired more meanings, this book reads the idea of home and explores its connotations as presented in different genres and ages of English, American, French and literatures.

This book analyzes Peter Barnes’ plays, The Ruling Class (1968), Leonardo’s Last Supper (1969), Noonday Demons (1969), and Dreaming (1969), as examples of modern Menippean satire. In contrast to formal verse satire, that is defined as a rhetorical attack upon a particular vice and includes praise for its opposite virtue in the midst of an argument, Menippean satire is difficult to define because of its protean structure. Therefore, whilst defining Menippean satire it is helpful to ask what Menippean satire ‘does’ instead of what Menippean satire ‘is’. Menippean satire is a mingling of prose and poetry in its simplest sense. In addition, it always desires to reject any sort of absolutes regarding norms, cultural, religious or philosophical dogmas by creating a carnivalesque atmosphere. Because Barnes has written about similar themes in Menippean satire form throughout his career his plays may be considered as examples of modern Menippean satire.

Hatay, uzun bir tarihsel süreçte çok sayıda medeniyete ev sahipliği yapmış bir şehirdir. Bundan dolayı kültürel anlamda oldukça zengin bir birikime sahiptir. Bu birikim sonucunda topluma ait gelenek, görenek ve toplumsal uygulamaların da oldukça çeşitli ve fazla sayıda olduğu görülmektedir.

Prof. Dr. Bülent ARI tarafından kaleme alınmış olan “Hatay Halk Kültürü Üzerine Araştırmalar” kitabı, Hatay halk kültürüne ait unsurları ve şehrin kültürel birikimini titizlikle ele almıştır. Hatay’da doğum, evlenme ve ölüm gibi geçiş dönemlerine ait uygulamalar, gündelik yaşamdan kesitler; Hatay halk edebiyatına ait örnekler, Hatay’da ön plana çıkan el sanatları, bölgesel halk oyunlarına ait unsurlar, Hatay’daki geleneksel çocuk oyunları, bölgeye ait halk hekimliği uygulamaları, Hatay mutfağına ait yemekler ve yemek kültürü ile bölgede kullanılan lakapların derlendiği bilgilerden oluşan kültürel özelliklere bu kitapta yer verilmiştir.

Hatay halk kültürüne ait unsurların tanıtılması ve bu unsurların gelecek kuşaklara aktarılmasına katkı sağlayacak nitelikteki bu kitap; Hatay halk kültürüne ait yapılacak olan sonraki çalışmalara da kaynaklık edici ve yol gösterici bir mahiyete sahiptir.

In the perusal of the Irish literature, we see that the strength of this conservative instinct has been of the greatest service in the preservation of the early monuments in their purity. So much is this the case, that in many tales the most flagrant contradictions appear, the author or scribe being unwilling to depart at all from that which he found handed down. For instance, in the “Great Breach of Murthemney,” we find Laeg at one moment killed, and in the next riding black Shanglan off the field. From this conservatism and careful following of authority, and the littera scripta, or word once spoken, I conclude that the distance in time between the prose tale and the metrical originals was very great, and, unless under such exceptional circumstances as the revolution caused by the introduction of Christianity, could not have been brought about within hundreds of years. Moreover, this same conservatism would have caused the tales concerning heroes to grow very slowly once they were actually formed. All the noteworthy events of the hero’s life and his characteristics must have formed the original of the tales concerning him, which would have been composed during his life, or not long after his death.