Abstract: The Idea Of "Slavism" In Russian Literature Emine iNANIR Russian literary historians accepted that the idea of "Slavism" was firstly suggested in 'Passed Mears' Story, which was written by Kiev-Pechorsk monastery priest Nestor. Until the sixteenth century Eastern and Southern Slavians had shared the same autography and literature. It is mentioned that during the Middle Ages Slavians owned a common art of icon and music. Besides they had joined church rites and works of literature. As the Ottoman empire grazed to browse over the Balkans, Slavic people broke off and they adopted new. more introvert cultural lives. The work "Hronograph" (1512) specifies that Russians' loneliness has brought some complicated problems however that loneliness gives them the oppurtunity to obtain their cultural improvement with their own possibilities and experiences. Although Russian intellectuals hadn't been able to put new forms of "Slavism" idea in the eigteenth century, the creative strength Russian literature has supplied Slavians the oppurtunity to be recognized in Europe.

Abstract: The Dissolution Of Value And Meaning In John Barth's The Floating Opera Hasine SEN John Barth's first novel The Floating Opera (1956) is an account of the desperate attempts of the protagonist Todd Andrews to find a sensible design for his life experience by establishing links between related events and his subsequent realization of the fact that reason is inadequate in coping with the drama of human existence due to the failure of absolute values in asserting definite truths. The struggle of the character to achieve rational standards thus ends with the manifestation of the idea of the essential randomness of the universe, the arbitrariness and relativity of values and the multiplicity of meaning. The Floatillg Opera definitely lacks the high experimentalism of Barth's subsequent novels but it is the theme of the repudiation of stable points of reference which defines Barth as a truly postmodern writer still in the threshold of his literary experience.

Abstract: Crime, Detection, And The Restoration Of Order: A Study In Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone Arpinc MIZIKYAN According to T. S. Eliot the detective genre was "invented by Collins" and The Moonstone is "the first, longest and best of English detective .novels." The Moonstone involves a crime at the very heart of the story and this crime is committed in an upper-middle-class family house. The narrative focus is put on the gem which gives the novel its title. Thus, the Moonstone is the pivot around which the whole narrative evolves. Since the inherent purpose of the detective novel is to reassert the prevalence of order within the society, at the end of The Moonstone the case is solved and the order is reinstalled.

Abstract: E.L. Doctorow's The Book Of Daniel: Towards A Postmodern Conception Of Justice Oya BERK E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel is a fictional account of the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the early 1950s. Doctorow examines their case in multiple contexts - during the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era, in the context of the New Left radicalism in the late 1960s and lastly in the larger context of the biblical story of the prophet Daniel and his struggle with exile and persecution. Throughout the book, Doctorow employs deconstructive devices which undermine the unity and consistency of the text. The fractured and disjointed narrative which resists completion and which seems to lead nowhere is aptly associated with Doctorow's conception of justice which denotes absence rather than presence and which has strong affinities with the postmodern stance towards justice, especially with Derrida's reading of it in "Force of Law". Like the postmodern conception of justice which is allied with differance, deferral and impossibility, justice for the Rosenbergs is forever deferred to the future, never to be realized in the present.