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Article ESCAPING AND WITHSTANDING THE REALITY THROUGH ART IN EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL’S STATION ELEVEN(2020) Maviş, Yunus; Maviş, YunusHaving been an ever-present part of Western culture, end of time speculations, namely apocalypse scenarios, are largely originated in biblical ending scenarios and have always appealed to and intrigued the scholars in a wide range of fields, including the literati. These apocalypse and post-apocalypse scenarios have found a dominating place in literature as part of ecocriticism, which in general terms, puts nature and the themes focusing on ecology in the focal point. Covering dystopian, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic narratives as genres, ecocriticism includes a broad range of literary and artistic studies and critical theories that emphasize nature and environment relevant problems. Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) is a distinctive example for dystopian and post-apocalyptic narratives describing the beginning of a global epidemic, Georgia Flu, and life twenty years after the catastrophe, because it both tries to explore man’s potential to create and sustain meaning through art, story and sharing in an ambitious and versatile way, and scrutinizes whether the ethical and cultural values still exist in a post-apocalyptic world, and the likely ways people live together, which is of the set of ideas suggested by post-apocalyptic literature. In this study, we argue that in Station Eleven (2014), Emily St. John Mandel considers art as an intrinsic need for humanity and the real survivor even after a probable apocalypse, and becomes a source of endurance against harsh realities of life, functioning like a home that shelters humans to which they escape.Article Survival in Jack London's The Call of The Wild and White Fang(2022) Maviş, Yunus; Maviş, YunusMan’s anthropocentric perspective towards nature, which paves way to the destruction of species and natural resoruces in the last instance, stands out as a great drawback for the correction such of contemporary environmental situations. Authored by Jack London during his Klondike Gold Rush adventure, The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906), for example, can be counted among the works of eco-criticism that mirrors and criticizes man’s egocentric attitude towards nature and puts the usage of dogs as sled dogs and transitioning their nature by force during the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) into the focal point of the criticism. In his The Call of the Wild (1903), London tries to show us, through the story of the central character Buck, how heartless and disrespectful can man become towards nature when he acts self centeredly. By reflecting the role of environmental factors in easing or aggravating the survival of Buck, and portraying how Buck is forcibly transitioned to a primitive beast from a domestic pet by men, London both criticizes this kind of a touch of men to nature, and implies his inclination towards naturalism in the works mentioned above. In his White Fang (1906), London tells the story of a wild dog, White Fang that has to adapt to the domestic environment to survive. This study aims to analyse Jack London’s The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) in terms of survival examples.