Lesson plan / COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 4.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Programme Elective
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? S
Course Coordinator Prof. Dr. KAZİM YETİŞ
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The main aim of the course is to encourage students to make comparative studies on at least two writers.
Course Content Analize and discuss different literatures and their interrelations. Comparative literature and literary translation. Comparative literature and literary movement.

Weekly Course Subjects

1An introduction to comparative literary study.
2Development of comparative literature in Europe, USA and Turkey.
3Theories of Comparative Literature. The schools of comparative literature (French School and American School)
4Methods of Comparative Literature
5The theme, image, motif and type in comparative literature
6Textual Analysis: "Leyla and Mecnun" by Fuzuli and "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
7Textual Analysis: Analysis of "Utopia" from Thomas More and novel "The Cassandra Seal" from Chingiz Aitmatov
8Textual Analysis: "Yaprak Dökümü" by Reşat Nuri Güntekin and "Le Père Goriot " by Balzac.
9Midterm
10Literary translation and comparative literature
11Literary translation and comparative literature
12Literary movements and comparative literature
13Textual Analysis: "The Path of Abay" by Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov and "Safahat" by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
14Textual Analysis

Resources

Aktaş, Şerif (1984), Roman Sanatı ve Roman İncelemesine Giriş, Birlik yayınları, Ankara.
Aktaş, Şerif (1986), Edebiyatta Üslup ve Problemleri. Akçağ Yayınları, Ankara.
Aytaç, Gürsel (1997), Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bilimi, Ankara, Gündoğan.
Aydın, Kamil (1999), Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat: Günümüz Postmodern Bağlamda Algılanışı, İstanbul, Birey Yayınları.
Enginün, İnci (1990), Mukayeseli Edebiyat, İstanbul, Dergâh Yayınları.
Kefeli, Emel (2000), Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat İncelemeleri, Kitabevi, İstanbul.