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Lesson Information

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

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course Teaching students the begining of English Literature in minute details
Course Content A brief cultural history of English Literature and literary works in written english, fundamental terms and techniques used while studying a literary text.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Overview of the Course.
2What is literature? The Definition, Meaning and Function of Literature and Its Relationship with Other Disciplines.
3Periods of English Literature
4The language of poetry, metaphorical language. An extract from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Mariana.
5The language of poetry, metaphorical language. An extract from W.B.Yeats' An Irısh Aırman Foresees his Death
6Poetic structures and themes
7Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet. William Wordsworth Upon Westminster Bridge and Shakespeare Sonnet 116.
8Poetry critical essays, analysis of Wifred Owen's Miners
9midterm
10Studying novels and short stories
11themes in the novel, an extract from James Joyce's Dubliners
12Structure of the novel, an extract from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
13Prose analysis, examples from Chinua Achebe's Things fall Apart.
14Revision

Resources

1-URGAN, M. (2012). İngiliz edebiyatı tarihi. İstanbul, Yapı Kredi yayınları.

2-SANDERS, A. (2006). The short Oxford history of English literature. Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press.

3-CARTER, R., & MCRAE, J. (1997). The Routledge history of literature in English Britain and Ireland. London, Routledge.