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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 Assist. Prof. Dr. İLKİN BAŞAR
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course This course aims to improve students' skills in the analysis of selected literary texts and in critical reading and thinking
Course Content A selection from literary texts of the genres, namely poetry, drama and fiction, will be handled. They also study literary terms and literary theories

Weekly Course Subjects

1the nineteenth century:1832-1900
2Studying a novel or short story, Victorian novel
3the twentieth century:1900-1945, modernism and the novel
4themes in the novels and short stories; examples from Elizabeth Gaskell's North&South, James Joyce's Dubliners, Jane Austin's Emma
5themes in the novels and short stories; examples from Elizabeth Gaskell's North&South, James Joyce's Dubliners, Jane Austin's Emma
6the twentieth century: 1945 to 2000, Orwell
7QUIZ
8MIDTERM
9Critical essays, examples from Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son and Virgina Woolf's To the Lighthouse
10Studying a play, themes of plays
11Studying the themes of plays, examples from Shakespeare's plays A midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth
12Studying play structures, examples from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
13Analysing poems, extracts from Shakespeare's play A midsummer Night's Dream and Robert Bolt's A Man for all seasons.
14General Revision

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.