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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
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
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D.) MURAT LÜLECİ
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course To comprehend the place of modern Turkish literature in the history of modernization.
Course Content Starting from the pre-Tanzimat period, literary texts written in Turkish language constitute the course content.

Weekly Course Subjects

1General Overview of the course
2Modern Turkish Literature and the Epistemology of the "modern"
3The Renewed Symbols of Classical Turkish Literature
4A Comparison of Mentality in the Way of Modernization
5Gülhane-i Hatt-ı Hümayun (Edict of Gülhane)
6Epistemological Foundations of Tanzimat Novel
7Servet-i Fünun Novel in the Context of Shifting Mentalities and Aşk-ı Memnu
8Comparative Reading of 2 Novels: A Mind at Peace and The Novel of an Hesitation
9Midterm
10Aesthetics of Modern Fiction and A Novel of an Unrest: Tanpınar and A Mind at Peace
11Postmernities in Turkish Fiction, Oğuz Atay and The Disconnected
12From Sufism to Philosophical Novel: İhsan Oktay Anar and Suskunlar
13Typologies of the Intelligansia and Women in Turkish Literature: Nuray Hanım and Müfide Ferid
14Overview of Modern Turkish Fiction

Resources

1- Ahmet H. Tanpınar, 19. Asır Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi, İstanbul, Çağlayan Kitabevi, 2001.

2- M. Kayahan Özgül, Divan Yolundan Peraya Selametle: Modern Türk Şiirine Doğru. İstanbul: Hece Yayınları, 2006.

3- Mehmet Kaplan, Modern Türk Edebiyatı Üzerine Araştırmalar-I, İstanbul, Dergâh Yayınları, 1976.