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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
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Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course To introduce students to ways of reading English novels and various contexts for studying them. To familiarise students with strategies for engaging with fictional texts formally as well as historically, by situating the novels studied in their distinctive cultural environments while also allowing students to understand ways in which novelistic form and technique have changed over time. To provide students with critical tools for investigating how the novel translates into media other than print, including film adaptations and graphic novels.
Course Content Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Horace Walpole, Jane Austen

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction to Course Overview of the Beginning of English Novel AR: Ian Watt- The Rise of The Novel: Chapter 1 Realism and the Novel Form & Chapter 2 The Reading Public and the Rise of Novel
2The Eighteenth Century & The Rise of the English Novel Daniel Defoe -Robinson Crusoe (1719) AR: Ian Watt - Chapter 3: Robinson Crusoe, Individualism and the Novel
3Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (1719) (continued) AR: Ian Watt - The Rise of The Novel: Myths of Modern Individualism pp. 141-171
4Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (1719) (continued)
5A Novel of Satire Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (1726)
6Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (1726)
7Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (1726)
8MIDTERM
9EID
10The English Novel as a Gothic Genre Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto (1764)
11Horace Walpole -The Castle of Otranto (1764)
12LABOUR DAY
13The English Novel in Transition: From Age of Sensibility to Realism Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
14Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813) (continued)

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