Lesson plan / SELECTIONS FROM WORLD LITERATURE-II

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 4.0
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 Programme Elective
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? S
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. ESMA TEZCAN
Instructor (s) Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D.) GAMZE SABANCI UZUN
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The aim of this course is to introduce students to range of works from world literature, and to compare and analyze those texts within their cultural and historical contexts.
Course Content A selection from twentieth-century World literature.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction
2Jewish American Literature and the Holocaust in Jewish American Literary Imagination
3Art Spiegelman. Maus: Book 1
4Art Spiegelman. Maus: Book 1
5Tadeusz Borowski. “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentelman”
6Watch “Life is Beautiful”
7Cynthia Ozick. The Shawl
8QUIZ
9MIDTERM
10Saul Bellow. Seize the Day
11Saul Bellow. Seize the Day
12Bernhard Schlink. The Reader
13Bernhard Schlink. The Reader
14Revision

Resources

1 - The Voltaire and Mann can be found in the Norton Anthology of World Materpieces, vol. 2, ed. Sarah N Lawall and Maynard Mack. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1999. All other materials are available in single text editions.