The aim of this course is to develop a critical awareness of modern world literature by examining key authors and canonical literary works of the period.
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
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Instructor(s)
Assist. Prof. Dr. İpek Kotan Yiğit
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Monday, 10:00 - 13:00
5C1113
Office Hour(s)
Thursday 13:00 - 15:00
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
Principle Sources
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Other Sources
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction to the course – opening remarks, announcements to the students
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
2. Week
Modernist Manifestos. T.E. Hulme, from “Romanticism and Classicism” • F. S. Flint, “Imagisme” • Ezra Pound, “A
Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” • Blast, “Long Live the Vortex!” • Mina Loy, “Feminist Manifesto”.
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
3. Week
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) [Chapters 1 – 10]
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
4. Week
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (cont.) [Chapters 10 through the end]
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
5. Week
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) [I – III]
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
6. Week
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (cont.) [IV through the end]
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
7. Week
Continued
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
8. Week
Midterms
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9. Week
W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”, “Easter, 1916”, “The Second Coming”
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
10. Week
T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” (1922)
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
11. Week
T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” (1922) (cont.)
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
12. Week
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
13. Week
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (cont.)
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
14. Week
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (cont.)
Lectures, discussion, critical reading
15. Week
Review
essay writing
16. Week
Final Exams Week
essay writing
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
45
Quizzes
1
5
Final Exam
1
50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Show knowledge of a substantial range of authors, movements and texts from different periods of literary history.
PO-2
Identify the intellectual, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature
is written and read.
PO-3
Employ the necessary skills in the reading, analysis and in appreciation of literature.
PO-4
Recognize, interpret, and comment on rhetorical and figurative language.
PO-5
Identify, distinguish between and assess the distinctive characteristics of texts written in the principle literary genres.
PO-6
Recall and define key terms and concepts relating to language, literature and/or culture.
PO-7
Recognize the role of different social and cultural contexts in affecting meaning.
PO-8
Demonstrate responsiveness to the central role of language in the creation of meaning.
PO-9
Recognize different structures and discourse functions of the English language.
PO-10
Display competence both in written and/or oral expression and in the
communication of ideas in a variety of contexts.
PO-11
Demonstrate critical skills in the close reading, description, interpretation,
and analysis of literary and non-literary texts.
PO-12
Use logical thought, critical reasoning, and rhetorical skills to effectively
construct arguments.
PO-13
Apply guided research skills including the ability to gather, sift, organize and
present information and material.
PO-14
Show competence in planning, preparation and revision of essays,
presentations, and other written and project work.
PO-15
Reflect on ethical and philosophical issues raised in literary, critical, and
cultural texts.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
demonstrate knowledge both of the range of literary and artistic movements associated with international modernism and the avant-garde (such as symbolism, expressionism, Dada and surrealism), and of a representative selection of modernist literary works;
LO-2
LO 2. situate and analyse these works in relation to the broader intellectual, cultural and socio-historical contexts from which they emerged, in particular the two world wars;
LO-3
LO 3. demonstrate an understanding of the problems of modernity and the range of responses these provoked from modernist poets, dramatists and writers of fiction;
LO-4
LO 4. deploy a critical vocabulary for describing, distinguishing and evaluating modernist works of literature;
LO-5
LO 5. offer close readings of modernist texts, paying particular attention to their distinctive use of language;
LO-6
LO 6. develop an increased understanding of the primacy of language in literary production.
