be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the principal features of literary romanticism, and of the historical contexts from which they emerge and to which they respond;
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
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Instructor(s)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Özlem Gülgün Güner
Course Assistant(s)
None
Schedule
Monday, 12:00-15:00, ZA 2
Office Hour(s)
Tuesday, 12:00-13:00
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture, discussion, groupwork and project work
Principle Sources
Duncan Wu, Romanticism: An Anthology, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005)
Other Sources
Duncan Wu, A Companion to Romanticism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction: The Age of Crisis
• Socio-historical considerations
• Contrasts with Neoclassicism and the concerns of the Enlightenment
• Imagination
• Nature
• Symbolism and Myth
• The mundane and the exotic
• Individualism: the Romantic Hero and the Self
• The Romantic artist
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
2. Week
Terrors and Consolations of the Sublime
• Excerpts from Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
• William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
3. Week
At the Heart of Crisis: Colonialism and Political Instability
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
• Anna Letitia Barbauld, “Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem”
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
4. Week
Revolution at home and abroad –Political Violence
• William Wordsworth, “Protest Against the Ballot”
• William Blake, “London”, “The Chimney Sweeper”
• Percy B. Shelley, "Sonnet: England in 1819", "Song to the Men of England"
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
5. Week
Heroes and Anti-Heroes:
• Lord Byron, “Manfred”, excerpts.
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
6. Week
Slavery and the Rights of Man: Thomas Paine and Slave Narratives
• Thomas Paine, “Rights of Man”, excerpts.
• William Blake, “The Little Black Boy”
• William Wordsworth “To Toussaint L'Ouverture”
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
7. Week
The Infernal City: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
8. Week
Midterm Exam Week
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9. Week
William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802”, “Lines Written in Early Spring”, “The World is Too Much with Us”
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight”
• John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
10. Week
Healing Nature: William Wordsworth
• William Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps up”, “It is a Beauteous Evening”, “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “The Tables Turned”
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
11. Week
Science and Technology: Luddites and Frankenstein
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
12. Week
Romantic Religion and the Problem of Evil
• William Blake, “All Religions Are One”, “There is no Natural Religion”, from Songs of Innocence, “Introduction”, “The Lamb”, “The Chimney Sweeper”, “The Divine Image”, “The Tyger”
• John Keats, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
13. Week
The Imagination: S. T. Coleridge
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from “A Preface to Lyrical Ballads”, “Kubla Khan”
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
14. Week
Revision
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
15. Week
Conclusion: the crisis and the consolation of the word
Lectures, discussion, groupwork
16. Week
Final Exams Week
17. Week
Final Exams Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Quizzes
1
10
Attendance
1
20
Final Exam
1
40
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
be familiar with the work of a range of writers and texts from and/or in Britain in the Romantic period;
LO-2
be able to analyse and discuss individual texts with a sensitivity to Romantic concerns about language and literary practice;
LO-3
be able to recall, define and apply key terms and concepts relating to British and European literature and culture of the Romantic age;
LO-4
have begun to develop their own ideas regarding Romanticism and the various issues and themes explored on the course.
LO-5
be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the principal features of literary romanticism, and of the historical contexts from which they emerge and to which they respond;
