Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
ENLY1001	1	Literary Theory: Ancient to Modern	3/0/0	CC	English	9

Course Goals	This seminar will familiarize you with the major theoretical movements of the twentieth century. We will read and analyze the ‎key theoretical texts by paying attention to their characteristics and significance in their contexts. All students will come to class ‎having read all the texts and they will be assigned particular texts to present and discuss in class. Students will also be asked to ‎apply the theoretical positions to a visual or written text of their choice as part of their grades. ‎
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Special Requisite(s)	During classes all cameras and microphones must be open.‎
Instructor(s)	Professor Işıl Baş
Course Assistant(s)	---
Schedule	Thursday (13:00-16:00), 3C0305
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Teaching Methods and Techniques	Lecture, discussion
Principle Sources	Harland, Richard. Literary and Cultural Theory from Plato to Barthes. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. Belsey, Catherine. A Future for Criticism. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Course pack including selections from major theorists
Other Sources	Belsey, Catherine. A Future for Criticism. Chichester, West-Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	Introduction	Discussion, presentations
2. Week	Plato The Republic Books VII and X Aristotle Poetics Sections 1-2-3	Discussion, presentations
3. Week	Ferdinand de Saussure Course in General Linguistics Chapter 1 Roland Barthes Mythologies “Soap-powders and Detergent”, “Steak and Chips”, “The Brain of Einstein”, “Myth Today”	Discussion, presentations
4. Week	Friedrich Nietzsche “On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense” “The Birth of Tragedy from the spirit of Music” Jacques Derrida “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”	Discussion, presentations
5. Week	Michel Foucault History of Sexuality PART ONE We "Other Victorians" PART TWO The Repressive Hypothesis Chapter 1 The Incitement to Discourse Chapter 2 The Perverse Implantation PART THREE Scientia Sexualis Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison “Panopticism"	Discussion, presentations
6. Week	Sigmund Freud The Ego and the Id: Key Passages The Uncanny Beyond the Pleasure Principle Jacques Lacan “The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience” Jane Gallop “Lacan's ‘Mirror Stage’: Where to Begin”	Discussion, presentations
7. Week	Marx “Fetishism of Commodities”, “Estranged Labour” Louis Althusser “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”	Discussion, presentations
8. Week	Walter Benjamin-“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”	Discussion, presentations
9. Week	Project essay due	Discussion, presentations
10. Week	Edward Said Orientalism “Crisis in Orientalism” Homi Bhabha “Signs Taken for Wonders”	Discussion, presentations
11. Week	Frantz Fanon “The Negro and Psychopathology” Meyda Yegenoglu “Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalism”	Discussion, presentations
12. Week	Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship” Helene Cixous “Sorties” “The Laugh of Medusa”	Discussion, presentations
13. Week	Luce Irigaray This Sex Which is Not One “Chapter 2” Laura Mulvey “Visual Culture and Narrative Cinema”	Discussion, presentations
14. Week	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Epistemology of The Closet “Introduction: Axiomatic” Judith Butler Gender Trouble “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire”	Discussion, presentations
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Assessments
Evaluation tools	Quantity	Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations	1	40
Project(s)	1	20
Attendance	1	20
Final Exam	1	20

Program Outcomes PO-1 Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of literary texts, authors, genres and movements. PO-2 Display a thorough understanding of literary research methodology and different critical approaches to literature. PO-3 Analyze texts from different theoretical perspectives. PO-4 Develop a critical understanding of literature. PO-5 Know how to conduct independent research in English studies. PO-6 Articulate and share interpretation of texts and contexts in carefully constructed arguments. PO-7 Apply precise critical terminology in the presentation of analysis and research. PO-8 Engage in scholarly debates about their academic subjects. PO-9 Critically examine and use the latest research materials in their academic discipline. PO-10 Identify the ways both explicit and implicit cultural norms and assumptions affect perceptions and judgements. PO-11 Recognize the interdisciplinary aspects of English Studies and its complex relationship with other disciplines and forms of knowledge. PO-12 Develop a capacity to pursue academic studies at the doctoral level.

Learning Outcomes LO-1 Upon completion of this course, students will be able to trace the development of the concept of mimesis and representation from Classical times to the present LO-2 Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of major literary theories and their representatives LO-3 Place different theories in their historical and cultural setting LO-4 Engage in scholarly debates about the nature and function of literature LO-5 Grasp the interdisciplinary aspects of English Studies.

Course Assessment Matrix:

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