The goal of the course is to familiarise students with the wide variety of poetic practice and movements in English in the twentieth century.
Prerequisite(s)
None Yok
Corequisite(s)
None Yok
Special Requisite(s)
None Yok
Instructor(s)
Lecturer Dr. ipek Kotan Yiğit
Course Assistant(s)
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Schedule
Tuesday, 10:00-13:00, 3C 8 10
Office Hour(s)
Monday, 11:00-12:00
Teaching Methods and Techniques
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Lecture, discussion, group work
Principle Sources
Keith Tuma (ed.) Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (OUP, 2001)
Michael Schmidt (ed.), The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (London, 2000)
Other Sources
Jon Cook (ed), Poetry in Theory (Blackwell, 2004)
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction: Contexts
Lectures, class discussion, group work
2. Week
Modern, Modernity, Modernism
Principal concepts, perspectives, and voices
Lectures, class discussion, group work
3. Week
Symbolism, Yeats, “The Symbolism of Poetry”, Mallarme, from “Crisis in Poetry”, “Herodiade”
Lectures, class discussion, group work
4. Week
Imagism, Pound, “A Retrospect”, “A Few Don’ts”, H. D., “The Pool”, “Sea Rose”, Mina Loy, “Parturition”
Lectures, class discussion, group work
5. Week
Pound, “Leviora”, “Statement of Being”, Eliot, “The Waste Land: The Burial of the Dead”
Lectures, class discussion, group work
6. Week
W. C. Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “This is Just to Say”, Wallace Stevens, “The Emperor of Ice Cream”, “The Snow Man
Lectures, class discussion, group work
7. Week
Revision
Lectures, class discussion, group work
8. Week
Midterm Week
Lectures, class discussion, group work
9. Week
Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, “”Let America Be America Again”, “The Weary Blues”, Countee Cullen, “For a Lady I Know”,
“Indecent”, Claude McCay, “After the Winter”, “Harlem Shadows”
Lectures, class discussion, group work
10. Week
Beat Poetry, Allen Ginsberg, “In the Baggage Room at Greyhound”, “Please Master”, Gregory Corso, “Birthplace Revisited”, “I am 25”
Lectures, class discussion, group work
11. Week
Plihilp Larkin, “Deceptions”, “Churchgoing”, Elizabeth Jennings, “A Chorus”, “Accepted”,Thom Gunn, “”The Hug”, “My Sad
Captains”
Lectures, class discussion, group work
12. Week
J. H. Prynne, “How It’s Done”, “Living in History”, Denise Riley, “Lone Star Clattering”, “A Misremembered Lyric”
Lectures, class discussion, group work
13. Week
Les Murray, “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow”, Grace Nichols, “The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping”, Jackie Kay, “Out of the
Clyde”
Lectures, class discussion, group work
14. Week
Revision
Lectures, class discussion, group work
15. Week
Final exams week
16. Week
Final exams week
17. Week
Final exams week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
3
80
Attendance
1
20
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
LO 1. show a broad knowledge and understanding of the range of twentieth-century Anglophone poetry, and of the principal movements, debates, and poets;
LO-2
LO 2. identify and discuss the intellectual, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which modern poetry has been written and read, and situate individual works within these contexts;
LO-3
LO 3. demonstrate a sensitivity to the language and poetic devices employed by contemporary poets, through close reading, description, interpretation, and analysis;
LO-4
LO 4. understand and deploy key terms and concepts relating to contemporary poetic practice and theory;
LO-5
LO 5 engage with a number of contemporary poems, developing personal, critical responses.
