Classical texts are required to be read in order to establish a connection between mathnawis, novel, and short story in the process of development of Modern Turkish Literature. These kind of analysis and comparisons become crucial in our cultural atlas which is combining our past and future.
A. Atilla Şentürk, Osmanlı Şiiri Antolojisi, YKY Yay., İstanbul 1999
M.Kalpaklı, Osmanlı Divan Şiiri Üzerine Metinler, YKY. Yay. İstanbul 2000
Türk Dili Dergisi,Türk şiiri özel sayısı, TDK, Ankara 1986
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
The roots of Mathnawi as a genre, its historical progress, and types.
2. Week
The first examples from Arabic and Persian Literatures
3. Week
The first Mathnawi examples from Turkish Literatures
4. Week
Mewlana and Mathnawi
5. Week
Laila and Majnun in the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Literatures
6. Week
Detailed analysis of Laila and Majnun
7. Week
Şeyh Galip and Hüsn ü Aşak
8. Week
Midterm
9. Week
Battalname in the Turkish Literature
10. Week
Gazavatname in the Turkish Literature
11. Week
Novel and Short Story Tradition in the Turkish Literature
12. Week
Transition from mathnawi genre to novel
13. Week
Translation in the Turkish Literature and Novel Translations
14. Week
The first novels of the 19th century Turkish Lİterature
15. Week
Final
16. Week
Final
17. Week
Final
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
20
Final Exam
1
50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Students are able to discuss texts of the Turkish Language and Literature from the oldest period until today from literary and philological aspects. Students are able to make textual analysis through comparison with texts of western literature.
PO-2
Students are able to use at expert level course materials, research methods, knowledge and theories that are used in the Turkish Language and Literature Program, and includes up-to-date information.
PO-3
Students are able to use the knowledge and theoretical information they have gained in the Turkish Language and Literature Program in the fields of education, research and public service, and systematically communicate it to groups in unrelated fields.
PO-4
Students are able to come up with solutions through individual effort for problems they encounter in the field, manage advanced level studies independently, and take responsibility as members of a work group.
PO-5
Students are able to analyze problems relating to the Turkish Language and Literature Program, support likely solutions with tangible data, and share the data with experts in the related field.
PO-6
Students are able to collect, analyze and interpret institutional and applied information concerning their fields by using at least one foreign language.
PO-7
Students are able to debate modern and classical literary information and theories within the framework of certain currents and theories, and apply the qualifications they have acquired to inter-disciplinary studies.
PO-8
Students obtain the awareness for the necessity of lifelong learning.
PO-9
Students are able to acquire fundamental knowledge and skills required to do academic research and studies at graduate level in the field of the Turkish Language and Literature.
PO-10
Students are able to observe professional responsibility and ethic values in the field of the Turkish Language and Literature.
PO-11
Students are able to follow historical alphabets of the Turkish language from authentic texts.
PO-12
Students are able to interpret the development of literary genres and forms within the historical process, and broaden their expertise.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
The students identify mathnawi genre and interpret examples.
LO-2
The students know the place of mathnawi in the Turkish Literature tradition and interpret it.
LO-3
The students know the place of novel genre in our literature and analyze it.
LO-4
The students compare and analyze the first examples of mathnawi and novel
LO-5
The students discuss and interpret the relation between Classical and Modern Era of the Turkish Literature.
