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| IDE6100 | Contemporary Literary Theory | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Mustafa Zeki ÇIRAKLI | | Co-Lecturer | none | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the major principles of
literary theory and to established methods of literary research. By the end of this
course, students will find themselves equipped with a variety of critical approaches
to literary and cultural texts. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the major principles of literary theory and to established methods of literary research. By the end of this course, students will find themselves equipped with a variety of critical approaches to literary and cultural texts. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | Classical Theory & Criticism I Barry, ?Theory before ?Theory??(handout)
Plato, Republic, Book X
Aristotle, Poetics, pp. 90-95 | | | Week 3 | Classical Theory & Criticism II Horace, Ars Poetica
Longinus, On Sublimity | | | Week 4 | The Sublime (vs. the Beautiful) Kant, Critique of the Power of
Judgment (Book II, pp. 430-40)
Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry (handout) | | | Week 5 | New Criticism & Reader-Response Theory
Ransom, Criticism, Inc.
Iser, The Act of Reading (handout) | | | Week 6 | Structuralism & Semiotics Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
Jakobson; Two Aspects of Language
| | | Week 7 | Post-structuralism I Nietzsche; On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense
Barthes; The Death of the Author and From Work to Text | | | Week 8 | Post-structuralism II Derrida, Plato?s Pharmacy (I) | | | Week 9 | Psychoanalysis I Freud; The Dream-Work & The Uncanny | | | Week 10 | Psychoanalysis II Lacan and The Mirror Stage
Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language | | | Week 11 | Post-modernism Lyotard; Defining the
Postmodern & Answering theQuestion: What is
Postmodernism? (handout)
Jameson, Postmodernism and Consumer Society | | | Week 12 | Marxism Marx, pp. 651-55
Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses | | | Week 13 | Feminism Gilbar & Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic
Cixous, ?The Laugh of Medusa? | | | Week 14 | Cultural Studies Foucault, The History of Sexuality (Chapter 2)
| | | Week 15 | Courtly Love or Woman as Thing | | | Week 16 | Individual Conference | | | |
| 1 | William E. Cain et al, ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (New Yorkand London: W. W. Norton, 2010) | | | 2 | Peter Barry, Beginning Theory (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009) | | | 3 | Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008) | | | 4 | Raman Selden et al., A Readers Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (London:Longman, 2005) | | | 5 | Atkins, Douglas. Contemporary Literary Theory | | | 6 | Habib, Rafey. A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, Fifth Edition | | | 7 | M. A. R. Habib,A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the Present [1 ed.] | | | 8 | Macherey, Pierre. A Theory of Literary Production | | | 9 | E. Dean KolbasCritical Theory and the Literary Canon | | | 10 | Terry EagletonCriticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory | | | |
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