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| ELL3041 | Romanticism | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First 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 - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Tuncer YILMAZ | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Understand the major developments and major figures in British literary history from the
last few decades of the eighteenth century through the 1830s;
? Understand the mutual relationship between historical and cultural context and literary
form and production, specifically the effect of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution,
and debates about slavery, human rights, and women?s rights;
? Understand the role of developing theories of perception, cognition, and the human mind
in shaping literary form and content;
? Engage in critical discussions of language and literature;
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| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of Romantic literature. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,13,14,15,17,19,21,22 | 1,3 | | LO - 2 : | Students will increase their skills in close reading and literary interpretation. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,13,14,15,17,19,21,22 | 1,3 | | LO - 3 : | Students will increase their understanding of literary history, and how English Romanticism interacts with earlier poetry and ideas. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,13,14,15,17,19,21,22 | 1,3 | | 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), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| The political, social, philosophical and cultural changes at the end of the eighteenth century coincided with and/or
brought about changes in literary forms and values. Our examination of Romanticism in Britain
will focus on significant historical, cultural and literary trends that combine to produce multiple
and competing ?Romanticisms.? |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction into English Romanticism. Periodization, formative experiences for Romantic Poetry. | | | Week 2 | William Blake - selections from Songs of Innocence and Experience | | | Week 3 | Blake continued ? ?The Marriage of Heaven and Hell? | | | Week 4 | William Wordsworth ? excerpts from the 1800 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, a selection of poems from Lyrical Ballads
| | | Week 5 | Wordsworth continued: a selection of poems from Poems in Two Volumes | | | Week 6 | Wordsworth continued ? The Prelude (chosen chapters) | | | Week 7 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge ? selections from Biographia Literaria | | | Week 8 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 9 | Coleridge continued ? ?The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?, ?Dejection: an Ode? | | | Week 10 | George Gordon Byron ? excerpts from Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage | | | Week 11 | Byron continued ? ?Prometheus?, ?Fare Thee Well? | | | Week 12 | Percy Bysshe Shelley ? ?Ozymandias?, ?Ode to the West Wind? | | | Week 13 | Shelley continued ? ?To a Skylark?, excerpts from ?A Defence
of Poetry?, Preface to ?Prometheus Unbound?
| | | Week 14 | John Keats: ?To Autumn?, ?La Belle Dame Sans Merci? | | | Week 15 | Keats continued - ?Ode to a Nightingale?, ?Ode on a Grecian Urn? | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Wu, Duncan, ed. Romanticism An Anthology. 3rd ed. Malden: Blackwell, 2006. | | | 2 | Curran, Stuart, ed. Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 08/11/2016 | 1 | 20 | | Project | 12 | 06/12/2016 | 4 | 30 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 10/01/2017 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 4 | 24 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 4 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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