Information Package / Course Catalogue
Outlines of English Literature II
Course Code: İDE118
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: English
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

This course examines the course of the developments in English Literature from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century in regard to selected texts from representative authors of that age. Major literary movements and general features of them are introduced.

Course Content

Outlines of English Literature from Romantic Period to Postmodernism

Name of Lecturer(s)
Lec. Baturay ERDAL
Learning Outcomes
1.At the end of this course the students will be able to appreciate English literature in view of historical, cultural and literary developments from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
2.The development of literature and literary genres will be examined and selected literary works analyzed in the light of those developments.
3.They learn different periods and writers
4.They'll have possibility of reading different works
5. Their critical reading develops
6.They can adapt other courses easily
Recommended or Required Reading
1.English Literature, Anthony Burgess, Longman, 1971
2.An Introductory Guide to English Literature, Martin Stephen, Longman York Press, 1986
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Pre-romantics: T. Gray, R. Burns, W. Blake.
Week 2 - Theoretical
1. and 2. generation romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats.
Week 3 - Theoretical
Victorian period: Bronte kardeşler, C. Dickens, W. M. Thackeray
Week 4 - Theoretical
G. Eliot, T. Hardy, R. L. Stevenson, R. Kipling
Week 5 - Theoretical
A. Tennyson, M. Arnold, R. Browning.
Week 6 - Theoretical
C.Rossetti, B. Shaw, O.Wilde
Week 7 - Theoretical
An outlook of twentieth century
Week 8 - Theoretical
J. Conrad, E.M. Forster, K. Mansfield,D.H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats.
Week 9 - Theoretical
War poets: R. Brooke, S. Sassoon, W. Owen.
Week 10 - Theoretical
Modernism and modernist movements.
Week 11 - Theoretical
T.S. Eliot, J. Joyce, V. Woolf.
Week 12 - Theoretical
A. Huxley, G. Orwell, W. Golding,
Week 13 - Theoretical
J. Osborne, H. Pinter, S. Beckett.
Week 14 - Theoretical
W.H. Auden, P. Larkin, D. Thomas, I. Murdoch, D. Lessing, C. A. Duffy
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142256
Assignment1123
Midterm Examination1628
Final Examination1628
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)75
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026