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Literary Criticism II

Course Code	: İDE430
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	: 4

Objectives of the Course

The course aims to enable students to learn modern and contemporary literary theories and to apply these theories to literary texts.

Course Content

An overview of modern and contemporary literary theories and their application to literary texts.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Lec. Baturay ERDAL

Learning Outcomes

1.	To be able to define both literary theory and literary criticism, and accumulate enough knowledge on the emergence and rise of these two fields as a discipline of study
2.	Learning how to use a dictionary effectively.
3.	Oral expression of the knowledge obtained during the study of the course.
4.	To be able to have a fifteen-or-twenty-minute oral presentation.
5.	Written expression of the knowledge obtained during the study of the course.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Charles Bressler: Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 1994. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999.
2.	Peter Barry: Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995.
3.	Mary Klages. Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Continuum, 2006.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Introduction to modern literary criticism

Week 2 - Theoretical

Russian Formalism and New Criticism

Week 3 - Theoretical

Reader Oriented Criticism

Week 4 - Theoretical

Modernity/Modernism

Week 5 - Theoretical

Postmodernism: Structuralism/Poststructuralism

Week 6 - Theoretical

Postmodernism: Structuralism/Poststructuralism

Week 7 - Theoretical

Psychoanalytic Criticism

Week 8 - Theoretical

Feminism

Week 9 - Theoretical

Marxism

Week 10 - Theoretical

New historicism and cultural materialism

Week 11 - Theoretical

Postcolonial criticism

Week 12 - Theoretical

Ecocriticism

Week 13 - Theoretical

Posthuman Theories

Week 14 - Theoretical

General Evaluation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%40
Final Examination	1	%60

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	4	2	84
Assignment	1	2	2	4
Midterm Examination	1	4	2	6
Final Examination	1	4	2	6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PÇ-1	PÇ-2	PÇ-3	PÇ-4	PÇ-5	PÇ-6	PÇ-7	PÇ-8	PÇ-9	PÇ-10	PÇ-11	PÇ-12
OÇ-1	4	4	4	5	5	5	3	3	3	4	4	4
OÇ-2	3	3	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4
OÇ-3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
OÇ-4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
OÇ-5	4	4	5	5	3	3	5	5	4	4	5	5

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