Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : İST505 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : Second Cycle (Master's Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 3 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 3 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 5 |
To introduce biographical dictionaries of poets (tezkire), one of the fundamental sources of Turkish-Islamic Literature, in terms of their genre characteristics, historical development, and value as sources; to enable students to effectively and critically use these dictionaries when researching a poet's life and art by comprehending how to read the biographical information and literary evaluations provided, and how to compare them with other sources.
The concept and genre characteristics of the tezkire; the birth and development of the tezkire tradition; the classification and structure of tezkires; major tezkires of the 16th century and those of subsequent centuries; criteria for literary evaluation and criticism in tezkires; comparison of information in tezkires with other sources; applied tezkire research based on a selected poet.
| 1. | Explains the genre characteristics, structural elements (introduction, biographical construct), and the developmental process of poet tezkires (biographical dictionaries) in Turkish literary historiography. |
| 2. | Examines the tezkires written in the Anatolian field (especially 16th-century tezkires) in terms of their authors, content, and source value for literary history. |
| 3. | Analyzes the literary evaluation, stylistic, and criticism criteria used by tezkire authors regarding poets and poems within the context of the era's classical poetic understanding. |
| 4. | Evaluates the biographical information provided about poets in tezkires with a critical approach by comparing it with divans, encyclopedic works, and other historical sources. |
| 5. | Conducts a tezkire scan on the life and art of a selected divan poet, classifies the obtained data, and transforms it into an academic research text. |
| 1. | Âşık Çelebi. Meşâirü’ş-şuarâ [Biographical Dictionary of Poets]. Ed. Filiz Kılıç. Istanbul: Istanbul Research Institute. |
| 2. | Beyânî. Tezkiretü’ş-şuarâ [Biographical Dictionary of Poets]. Ed. İbrahim Kutluk. Ankara: Turkish Historical Society. |
| 3. | Bursalı Mehmed Tahir. Osmanlı Müellifleri [Ottoman Authors]. Istanbul: Meral Publishing House. |
| 4. | İpekten, Haluk. Türk Edebiyatının Kaynaklarından Türkçe Şuara Tezkireleri [Turkish Poets' Biographical Dictionaries as Sources of Turkish Literature]. Erzurum: Ministry of Culture and Tourism Publications. |
| 5. | İsen, Mustafa, et al. Şair Tezkireleri [Poets' Biographical Dictionaries]. Ankara: Grafiker Publications. |
| 6. | İsen, Mustafa. Tezkirelere Göre Divan Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü [Dictionary of Names in Divan Literature According to Tezkires]. Ankara: Akçağ Publications. |
| 7. | Kılıç, Filiz. "Edebiyat Tarihimizin Vazgeçilmez Kaynakları: Şair Tezkireleri" ["Indispensable Sources of Our Literary History: Poets' Biographical Dictionaries"]. Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi [Turkish Studies Literature Journal], Vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 543–564. |
| 8. | Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi. Tezkiretü’ş-şuarâ [Biographical Dictionary of Poets]. Ed. İbrahim Kutluk. Ankara: Turkish Historical Society. |
| 9. | Latîfî. Tezkiretü’ş-şuarâ ve Tabsıratü’n-nuzamâ [Biographical Dictionary of Poets and Insight for Versifiers]. Ed. Rıdvan Canım. Ankara: Atatürk Culture Center Publications. |
| 10. | Mehmed Süreyyâ. Sicill-i Osmânî [Ottoman National Biography]. Ed. Nuri Akbayar. Istanbul: History Foundation Yurt Publications. |
| 11. | Sehî Bey. Heşt Bihişt [Eight Heavens]. Ed. Mustafa İsen. Ankara: Akçağ Publications. |
| 12. | Şentürk, A. Atillâ and Kartal, Ahmet. Eski Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi [History of Old Turkish Literature]. Istanbul: Dergâh Publications. |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Attending Lectures | 1 | %5 |
| Assignment | 1 | %5 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %30 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %60 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 14 | 2 | 3 | 70 |
| Assignment | 3 | 5 | 1 | 18 |
| Presentation | 3 | 5 | 1 | 18 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 13 | 1 | 14 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 131 | |||
PÇ-1 | PÇ-2 | PÇ-3 | PÇ-4 | PÇ-5 | PÇ-6 | |
OÇ-1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
OÇ-2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
OÇ-3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
OÇ-4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
OÇ-5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 |