| Teaching Staff
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MEHMET DEMİR |
| Language of Instruction |
İngilizce (English) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
- |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
- |
| Course Objectives |
After completing this course, students will:
• have sufficient information about the characteristics of a literary text.
• be able to distinguish dramatic texts and poems from other texts
• be familiar with the elements of drama and poetry
• be able interpret and anayze drama and poetry
• be familiar with some literary translation theories.
• Be able to compare and contrast the English texts and their Turkish translations
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| Course Content |
This course includes some background information about literature, drama and poetry and literary translation. After theoretical introduction students will read, interpret and analyze some English works of drama and poetry. Finally they will compare and contrast the Turkish translations of these texts. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
After completing this course, students will be able to:
• analyze and evaluate the elements of literature in dramatic texts andpoetry
• identify some literary elements such as plot, character, setting, irony, literary language etc.
• read and critically evaluate dramatic texts and poems
• compare and contrast the translated versions of dramatic texts and poems
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| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE |
| 2. Week |
WHAT IS LITERATURE |
| 3. Week |
WHAT IS DRAMA |
| 4. Week |
WHAT IS TRAGEDY |
| 5. Week |
HAMLET |
| 6. Week |
HAMLET |
| 7. Week |
HAMLET |
| 8. Week |
MIDTERM |
| 9. Week |
Poetry and How to Analyze Poetry |
| 10. Week |
Poetry and How to Analyze Poetry |
| 11. Week |
Emily Dickinson "Because I couldn't Stop For Death" |
| 12. Week |
Paul Laurance Dunbar "We Wear the Mask" |
| 13. Week |
Maya Angelou "Still I Rise" |
| 14. Week |
Wrap Up |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
40 |
| Quizes (%) |
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| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
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| Practice (%) |
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| Labs (%) |
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| Projects/Field Work (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
60 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
Literary Genres: Fowler, Wellek&Warren, Fishelov
Tragedy: Aristotle’s Poetics, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Harold Bloom), Hamlet (W. Shakespeare),
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
Stopping By the Woods by Robert Frost
Dulce Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen |
| Work Placement(s) |
- |
| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
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