| Teaching Staff
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Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Muhittin Şahin |
| Language of Instruction |
İngilizce (English) |
| Type Of Course |
Elective |
| Prerequisites |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
This course aims to introduce students to a selection of literary works, from the early 19th Century to the early 21st Century, across various cultural and linguistic boundaries. |
| Course Content |
Through close reading of a variety of texts, students will discuss these works in terms of their unique socio-cultural contexts, narratives and stylistic compositions, as well as their role as 'world literature'. In addition, students will apply these principles through creative practice when writing poetry, prose, or creative nonfiction. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
1. Students analyze how ideas are represented, interpreted, or valued in various expressions of human culture.
2. Students examine relevant primary source materials as understood by the discipline and interpret the material in writing assignments. |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Introduction to the discipline |
| 2. Week |
Origins of the discipline |
| 3. Week |
Literary terms and tools such as literariness, text, metaphor, image, symbol, fiction, author, reader, theme, plot |
| 4. Week |
Comparative literature in the world |
| 5. Week |
Comparative literary practice: poetry |
| 6. Week |
Comparative literary practice: poetry |
| 7. Week |
Comparative literary practice: narrative traditions |
| 8. Week |
Midterm |
| 9. Week |
Comparative literary practice: narrative traditions |
| 10. Week |
Modern and postmodern trends in comparative literature |
| 11. Week |
Modern and postmodern trends in comparative literature |
| 12. Week |
Modern and postmodern trends in comparative literature |
| 13. Week |
Conclusion: Comparative literature today |
| 14. Week |
Final |
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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 |
1. Bassnett, Susan. “How Comparative Literature Came into Being.” Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993. 12 –30.
2. Jost, Francois. “The meaning of World Literature.” Introduction to Comparative Literature. Indianapolis; New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974. 14 – 20. |
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| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
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