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| ELL3041 | Romanticism | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Tuncer YILMAZ | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of Romanticism?s philosophical, historical, and aesthetic foundations and to foster critical engagement with the literary output of its most influential English poets.
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| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | identify key characteristics and values of the Romantic movement. | 2,3,4 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | analyze Romanticism in contrast to Enlightenment ideals. | 5,15 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | interpret poems by major English Romantic poets within their historical and cultural contexts. | 3,4 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | critically evaluate Romantic literary themes such as nature, imagination, individualism, and the sublime. | 4,5 | 1, | | LO - 5 : | develop skills in literary analysis, historical contextualization, and comparative thinking. | 4 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course introduces students to the intellectual and literary movement of Romanticism, with a particular focus on its development in 18th- and 19th-century Europe. Through philosophical, historical, and literary perspectives, students will first explore the cultural forces that shaped Romanticism and its reaction against Enlightenment rationalism. The second half of the course is devoted to close readings of key English Romantic poets, analyzing their work in terms of literary form, aesthetic vision, and ideological stance. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction to Romanticism and the Enlightenment: Defining Romanticism; historical overview of Enlightenment rationalism and its impact. | | | Week 2 | Philosophical Foundations I: Reason vs. Imagination; Descartes, Rousseau, Kant on reason, subjectivity, nature. | | | Week 3 | Philosophical Foundations II: The Sublime and the Beautiful; Burke and Kant; emotion, aesthetics, nature. | | | Week 4 | French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, social change and its influence on literature. | | | Week 5 | Heroic couplet, decorum, order vs. natural feeling and spontaneity. | | | Week 6 | Lyric poetry, nature, self, the sublime, alienation. | | | Week 7 | Romanticism vs. Enlightenment ? A Comparative Seminar
| | | Week 8 | Student-led discussion; compare key themes, authors, and values. | | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 10 | William Blake: Visionary Poetics and Social Critique; Songs of Innocence and of Experience; symbols, dualism, prophetic voice. | | | Week 11 | William Wordsworth: Nature and the Common Man; Lines Composed... Tintern Abbey, Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Focus on memory, nature, and poetic self. | | | Week 12 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Imagination and the Supernatural; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan; secondary imagination and the uncanny. | | | Week 13 | John Keats: Beauty, Mortality, and the Romantic Ode; Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, negative capability. | | | Week 14 | Lord Byron: The Byronic Hero and Political Rebellion; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, selections from Don Juan; irony, exile, personal myth. | | | Week 15 | Final Synthesis: Romantic Legacies in Modern Literature | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Wu, Duncan, ed. Romanticism An Anthology. 3rd ed. Malden: Blackwell, 2006. | | | 2 | Curran, Stuart, ed. Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. | | | 3 | Ferber, M. 2010; Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford. | | | 4 | McGann, J. 2007; The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. | | | 5 | Berlin, I. 1999; The Roots of Romanticism, Princeton University Press, Princeton. | | | 6 | Wu, D. (ed.) 2012; Romanticism: An Anthology, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. | | | 7 | Blake, W. / Wordsworth, W. / Coleridge, S.T. / Byron, G.G. / Shelley, P.B. / Keats, J. (as found in Wu?s anthology or Penguin Classics editions) | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 4 | 24 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Proje | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 4 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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