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| ELL2006 | The 18th Century English Novel | 4+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE (%100 English) | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 4 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Nazan YILDIZ ÇİÇEKÇİ | | Co-Lecturer | Non | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to introduce the 18th Century novel within the social, historical and literary background of the 18th Century to enable the student to acquire knowledge and appreciation of the period and 18th Century novel through the study of some of the representative writers and novels within their social, cultural, literary and historical contexts. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | know the reasons for the rise of the novel. | 5 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | know about the Eighteenth-century English novelists. | 5 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | know the major novels of the Eighteenth-century. | 5 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | know the main narrative techniques used in the novels written in Eighteenth-century. | 5 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | evaluate the 18th century novel within the context of the rise of the novel genre. | 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 | 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 | | |
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It introduces the student to the 18th Century world emphasizing the novel as a new genre pursuant to social and cultural developments of the period through the study of exemplary texts. The course covers a historical, cultural and literary introduction to the 18th Century along with its major developments and changes such as the rise of the middle class and novel genre within the framework of the literary works. To this end, the course includes the main representatives of the 18th Century novel along with their monumental works: Aphra Behn, Horace Walpole, and Daniel Defoe. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction tot he Course | | | Week 2 | What is a Novel? | | | Week 3 | The Rise of the English Novel | | | Week 4 | Robisnon Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | | | Week 5 | Robisnon Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | | | Week 6 | Pamela by Samuel Richardson | | | Week 7 | Pamela by Samuel Richardson | | | Week 8 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 9 | Tome Jones by Henry Fielding | | | Week 10 | Tome Jones by Henry Fielding | | | Week 11 | Tome Jones by Henry Fielding | | | Week 12 | The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole | | | Week 13 | The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole | | | Week 14 | Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne | | | Week 15 | Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Eagleton, Terry, 2005; The English Novel: An Introduction, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. | | | 2 | Spacks, Patricia Meyer, 2006; Novel Beginning: Experiments in Eighteenth-century English Fiction, Yale University Press, New Haven. | | | |
| 1 | Poole, Adrian (Ed.), 2009; The Cambridge Introduction to English Novelists, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. | | | 2 | Bloom, Harold, 2007; Novelists and Novels, Chelsea House Publishers, Philadelphia. | | | 3 | Defoe, Daniel, 2004; Robinson Crusoe, Penguin, London. | | | 4 | Richardson, Samuel, 1981; Pamela, Penguin, London. | | | 5 | Fielding, Henry, 2005; The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, Penguin, London. | | | 6 | Walpole, Horace, 2001; The Castle of Otranto, Penguin, London. | | | 7 | Sertne, Laurence, 2003; The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, London. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 10 | 18/11/2025 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 10/01/2026 | 1,5 | 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 | 4 | 12 | 48 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Ödev | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Proje | 3 | 8 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 12 | 48 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 182 |
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