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| ELL4042 | Readings in Post Modern British and American Literature | 4+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | 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 | Prof. Dr. Mustafa Zeki ÇIRAKLI | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to help students analyze postmodern fiction by engaging with concepts like metafiction, intertextuality, and narrative fragmentation. It fosters critical thinking, interpretive depth, and academic writing skills, encouraging students to approach literary texts with a layered understanding. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Students will develop skills to identify and interpret postmodern techniques such as metafiction, fragmentation, and narrative instability. They will learn to analyze how these elements challenge conventional storytelling and reshape reader engagement. | | | | LO - 2 : | Students will enhance their ability to identify and distinguish narrative elements, textual manipulations, and philosophical undercurrents. | | | | LO - 3 : | Students will compare narrative strategies across conventional storytelling, modernist, and postmodernist works. They will increase their awareness of form, genre, and ideology. | | | | LO - 4 : | Students will develop their critical skills and theoretical perspectives to recognise intertextual references. | | | | 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 examines postmodern narrative techniques through close readings of selected post-modern texts. Students will explore themes such as identity, language, time, and authorship while developing critical reading and interpretive skills.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Starting lesson,aim of the lesson, giving information about the content of lesson | | | Week 2 | The novel?s opening is examined through the lens of Victorian narrative and postmodern deconstruction. Character introductions and the intrusive narrator are analyzed for metafictional significance. | | | Week 3 | The Charles?Sarah dynamic is explored through themes of love, freedom, and moral individualism. Class divisions and social roles are examined in depth. | | | Week 4 | Narrative structure and temporal shifts are analyzed alongside authorial intrusions, exploring aesthetic of possibilities and the concept of multiple endings. | | | Week 5 | The tension between history, fiction, and ?realism? is questioned through the framework of postmodern historiography. Historical discourse is critically deconstructed. | | | Week 6 | Sarah is re-evaluated in terms of gender roles, female subjectivity, and feminist critique, highlighting her resistance to patriarchal structures. | | | Week 7 | Postmodern traits such as pastiche, irony, parody, and narrative play are identified and exemplified throughout the text. | | | Week 8 | The novel?s multiple endings, reader involvement, and narrative ambiguity are analyzed to reveal its interactive textuality. | | | Week 9 | Mid-term Exam | | | Week 10 | Intertextuality and postmodern adaptation are discussed via the film version of The French Lieutenant?s Woman. | | | Week 11 | The novel?s opening is examined through connections between detective fiction structure and the theme of fragmented identity. | | | Week 12 | Auster?s narrative strategies are discussed through nested identities of narrator, author, and character, as well as intertextual references. | | | Week 13 | Space, alienation, and the city as metaphor are unpacked within the framework of postmodern narrative and urban dislocation. | | | Week 14 | In City of Glass, meaning?s disintegration, silence, and disappearance are explored as symptoms of postmodern epistemological crisis. | | | Week 15 | In City of Glass, meaning?s disintegration, silence, and disappearance are explored as symptoms of postmodern epistemological crisis. | | | Week 16 | Revision | | | |
| 1 | McHale, Brian. 2001. Postmodernist Fiction. Routledge. | | | |
| 1 | Waugh, Patricia. 1984. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. Routledge. | | | 2 | Fowles, John. 1998. The French Lieutenant?s Woman. Vintage. | | | 3 | Auster, Paul. 2004. The City of Glass. Penguin Books, 2004. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | Midterm Week | | 50 | | End-of-term exam | Final Exam | Final | | 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 | 15 | 60 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 4 | 8 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 4 | 8 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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