COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DIALECTICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 6069 DIALECTICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN AMERICAN LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LEMAN GIRESUNLU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This course will mainly focus through Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno s Dialectic of Enlightenment to explore perspectives of "American critical theorists, British New Leftists, Transatlantic Cultural Studies scholars, Postmodernists, and those working in the current after-theory moment from 1970 to 2010." (Howard Prosser)
See :
Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) 1st Edition
by Max Horkheimer (Author), Theodor W. Adorno (Author), Gunzelin Schmid Noerr (Editor), Edmund Jephcott (Translator)
Howard Prosser Dialectic of Enlightenment in the Anglosphere: Horkheimer and Adorno's Remnants of Freedom 1st ed. 2020 Edition)

Therefore, the course aims to scrutinize works of the Frankfurt School, (i.e. Horkheimer and Adorno) primarily in the ways in which to explore responses from intellectuals expanding into contemporary times.

Art works, poetry, literary texts will allow exploring the issues as part of major critical texts within the area; as well as within the American cultural context as part of racial, class and gender issues.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1) The student becomes accustomed with related critical texts.
2   2) The student will develop skills to summarise and comment on assigned critical texts.
3   3) The student becomes accustomed with critical approaches onto literary and cultural texts included into the class curriculum.
4   4) The student will develop critical skills of analysis and synthesis through literary content and critical texts included into the class curriculum.
5   5) The student will be expected to apply developed ciritical ability through class curriculum onto a contemporary cultural and or literary text as a written project.
6   6) The student shares written final project as a class presentation.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 week #1 introduction The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (YaleCourses) https://www.youtube.com/watch v=FFpGf7aPXNA
2 week #2 Adorno and Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment - Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch v=vMiF9Bv-72s
3 week # 3 Adorno and Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment - Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch v=J_qm4DtPQMM
4 week # 4 Dialectic of Enlightenment II: The Culture industry http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.comMax Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment, The Culture Industry: Enlightenmentas Mass Deception, 129-167 Lecture
5 week # 5 Fetishism and Popular Culture http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.comUmberto Eco. Casablanca from Travels in Hyper-Reality, pgs. 197-212.Stuart Hall in During. Encoding, decoding from During, The Cultural Studies Reader , pgs. 507-517 Lecture and discussion
6 week # 6 Birmingham and Stuart Hall from Roll Over Beethoven: the Return of Cultural Strife . British Cultural Studies from Stuart Hall. Representation and the Media Lecture and discussion
7 week # 7 American Reception: Social and Cultural Context from Roll Over Beethoven: the Return of Cultural Strife , 167-202 Stanley Aronowitz. Cultural Study in Postmodern America, Joel Pfister. The Americanization of Cultural Studies. in Storey, 287-299 Lecture and discussion
8 week # 8 Midterm Lecture and discussion
9 week # 9 Stuart Hall. What is this `Black in Black Popular Culture Social Justice , Vol. 20, nos 1-2. 104-114 Lecture and discussion
10 week # 10 Stuart Hall. Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies in During, 97-112.Raymond Williams. The Future of Cultural Studies in John Storey, What is Cultural Studies New York:Arnold/St. Martin's Press. 168-177. Lecture and discussion
11 week #11 Herbert Marcuse. One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society , Introduction and Chapter 1, Lecture and discussion
12 week # 12 Gilles Deleuze. Postscript on the Societies of Control Lecture and discussion
13 week # 13 Walter Benjamin" Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" https://www.youtube.com/watch v=blq9sCIyXgA Weak Messianism: Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project https://www.youtube.com/watch v=r69bGf2DnBY Lecture and discussion
14 week # 14 week # 14 more subjects into art and poetry Ginsberg, Zurita, Celan, Surrealists and Objectivists, WC Williams, Moore, Bishop, Stevens, Paz, Olson, Levertov, Creeley, Ashbery, O Hara, Rich, Darwish, Avidan, Morejón, Césaire, Bachmann, Daive, Albiach, Pasolini). Lecture and discussion
15 week # 15 Wrap up Closing remarks

Recomended or Required Reading

Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) 1st Edition
by Max Horkheimer (Author), Theodor W. Adorno (Author), Gunzelin Schmid Noerr (Editor), Edmund Jephcott (Translator)

Howard Prosser Dialectic of Enlightenment in the Anglosphere: Horkheimer and Adorno's Remnants of Freedom 1st ed. 2020 Edition).
Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, 2nd Edition

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) All selected teaching material; written and visual will be notified prior to each semester. syllabi maybe altered with due notice.
2) Lectures and class presentations maybe implemented through online teaching platforms, and therefore substantited via related technological teaching aids: this may include a blog site dedicated to share class reading material and syllabi.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams:
Throughout the semester there will be two (2) exams
1) Midterm (%50)
Midterm exam will be administered as an in-class exam, comprising of essay type questions; and or a brief question and answer type exam.

2) Final (%50)
Final exam maybe administered as an in-class exam, comprising of essay type questions; and or a brief question and answer type exam.

However a final Project and its in-class presentation will be expected to fullfill the Final exam requirement.

ASSESMENT CRITERIA
1. Midterm and final exams asses knowledge. Essay type questions asses knowledge presented as part of a well developed composition prepared in English.
2. Question and answer type exams expecting brief answers, do asses knowledge.
3. Research paper and presentation assignments require adherence to academic research and writing standards following the MLA style guide, and adherence to academic ethics.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1) Class participation is compulsory. (%70) students are expected to be prepared to participate into class discussions.

2). Research paper and presentation assignments require adherence to academic research and writing standards following the MLA style guide, and adherence to academic ethics.

3) Late assignments will be subject to deduction in grade as noticed on class syllabus.

4) Students held exempt from class participation, are expected to stay updated with the current year's course content.

5) Students are expected to adhere with the academic code of ethics at all time.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 3 45
Preparation for final exam 2 15 30
Midterm 1 20 20
Project Final Presentation 2 40 80
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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