COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LITERARY TEXTS AND TERMINOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IMT 1104 LITERARY TEXTS AND TERMINOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR MEHMET BÜYÜKTUNCAY

Offered to

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
English Translation and Interpreting

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with unique terms, literary genres, and structural characteristics of literary language and to teach how to use these terms. Displaying the changes in Old, Middle and Modern English is another aim.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Acquire required conceptual ant theoritical knowledge for literary translation
2   Understand lexical, grammatical, and textual structures of English and Turkish
3   Acquire advanced reading and writing skills in English
4   Work individually or in a group

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What literature is, what it is not Literariness concept, high culture vs.popular culture
2 Literary canon, literary genres (main and sub-genres)
3 Poetry and its sub-genres ballads, eulogy, epic, heroic couplets, hymns
4 Lyric, mock-epic,idyll, ode, tongue twisters, haiku,limerics
5 Sonnet forms Spenserian, Petrarchan, Shakespearean sonnets, blank and free verse
6 Imagism in poetry, metaphysicals, conceit, hyperbole
7 Mid-term
8 Irony, satire, parody, burlesque, caricature, light comedy
9 Drama, dramatic, monologue, dramatization, dramaturgy, restoration comedies, comedy of manners, comedy of morals
10 Melodrama, tragi-comedy, tragedy, heroes, anti-heroes, tragic flow
11 Character creation in prose, flat-round characters, picaresque, epistolary, historical novel, vernacular language, euphemism
12 Archaism, collage, simile, metaphor, metonymy
13 Paradox, oxymoron, pun, onomatopoeia, neologism
14 Final Remarks

Recomended or Required Reading

NTC s Dictionary of Literary Terms Kathleen Marner & Ralph Rausch NTC Publishing, 1991.
A Glossary of Literary Terms: Seveth Edition M.H.Abrams. Hartcourt Publishers, 1999.
A Dictionary of Literary Terms J.A.Cuddon. Penguin, 1985.
Literary Terms Berner Steven M.An Electronic Book Accessible through the WorldWide Web.
Literary Terms and Criticism, John Peck, Palgrave, 2002.
Several Literary Texts

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face-to-face and interactive courses. Critical reading and thinking skills will be enhanced. Dynamic, critical and effective reading will be promoted.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ * 0.30 + ODV * 0.30 + FN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 BBN Bütünleme Sonu Başarı Notu VZ * 0.30 + ODV * 0.30 + BUT * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assessment will be based on assignments (20%) , participation and attendance(20%), mid-term (20%), a and final exam (40%).

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance is obligatory.
2. Texts to be read will be provided in advance and students are expected to be ready to discuss it in the class.
3. It is obligatory to take place in in-class discussions

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 88

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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