COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WOMEN IN GOTHIC LITERATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 6018 WOMEN IN GOTHIC LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Women's and Family Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YEŞIM BAŞARIR

Offered to

Women's and Family Studies

Course Objective

Examine gothic literature that portray the female image as perceived in social, historical and intellectual context.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand the intellectual and social parameters defining the role of women in cultural memory,
2   Define the critical perpectives of the Uncanny that frame the thematic and symbolic patterns of thought in the text,
3   Evaluate women writers and women in written work as partnering arguments of the gender policies and cultural debate in gothic literature,
4   Discuss the literary conventions and archetypal forms that define the position of women in gothic imagination,
5   Make a discourse analysis of women's literary voice in gothic novel and short fiction

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Gothic Femme Fatale and Female Uncanny Death of Beauty "Ligeia" (E. A. Poe, 1838) "Lenore" (1843), "Annabel Lee" (1849)
2 Ghost Women and Curse of the Past "The Fall of the House of Usher" (E. A. Poe, 1839)
3 Female Body as an Object of Science and Gothicism of Perfection "The Birth-Mark" (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1843)
4 Toxic Women of Dark Sciences "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1844)
5 Men's Paradise, Women's Hell "The Tartarus of Maids" (Herman Melville, 1855)
6 Madness and Female Gothicism "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892)
7 Haunted Houses and Ghost Landladies "Haunted House" (Virginia Woolf, 1921) "Ghost Girls" (Joyce Carol Oates, 1995)
8 Puritan Heritage and the Female Other "The Lottery" (Shirley Jackson, 1948)
9 Grotesque Women and Female Noir "The Landlady" (Roald Dahl, 1959)
10 Grotesque Women and Female Noir "A Rose for Emily" (William Faulkner, 1930)
11 Women of Mystery Tales "The Empty Birdcage" (Patricia Highsmith, 1970)
12 Witches as the Female Grotesque in Fairy Tales "The Werewolf" (Angela Carter, 1979)
13 Wise Women of the Ancient World "The Sailer-Boy's Tale" (Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen, 1942)
14 Gothic Moms, Gothic Families Coraline (Neil Gaiman, 2002)

Recomended or Required Reading

Secondary Sources:
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, Madwoman in the Attic, 1979
Julian Fleenor, ed, The Female Gothic, 1983
Kate Ferguson Ellis, The Contested Castle, 1989
Eugenia DeLamotte, Perils of the Night, 1990
Diane Long Hoeveler, Gothic Feminism, 1998
Helene Meyers, Femicidal Fears, 2001
Donna Heiland, Gothic and Gender, 2004
Andrew Smith & Diana Wallace, The Female Gothic: New Directions, 2009
Avril Horner & Sue Zlosnik, Women and the Gothic, 2016

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Courses: Of the teaching strategies, courses are the primary components of instruction to lay the theoretical basis of subject and introduce the reading material relevant to the studied topic. Courses display a central role in getting to know the terms and concepts defining the topic.
2. In-class discussions: In-class discussions aim at questioning the applicability of course material to diverse situations, thus increasing the factual tangibility of the information. The last hour of each weekly lecture is reserved for discussions.
3. Visual presentations and films: It includes the in-class projection of visual data such as pictures, illustrations, photographs, and maps as well as films and documentaries complementing the topic.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Exam questions aim at measuring the student's performance in discussing the social, cultural and literary issues, and helping him/her develop an analytical and critical viewpoint.
2. Depending on analytical approach, exam questions may require multiple responses.
3. Questions examine the student's ability for combining theory with literary and intellectual history on various topics.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are required to attend 70% of the course schedule.
2. Exams are in class and timed. Questions are based on open-book and open-notebook principle.
3. Any form of cheating and plagiarism in the exam will result in a zero grade and in disciplinary action.
4. Midterm exam covers the topics instructed in class from the beginning of semester to the day of the exam. Final exam covers the topics instructed in class after the midterm exam to the end of the semester, with some references to the content of the midterm exam.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yesim.basarir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Reading 14 3 42
Web Search and Library Research 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 152

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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