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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS AKE 4030 CONTEMPORARY AVANT GARDE LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

HAKAN DIBEL

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This course aims to examine contemporary avantgarde works of art and literature.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explain theories of the modernist avantgarde 2   To explain theories of the contemporary avantgarde 3   To interpret contemporary avantgarde works of art and literature 4   To analyze the inter-generic and multimedia nature of contemporary avantgarde works of art and literature 5   To use textual analysis in tandem with cultural context analysis

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Narrative forms: Postmodernism and realism (Gray) Discussion 2 Writing contemporary ethnicities (Newland) Discussion 3 Gender and sexuality (Hornby) Discussion 4 History, memory and writing (McEwan) Discussion 5 Narrating cultural spaces (Barnes) Discussion 6 Irony and paradox (DeLillo) Discussion 7 Other histories (Eugenides) Discussion 8 Midterm exam 9 Race, ethnicity and hybridity (Powers) Discussion 10 Texts and films (McCarthy) Discussion 11 Women poets and popular culture Discussion 12 Protocol and procedure in postmodern American poetry Discussion 13 The poetics of the outside Discussion 14 General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Bickley. Contemporary Fiction: The Novel Since 1990 (2008) 2. Bentley. Contemporary British Fiction (2008) 3. Brauner. Contemporary American Fiction (2010) 4. McHale. The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole (2004) 5. Nichols. Radical Affections: The Poetics of the Outside (2010) 6. Bruns. What Are Poets For An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry (2012) 7. Selected literary works

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Reading, discussion, writing

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 FIN FINAL EXAM 3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 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

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

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 12 3 36 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 7 84 Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5 Preparation for final exam 1 5 5 Final 1 1 1 Midterm 1 1 1 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 PO.14 LO.1 5 5 LO.2 5 5 LO.3 5 5 LO.4 5 5 5 LO.5 5 5