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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS AKE 5036 TRANSATLANTIC MODERNISM ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YEŞIM BAŞARIR

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This course examines in detail some of the key authors and artists of Modernism in Europe and the U.S.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Demonstrate knowledge of the authors and texts addressed on the course as well as the key theoretical issues of Modernist studies. 2   Critically analyze modernist texts. 3   Understand the cultural and historical context behind High Modernism in general and Transatlantic modernism in particular. 4   Compare and contrast European and American modernist texts in the canon. 5   Understand how literary modernism has evolved into postmodernism.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Introduction Modernism in Europe and the U.S. 2 Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) "Painter of Modern Life" (nonfiction, 1863), "The Beacons" The Flowers of Evil (poem, 1857) 3 Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) Mallarme: "Flowers" "The Pipe" "Homage to Richard Wagner" (poem) Verlaine: "Innocents We" "After Three Years" (poem) 4 Comte de Lautreamont (1846 -1870) Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) Lautreamont: The Songs of Maldoror (poetic novel, 1868) Rimbaud: "Memory" "Motion" (poem) 5 Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) Paul Valery (1871-1945) Laforgue: "October's Little Miseries" "The Dirge of the Poet's Fetus" (poem) Valery: "Seaside Cemetry" (poem, 1920) 6 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) James Joyce (1882-1941) Yeats: "Second Coming" (poem, 1919) Joyce: "Araby" (short story, 1914) 7 Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Rainer Marie Rilke (1875-1926) Mann: "Tobias Mindernickel" (short story, 1897) Rilke: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (novel, 1910) 8 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) Wilde: "The Happy Prince" (tale, 1888) Barnes: "Smoke" (short story, 1910) 9 Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Hart Crane (1899-1932) Proust: Swann's Way (excerpts from the novel, 1913) Crane: "Forgetfulness" "Interior" (poem) 10 Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Stein: "Gentle Lena" Three Lives (novella, 1909) Woolf: "Kew Gardens" (short story, 1919) 11 Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "Remembrance" "Sorrow" "Spring" (poem) Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants" (short story, 1927) 12 Ezra Pound (1885-1972) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Pound: "A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts" (essays, 1918), "Portrait d'une Femme" (poem, 1912) Williams: "The Red Wheelbarrow" (poem, 1923) 13 Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Aiken: "1915: The Trenches" II (poem, 1917) Eliot: "Burnt Norton" from Four Quartets (1936)

Recomended or Required Reading

Wilson, Edmund. Axel's Castle: A Study of Imaginative Literature 1870-1930. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures Presentations and discussion Textual Analysis

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

Assessment will involve one mid-term and one final exam. In examinations it is important that students achieve coherence of thought, understanding of course topics and contexts, and synthesis of the ideas and topics on the course.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

The minimum attendance requirement for this class is 70 %.

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 13 3 39 Preparation for final exam 1 10 10 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39 Reading 13 5 65 Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10 Preparing presentations 1 8 8 Final 1 3 3 Midterm 1 3 3 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 177

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 PO.15 PO.16 LO.1 5 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 LO.2 5 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 LO.3 5 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 LO.4 LO.5