COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POSTMODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 4042 POSTMODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR AYŞEGÜL GÜNDOĞDU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This course examines the characteristic and the key themes of postmodern literature and discusses these themes in selected novels/stories of American postmodern literature.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to be familiar with the major postmodern writers and novels,
2   to study selected major American postmodern novels/stories
3   to analyze the key themes such as reality, narration, history and identity in this genre
4   to evaluate the selected texts with a critical mind

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the course Discussion
2 Postmodern historiography and reality Discussion of the text
3 Postmodern narration and metafiction Discussion of the text
4 Ragtime Discussion of the text
5 Ragtime Discussion of the text
6 The Left Hand Of Darkness Discussion of the text
7 Vize
8 The Left Hand Of Darkness Discussion of the text
9 The Penelopiad Discussion of the text
10 The Penelopiad Discussion of the text
11 The Penelopiad Discussion of the text
12 Everything is Illuminated Discussion of the text
13 Everything is Illuminated Discussion of the text
14 Everything is Illuminated Discussion of the text
15 Evaluation Discussion of the text
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime New York: Fawcett Cress, 1974.
Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illumianated

Supplementary Book(s): Jenkins, Keith. Re-Thinking History. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism:History, Theory and Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Reading and discussion of the texts

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Discussion and analysis of the selected texts and class participation

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

%70 attendance is compulsory
Any attempt at plagiarism will result in F grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aysegul.gundogdu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced each term to the students.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparation for quiz etc. 0 0 0
Preparing presentations 0 0 0
Preparation for midterm exam 0 0 0
Preparation for final exam 0 0 0
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 116

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.2555555
LO.3555555
LO.4555555

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