COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE NOVEL IN WORLD LITERATURE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 6056 THE NOVEL IN WORLD LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

American Culture and Literature (English)

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YEŞIM BAŞARIR

Offered to

American Culture and Literature (English)

Course Objective

Examine the novel as a literary genre and explore great classic novels in world literatures through a critical perspective.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Comment on the origins and rise of the novel in literature, theory of the novel and defining characteristics of the genre in comparison to other genres
2   Describe various novels of classic value that have profound impact historically on literary schools and movements
3   Develop argumentative and critical approach in the textual analysis of the novel
4   Interpret moral and ethical mission of the novel throughout history
5   Define cultural and intellectual framework of the novel

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Literary Realism and Bourgeois Values Madame Bovary, 1857, Gustave Flaubert (French Literature)
2 Fall of the Russian Aristocracy Oblomov, 1859, Ivan Goncharov (Russian Literature)
3 Rise of the Anti-Hero in Narrative Notes from Underground, 1864, Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian Literature)
4 Faustian Themes in Literature and Late Gothic Novel Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890, Oscar Wilde (Irish Literature)
5 Modernism, Colonialism, and Apocalyptic Novel Alienation and Psychological Realism Heart of Darkness, 1902, Joseph Conrad (English Literature) The Beast in the Jungle, 1903, Henry James (American Literature)
6 Great Depression and Social Realism The Grapes of Wrath, 1939, John Steinbeck (American Literature)
7 MIDTERM EXAM MIDTERM EXAM
8 Tradition of Künstlerroman A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, 1916, James Joyce (Irish Literature)
9 Literary Surrealism and Dystopias The Trial, 1925, Franz Kafka (Austrian Literature)
10 Women's Issues and Gender Parody Orlando, 1928, Virginia Woolf (English Literature)
11 Existentialism in Literature Absurd Novel Nausea, 1938, Jean-Paul Sartre (French Literature) The Stranger, 1942, Albert Camus (French Literature)
12 Cult Novel of Science Fiction Violence A Clockwork Orange, 1962, Anthony Burgess (English Literature)
13 Art against War and European Magic Realism The Tin Drum, 1959, Günter Grass (German Literature)
14 Magic Realism in Latin American Literature One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombian Literature)
15 Criticism of Modernity Slowness, 1993, Milan Kundera (Czech Literature)
16 FINAL EXAM FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

Azim, Firdous. The Colonial Rise of the Novel. London: Routledge, 1993.
Bakhtin, M.M. The Dialogic Imagination. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.
Bowers, Maggie Ann. Magic(al) Realism. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London: Penguin, 1994
Caudwell, Christopher. Romance and Realism: A Study in English Bourgeois Literature. Princeton: University Press, 1970.
Hale, Dorothy J. (ed). The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Lukacs, Georg. Theory of the Novel. Trans. Anna Bostock. Cambridge, Mass: MIT, 1971.
Selden, Raman. Practicing Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 1989.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures: Lectures are the primary components of instruction among teaching strategies that lay the theoretical basis of subject and introduce the reading material relevant to the topic of study. Lectures play a central role in getting to know the terms and concepts defining the topic.
2. Textual analysis and discussions: These practices aim at questioning the applicability of course material to diverse situations and thus increasing the factual tangibility of the information.
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 when necessary.

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Exams are to inquire the correct use of terms and concepts profiling the course material and question the major thinking patterns acquired in the course.

Assessment Criteria

1. Exam questions aim at measuring student's performance on discussing the social, cultural and literary controversies, and help develop an analytical and critical viewpoint.
2. Depending on analytical approach, a question may inquire multiple responses.
3. Questions examine the student's ability for combining theory with literary and intellectual history in handling the issues of discussion.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are required to attend 70% of the course schedule.
2. Exam questions are based on open-book and open-note principle to improve students' thinking abilities and encourage them for higher cognitive responses.
3. Any form of cheating in the exam will result in a zero grade and also in disciplinary action.
4. Midterm exam covers the topics instructed in class from the beginning of semester to the day of the exam.
5. Final exam covers the topics instructed in class after the midterm exam to the end of the semester, with some vital references to the content of the midterm exam.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yesim.basarir@deu.edu.tr
Office phone: (232) 301 8513

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 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Reading 14 5 70
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 208

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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