COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSATLANTIC MODERNISM

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 MIDTERM EXAM MIDTERM EXAM
8 Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Rainer Marie Rilke (1875-1926) Mann: "Tobias Mindernickel" (short story, 1897) Rilke: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (novel, 1910)
9 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) Wilde: "The Happy Prince" (tale, 1888) Barnes: "Smoke" (short story, 1910)
10 Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Hart Crane (1899-1932) Proust: Swann's Way (excerpts from the novel, 1913) Crane: "Forgetfulness" "Interior" (poem)
11 Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Stein: "Gentle Lena" Three Lives (novella, 1909) Woolf: "Kew Gardens" (short story, 1919)
12 Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "Remembrance" "Sorrow" "Spring" (poem) Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants" (short story, 1927)
13 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)
14 Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Aiken: "1915: The Trenches" II (poem, 1917) Eliot: "Burnt Norton" from Four Quartets (1936)
15 Psychological Realism Henry James (1843-1916) James: The Beast in the Jungle (novella, 1903)
16 FINAL EXAM FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

Butler, Christopher. Modernizm. Istanbul: Dost, 2013.
Cahoone, L. ed. From Modernism to Postmodernism. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996.
Childs, Peter. Modernism (The New Critical Idiom). London: Routledge, 2000.
Sarup, Madan. An Introductory Guide to Poststructuralism and Postmodernism. U of Georgia P, 1993.
Wellek, R. A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950. Vol 6: American Criticism, 1900-1950. Yale U P, 1986.
Wilson, Edmund. Axel's Castle: A Study of Imaginative Literature 1870-1930. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

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: They 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

None

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, questions may require multiple responses.
3. Questions examine the student's ability for combining theory with literary and intellectual history in handling 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
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Reading 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Web Search and Library Research 14 1 14
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 180

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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