COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EUROPEAN AND TURKISH FIN DE SIèCLE LITERATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KAR 5002 EUROPEAN AND TURKISH FIN DE SIèCLE LITERATURE COMPULSORY 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Comparative Literature

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR NEVZAT KAYA

Offered to

Comparative Literature

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to examine how the Classical Modernity has influenced Turkish and European Literatures at the end of the 19th century by means of shared motifs and themes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To recognize the relation between Fin de siecle literature and the Notion of finiteness.
2   To evaluate Fin de siècle literature as the beginning of modernity in the classical sense.
3   To evaluate shared motifs of European and Turkish literatures in this period.
4   To define the period of Fin de siècle as a supracultural period in literary history.
5   To compare European and Turkish Fin de siècle literature by means of text analysis.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Fin de siecle: Literary History and the Apocalypse
2 Fin de siecle and its critics: Max Nordau and Others
3 Fin de siecle: Nietzsche, Dionysus and the Dead God.
4 Artificial Worlds and at Odds With Nature
5 Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Tale of the 672nd Night
6 Counter Worlds
7 Midterm Exam
8 From Tevfik Fikret to Refik Halid Karay
9 Women's Literature: Nezihe Muhiddin
10 Richard von Krafft-Ebing and the Psychopathia Sexualis
11 The Paradise of Pathologies
12 Charles Baudelaire and the Consequences
13 Dark Romanticism
14 Dying Fathers
15 Wrap-up
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Freud, Sigmud: Uygarlığın Huzursuzluğu, Istanbul, 2009.
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Tragedyanın Doğuşu, Istanbul, 2010.
Paglia, Camille: Cinsel Kimlikler, Ankara, 2013.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, in class discussions, assignments and presentations.

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

Will be announced.

Assessment Criteria

Will be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance is obligatory.
2. Any kind of plagiarism will be subject to disciplinary action.
3. Preparation to weekly lectures (reading the respective material) and contribution to in class discussion is obligatory.
4. Students prepare presentations about topics given by the instructor.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

nevzat.kaya@deu.edu.tr
232.311 94 94

Office Hours

Will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 195

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.1554
LO.25454
LO.35
LO.455
LO.545

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