COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MODERNISM IN AMERICA

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 3020 MODERNISM IN AMERICA COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

American Culture and Literature (English)

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YEŞIM BAŞARIR

Offered to

American Culture and Literature (English)

Course Objective

Make a comparative analysis of canonical texts presenting modern worldview and postmodern models of thinking in diverse fields of study such as language and culture, fine arts, architecture, sociology, economics, religion and philosophy.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define the intellectual and ideological standpoints of the social and political changes that have been labeled as Modernism in the late 19th century.
2   Describe the modernist attitude as given in relevant critical theories with reference to its specific terms and concepts.
3   Distinguish the pioneering movements that have finally led to modernism and the terms of continuity from Enlightenment to modern era.
4   Comment on opposing cultural strategies of modern and postmodern worldviews in establishing ideas and values.
5   Analyze the components that make up "modern" and "postmodern" America in relation to "tradition" and "continuity."

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Modern Art and Literature in Europe and the U.S. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Baudelaire: "The Beacons" The Flowers of Evil (poetry, 1857), Painter of Modern Life (essays, 1863)
2 Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) Mallarme: "The Flowers" "The Pipe" "Homage to Richard Wagner" (poems) Verlaine: "Innocents We" "After Three Years" (poems)
3 Comte de Lautreamont (1846 -1870) Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) Lautreamont: The Songs of Maldoror (excerpts) (1868) (poetic novel) Arthur Rimbaud: "Memory" "Motion" (poems)
4 Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) Paul Valery (1871-1945) Laforgue: "October's Little Miseries" "The Dirge of the Poet's Fetus"(poems) Valery: "The Seaside Cemetery" (poem, 1920)
5 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) James Joyce (1882-1941) Yeats: "The Second Coming" (poem, 1920) Joyce: "Araby" Dubliners (short story, 1914)
6 Rainer Marie Rilke (1875-1926) Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Rilke: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (novel, 1910) Mann: "Tobias Mindernickel" (short story, 1898)
7 MIDTERM EXAM MIDTERM EXAM
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) (novel, 1913) Crane: "Forgetfulness" "Interior" (poems)
10 Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Stein: "Gentle Lena" Three Lives (novella, 1909) Woolf: "Kew Gardens" (short story, 1919)
11 Ezra Pound (1885-1972) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Pound: "A Retrospect" "A Few Don'ts" (essays, 1918), "Portrait d'une Femme" (poem, 1912) Williams: "The Red Wheelbarrow" (poem, 1923)
12 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants" (short story, 1927) Millay: "Remembrance" "Sorrow" "Spring" (poems)
13 Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Aiken: "1915: The Trenches" II (poem, 1917) Eliot: "Burnt Norton" Four Quartets (poem, 1936)
14 Psychological Realism Henry James (1843-1916) James: The Beast in the Jungle (novella, 1903)
15 Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties and Its Aftermath F. S. Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited" (1931)
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.


Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures: Lectures are the primary components of instruction among teaching strategies to lay the theoretical basis of subject and introduce the reading material relevant to the studied topic. Lectures play a central role in getting to know the terms and concepts defining the topic.
2. In-Class discussions: In-class discussions aim at questioning the applicability of course material to diverse situations and thus increasing the factual tangibility of the information. The last hour of each weekly lecture is reserved for discussions.
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 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

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. Midterm exam covers the topics instructed in class from the beginning of semester to the day of the exam.
2. 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.
3. Students are required to complete the exam in the given period of time.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are required to attend 70% of the course schedule.
2. No textbooks or notes are allowed during the exam.
3. No dictionaries are allowed during the exam. All vocabulary used in the exam are covered previously in the class and expected to be familiar to the student.
4. Any form of cheating in the exam will result in a zero grade and also in disciplinary action.

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 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.135342
LO.25
LO.3344434
LO.44435
LO.55543