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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
SSB 4004	TEXT ANALYSIS -POSTMODERN	COMPULSORY	2	0	0	2

Offered By

Department of Performing Arts

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YASEMIN SEVIM SALMAN

Offered to

Dramatic Writing and Dramaturgy
Performance Arts
Play Writing - Dramaturgy
Stage Design

Course Objective

As a last year s last half course, the course provides vast variety of currently wrote texts especially between modern and postmodern, having aspects of intertextual relations, postmodern texts, in-yer-face plays, absurd or ironic texts, texts containing parody.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Having knowledge about postmodern concept and postmodern era features,
2	Postmodernizmi oluşturan temel eğilimleri öğrenmiş olması,
3	Having knowledge about forwarded hyper reality in postmodern theater works, sense of time and place, intertextuality, sectionality, pastiche, collage etc.
4	Having capability of discussing (with the concepts such as psychologic depth, loneliness, belonging sense, paranoia, being marginal, violence, loss of memory etc.) the situation of a character holding the individual within postmodern times,
5	Having the equipments to survey and discuss with the concepts that brought front, within the potmodern theater works that are held as examples,are all required.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

SSB 4003 - Text Analysis -Modern

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Postmodern theater and postmodern text is held. First step Samuel Beckett s Waiting for Godot is discussed.
2	Martin Macdonagh play Pillow Man, postmodernity s small stories as gifts and concept of hyperreality are discussed.
3	Philip Ridley s Leaves of Glass, psychologic depth and its effects on the depth of the story are discussed.
4	Jumping in time and similarity in place and the adventure in changing world an nature: Andrew Bovell s play When the Rain Stops Falling.
5	Tom Stoppard s play Rosencrantz ve Guildernstern Are Dead tragedy containing the play Hamlet s two character and intertextuality
6	Reinhold Tritt s play named The Wave, obedience tests impact on individuals and the effect of belonging.
7	Tracy Letts s Bug and nuclear wars creating paranoias effect on individuals.
8	Antigone in New York by Janusz Glowacki, Antigone theme held with contemporary conditions, how the marginalized individuals ruined by the wild capitalism in the play. Antigone theme held with contemporary conditions, how the marginalized individuals ruined by the wild capitalism in the play.
9	Peter Schaffer s play The Gift of the Gorgon, usage of mythology in contemporary literature and the place of the violence concept in theater.
10	David Hare s Amy s View play, in terms of unrepairable loneliness of the individual, contemporary arts of theater and cinema/movies discussed.
11	Arthur Miller s play Mr.Peters Connections in terms of lack of memory, questioning life through never existed or imaginary people
12	A collage: Özdemir Nutku s play Kül Altındaki Kor edited from Çekhov
13	From Özen Yula or Civan Canova, postmodernist text approach held
14	Midterm Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Postmodernite üzerine yazılmış kaynaklar
Kubilay Aktulum Metinlererarası Ilişkiler Öteki yayınları
Kubilay Aktulum Parçalılık Öteki yayınları
Kubilay Aktulum Kopuk Yazı Kopuk yapıt Öteki yayınları
Aleks Sierz Yüzüne Tiyatro (In yer face) Mitos Boyut yayınları
Jean Baudrillard (çeviri Oğuz Adanır) Sessiz Yığınların Gölgesinde (Toplumsalın Sonu)
Terry Eaglaton Kamusal Alanın Çöküşü
Sanatın Sonu gibi postmoderniteyi içeren kaynaklar ve doğu batı dergisinde yayımlanan incelemeler

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Learning and teaching strategy, after transferring the properties of postmodern theater of our time, with the romance of the era s incorrigible access to the texts of postmodernity, allowing the formation of a postmodern text information, research and study on all the sub-headings and in the light of trends in contemporary postmodern text analysis methods contained in the routing, raising interest in the structuralist and semiotic interpretation techniques.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	FIN	FINAL EXAM
3	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4	RST	RESIT
5	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The course is of %40 midterm exam, %60 final exam; and also student attendance participation, effort to reach sources, expression, criticism and creativity skills, (esp. in presentation) methodological approach.

Assessment Criteria

First of all how much books, papers, magazines, could the student reach the reviews contained Are the visual materials within those While the presentation realised or report is written, is there a method followed The requirements of the postmodern text, semiotic and structuralist method usage skills are all assessment criterion.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

First rule is to read the text to be discussed. After reading the play (both the presentation group and the rest of the class must read the play), students obliged to try reaching the further info on the writer and the text. It is very important to be able to add to the presentation, to contribute sources etc. Attendance, participation, maintaining the presentation topic well are all basic.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yasemin.sevim@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

no office hours

Work Placement(s)