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POSTMODERN LITERATURE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
TDY519 POSTMODERN LITERATURE 1 3 3 6

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY

Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 Literature review, lecture What is the difference between Newtonian physics and Einstein's physics and what is the influence of Einstein's physics on postmodern art? What are the differences between the traditional realist novel and the postmodern narrative? Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation
2 Literature review, lecture How postmodern literary art / theory started in world culture and art. The beginning of Dostoevsky Poetics. Franz Kafka "Transformation" in his work. Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation
3 Literature review, lecture The effects of Eistein physics, Dostoevsky's poetics, French New Novel Movement, Modernist and Postmodernist narratives. (Transitional period) Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation
4 Literature review, lecture What is Dostoevsky and Dialogue? What does it mean to be the "subject" of a narrative? With an example from Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground. Lecture, Interactive Presentation
5 Literature review, lecture Michel Butor.What is chronotope through the narrative "The Change"?What has changed in literature and the novel with the French New Novel Movement? Lecture, Interactive Presentation
6 Literature review, lecture How did the postmodernist process begin in Turkish literature? Who are the pioneering postmodernist writers in Turkish literature? Lecture, Interactive Presentation
7 Literature review, lecture Are there any postmodernist traces in Oğuz Atay's narrative Waiting for Fear? Lecture, Interactive Presentation
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation What are the postmodernist features of Latife Tekin's narrative Sevgili Arsız Ölüm? Intertextuality: With the example of analogy. Lecture, text analysis studies
10 Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation Is there a chronotope in Latife Tekin's narrative Ormanda Ölüm Yokmuş? Lecture, text analysis studies
11 Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation To understand what metafiction is through postmodernist works. To understand and exemplify metafiction through Gogol's The Overcoat. Lecture, text analysis studies
12 Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation Are intertextuality and intertextuality the same thing? To comprehend that they are different by going through examples. Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation
13 Literature review, lecture Characteristics of parody, pastiche, collage, montage, anecdote, sarcastic transformation, bricholage techniques in terms of their general characteristics Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation
14 Literature review, lecture Hypertextual design, grotesque, consciousness, dramatic method, reflective consciousness technique, Henry James and the Art of the Novel. Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation
15 Literature review, lecture Hypertextual design, grotesque, consciousness, dramatic method, reflective consciousness technique, Henry James and the Art of the Novel. Literature review, reading, Interactive presentation
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -