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ISTANBUL GELİŞİM UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM

MODERNIST LITERATURE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ELL415 MODERNIST LITERATURE 7 3 3 8

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 - Introduction to the course and discussion on the topics of the following weeks. -
2 Reading the Material Assigned Discussion on the theoretical, literary, social, and political background of the late 19th and early 20th century: anti-realism, anti-humanism, Darwinism, WW1, crisis of representation, self-reflexivity, elitism, art for art’s sake, voicing the unvoiced, perplexity, scepticism, structuralism, Freudian psychoanalysis and the unconscious, fragmented subjectivity, form over content, loss of innocence, nonlinearity, anxiety of searching for a logos etc. Lecture & Discussion
3 Reading the Material Assigned Discussion on the theoretical, literary, social, and political background of the late 19th and early 20th century continues. Lecture & Discussion
4 Reading the Material Assigned James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Lecture & Discussion
5 Reading the Material Assigned James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Lecture & Discussion
6 Reading the Material Assigned James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Lecture & Discussion
7 Reading the Material Assigned James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Lecture & Discussion
8 Reading the Material Assigned Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Lecture & Discussion
9 Reading the Material Assigned Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Lecture & Discussion
10 - MID-TERM EXAM -
11 Reading the Material Assigned Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Lecture & Discussion
12 Reading the Material Assigned Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Lecture & Discussion
13 Reading the Material Assigned Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (as a transition from modernism to postmodernism) Lecture & Discussion
14 Reading the Material Assigned Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (as a transition from modernism to postmodernism) Lecture & Discussion
15 Reading the Material Assigned Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (as a transition from modernism to postmodernism) Lecture & Discussion
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -