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ISTANBUL GELİŞİM UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM

POSTMODERN LITERATURE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ELL416 POSTMODERN LITERATURE 8 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. Lecture & Discussion
2 Reading the Material Assigned Discussion on the theoretical, literary, social, and political background of the mid-20th century and the late 20th century: anti-realism, anti-Platonism, plurality of truth, textuality of truth, self-reflexivity, voicing the unvoiced, intertextuality, criticism of the Cartesian Self, ontology of becoming, nonlinearity, post-structuralism, Derridean deconstruction, de-centredness of logos, no correspondence between signifier and signified. Lecture & Discussion
3 Reading the Material Assigned Discussion on the theoretical, literary, social, and political background of the mid-20th century and the late 20th century continues. Lecture & Discussion
4 Reading the Material Assigned John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant's Woman Lecture & Discussion
5 Reading the Material Assigned John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant's Woman Lecture & Discussion
6 Reading the Material Assigned John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant's Woman Lecture & Discussion
7 Reading the Material Assigned John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant's Woman Lecture & Discussion
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Reading the Material Assigned Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Lecture & Discussion
10 Reading the Material Assigned Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Lecture & Discussion
11 Reading the Material Assigned Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Lecture & Discussion
12 Reading the Material Assigned Julian Barnes’ England, England Lecture & Discussion
13 Reading the Material Assigned Julian Barnes’ England, England Lecture & Discussion
14 Reading the Material Assigned Julian Barnes’ England, England Lecture & Discussion
15 Reading the Material Assigned Julian Barnes’ England, England Lecture & Discussion
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -