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ISTANBUL GELİŞİM UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
TDE432 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 5 3 3 5

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 Literature review, Expression Introduction of the course and information about bibliography. Basic concepts of comparative literature. Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
2 Literature review, Expression The history of comparative literature in world and Turkish literature. Schools in comparative literature studies. Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
3 Literature review, Expression Translation studies and comparative literature Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
4 Literature review, Expression Disciplines and methods of criticism utilized by comparative literature Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
5 Literature review, Expression Common elements in world myths within the framework of sample texts. Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh XI. Episode with Noah's Flood Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Text Analysis
6 Literature review, Expression, Interactive Presentation Common motifs in world and Turkish literature in the context of comparative literature. Aiskhylos. Chained Prometheus and Oğuz Atay, Reading Man in White Manto and its evaluation within the context of intertextuality. Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Text Analysis
7 Literature review, Expression, Interactive Presentation Annabel Lee poem and translations. Comparative analysis of Annabel Lee and Yahya Kemal's poem Mehlika Sultan. Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Text Analysis
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Literature review, Expression, Interactive Presentation Comparative analysis of Oğuz Atay's The Letters to My Father and Kafka's Dearest Father. Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
10 Literature review, Expression Comparative analysis of works by Latife Tekin’s Ormanda Ölüm Yokmuş and J. P. Sartre Nausea. Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
11 Literature review, Expression, Interactive Presentation Postcolonial literature (Post-Colonialism) Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Text Analysis
12 Literature review, Expression, Interactive Presentation Intercultural relations: Travel writings and travelers Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
13 Literature review, Expression, Interactive Presentation The phenomenon of migration and common themes in Migrant Literature developing in different countries Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Text Analysis
14 Literature review, Expression, Interactive Presentation Comparative Literature in the Context of Postmodernism Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Text Analysis
15 Literature review, Expression, Interactive Presentation Relationship of comparative literature with cinema, music and other arts Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Text Analysis
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -