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ISTANBUL GELİŞİM UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM

WORLD LITERATURE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
TDE317 WORLD LITERATURE 5 3 3 5

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Realism movement in world literature: (19th century) Selected stories from Tolstoy. Lecture, question-response discussion method
2 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Realism in world literature. Selected stories and irony from Gogol. The work named The Overcoat. Lecture, question-response discussion method
3 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Dostoevsky. Notes from Underground. Dialogy in Dostoevsky. Comparison of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Lecture, question-response discussion method
4 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Selected short stories written in gothic style by Edgar Allan Poe. Lecture, question-response discussion method
5 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Selected texts by Stefan Zweig. Readings of The Chess. Lecture, question-response discussion method
6 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Selected texts from Anton Chekhov. Pieces of theatrical text. The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya Lecture, question-response discussion method
7 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Reading J. Paul Sarte's Nausea Lecture, question-response discussion method
8 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Reading Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov Lecture, question-response discussion method
9 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Readings from William Shakespeare: Othello, Romeo and Juliet Lecture, question-response discussion method
10 - MID-TERM EXAM -
11 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Reading Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Information about the Absurd theater. Lecture, question-response discussion method
12 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Reading Animal Farm by George Orwell. Lecture, question-response discussion method
13 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Readings of İnce Memed by Yaşar Kemal. Lecture, question-response discussion method
14 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Shakespeare influences in Oğuz Atay's Tutunamayanlar. Lecture, question-response discussion method
15 Literature review, Reading Materials Assigned Reading Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis Lecture, question-response discussion method
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -