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TEXTUAL ANALYSİS II COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ELL212 TEXTUAL ANALYSİS II 4 2 2 4

Objectives and Contents

Objectives: This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the three principal literary genres: fiction, poetry, and drama. It is aimed at introducing narrative techniques, critical and literary terms. It also helps the students to develop methods and strategies to interpret a written literary text; thus, they can demonstrate their own arguments both in class and a written homework.
Content: The course covers selected prose works from World literature. The students will practice close reading to discuss the features of texts such point of view, tone, characterization, plot, imagery and metaphor. They will be introduced an overview of the methods of textual analysis and the ways to discover meaningful patterns within texts and what matters in interpretation.