Teaching Literary Theory

Course Code:

EDTR 351

Course Period:

Autumn

Course Type:

Core

P:

3

Lab:

0

Credits:

3

ECTS:

8

Course Language:

Türkçe

Course Objectives:

This course deals with literary theory on a historical survey from Aristoteles to modernity.

Course Content:

This course deals with literary theory on a historical survey from Aristoteles to modernity.

Course Methodology:

1. Lecture 2. Case study 3. Discussion 4. Demonstration 5. Group work 6. Microteaching 7. Problem solving

Course Evaluation Methods:

A. Classical exam B. Multiple-choice test C. Incomplete D. True-False E. Oral exam F. Portfolio G. Performance type H. Report

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
Knows that literature is a modern times phenomenon.	1	A
Knows that story telling is universal and directly shapes human understandings of world.	1	A
Gain insight into that orality and literacy are different media that are related specifically to particular cultural matrices and that each has its own particular range of possibilities and limitations.	1	A
Knows that poetics is a historical and fundamental way to interpret narratives.	1	A
Have the necessary knowledge about universal figures of humanity like Homers, Aristotle, Vico and Todorov.	1	A

Course Flow

Week	Topics	Study Materials
1	Introduction. Discussions on syllabus.	Syllabus
2	“Literature” and rise of “nation”.	Related readings
3	What is theory? Fundamental terms.	Related readings
4	Oral culture. Primary oral cultures and thinking the previous history of writing.	Related readings
5	New world of writing: discipline and technology.	Related readings
6	Secondary oral cultures: hybrid literary genres.	Related readings
7	MID-TERM	Related readings
8	A very first theory of high culture: Aristotle and his Poetics.	Related readings
9	Induction and deduction.	Related readings
10	Medieval ages, renaissances and Islamic thought.	Related readings
11	Giambattista Vico and theory of tropes.	Related readings
12	Is it possible to have a science of literature: Todorov’s Introduction to Poetics.	Related readings
13	On analyzing a literary text: Namık Kemal and his Emir Nevrûz.	Related readings
14	General Revision	Related readings

Recommended Sources

Required

Aristoteles. Poetika: Şiir Sanatı Üzerine. Çev. Samif Rifat. İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 2007.

Erkman, Fatma Akerson. Edebiyat ve Kuramlar. İstanbul: İthaki Yayınları, 2010.

Ong, Walter J. Sözlü ve Yazılı Kültür: Sözün Teknolojileşmesi. Çev. Sema Postacıoğlu Banon. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 1999.

Todorov, Tzvetan. Poetikaya Giriş. Çev. Kaya Şahin. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 2001.

Todorov, Tzvetan, Bernard Foccroulle ve Robert Legros. Sanatta Bireyin Doğuşu. Çev. Esra Özdoğan. İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2012.

Recommended

Auerbach, Erich. Yabanın Tuzlu Ekmeği. Haz. Martin Vialon. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 2010.

Vico, Giambattista. Yeni Bilim. Çev. Sema Önal. Ankara: Doğu Batı Yayınları, 2007.

Material Sharing

Documents

Additional course notes delivered by the lecturer.

Course’s Contribution to Program

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

1

To have the necessary knowledge about “History of Turkish Language” as a part of teaching Turkish language and literature curriculum in high schools.

X

2

To have the necessary knowledge about “Turkey Turkish” and “Modern Turkish Grammar” as a part of Turkish language and literature teaching in high schools.

X

3

To have the necessary knowledge about historical lexicology and philological evolution of Turkish language.

X

4

To have the necessary knowledge about the stages of acculturation and oral / written sources of Turkish language.

X

5

To have the necessary knowledge about modern Turkish dialects and their literatures.

X

6

To have the necessary knowledge about “History of Turkish Literature” as a part of Turkish language and literature teaching in high schools.

X

7

To have the necessary knowledge about all major figures of Turkish literature (writer, poet, critic, academic, etc.) as a part of Turkish language and literature teaching in high schools.

X

8

To have the necessary knowledge about oral / written sources of medieval and early modern Turkish literature.

X

9

To have the necessary knowledge about modern Turkish literature from Tanzimat to Republic period throughout the history.

X

10

To instruct students to synthesize the dynamics of Turkish modernization with the content of Turkish Language and Literature teaching and to have critical attitudes with historiography of Turkish literature.

X

11

To instruct students to make critical readings of worldwide / national classics listed by Ministry of National Education .

X

12

To instruct students to synthesize their common knowledge of literary genres, forms and literary history with the theoretical frameworks about construction of national history.

X

13

To have ability to design original materials for field education and develop new projects.

X

14

To have the necessary knowledge about paleography, research and presentation techniques using in Humanities.

X

15

To have a critical and comparative perspective about Turkish literature among world literatures.

X

ECTS

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	15	3	45
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	15	9	135
Mid-terms	1	2	2
Quiz	1	1	1
Final examination	1	3	3
Total Work Load			186
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			7.44
ECTS Credit of the Course			8

IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Mid-terms	1	40
Quizzes	1	10
FINAL	1	50
Total		100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE		50
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE		50
Total		100

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