ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY
The Department of English Language and Literature
2014-2015 Undergraduate Courses
First Term
The schedules for the common courses, "Atatürk's Principles and History of Revolution," "Turkish Language,"
"Fine Arts" and "PE," may be learned from the relevant departments or online at
http://eogren.istanbul.edu.tr/login/index.php.
INDE1006 INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE
Ayşegül Deniz Toroser Ateş
4 credits, 8 ECTS
This course aims at introducing the first-year students to English literature by presenting a survey of the
literature from its origins through to the seventeenth century, with emphasis on the process of literary and
historical development throughout.
Texts
• "Cædmon's Hymn"
• "Dream of the Rood"
• Beowulf
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Lyrics: "Summer is Ycumen In"
• Ballads: "The Cherry-tree Carol," "The Unquiet Grave"
• An overview of fable, fabliaux, allegory
• Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, "I Find No Peace"
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace"
• Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella Sonnet I
• William Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"
• An overview of 16th century drama through major history, tragedy and comedy plays by Shakespeare
and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
INDE1005 MYTHOLOGY I ENGLISH LITERATURE
Buket Akgün
4 credits, 7 ECTS
This course focuses on Genesis, and classical, Sumerian, Nordic and Celtic mythologies. It aims at introducing
the first-year students to mythological characters, themes and stories relevant to English literary texts.
Texts
• Genesis 1-11 from The Old Testament
• excerpts from The Epic of Gilgamesh
• excerpts from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur
• excerpts from Thomas Bulfinch's Bulfinch's Mythology
• excerpts from Edith Hamilton's Mythology
• Riane Eisler's "Messages from the Past: The World of the Goddess" from This Sacred Earth: Religion,
Nature, Environment
• Hesiod's "The Creation and the Early Gods" from Theogony
• Hesiod's "The Ages of Man" from Works and Days
• Ovid's "The Flood" from Metamorphoses
• Homer's The Odyssey
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INDE1004 APPLIED TEXTUAL STUDIES I
Ferah İncesu
4 credits, 6 ECTS
Together with improving the students’ comprehension and expression, it is the aim of this course to familiarize
them with key literary concepts and terms, especially to analyze and comment on short stories. The course
introduces prominent approaches and techniques of literary text analysis.
Texts
• Akşit Göktürk, Okuma Uğraşı
• Saki, "Sredni Vashtar"
• Nesbit, "Man-Size in Marble"
• Conrad, "The Lagoon"
• Woolf, "Kew Gardens"
INDE1038 FANTASY FICTION
Buket Akgün
2 credits, 4 ECTS
This course analyzes the works of English authors which helped shape the fantasy novel and introduces the
students to fantasy as a literary genre.
Texts
• J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
• Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Second Term
INDE1008 OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Ayşegül Deniz Toroser Ateş
4 credits, 7 ECTS
This course aims at introducing the first-year students to English literature by presenting a survey of the
literature from seventeenth century through to the nineteenth century. The course will focus on individual
works and genres against their socio-political background.
Texts
• Sir Francis Bacon, from The New Atlantis
• Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan
• John Donne, "Holy Sonnet VI"
• Ben Jonson, "A Fit of Rime Against Rime"
• Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"
• Daniel Defoe, from Robinson Crusoe
• Samuel Richardson, from Clarissa
• Mary Wollstonecraft, Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
INDE1007 TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Buket Akgün
4 credits, 7 ECTS
This course teaches the students how to approach a literary text. For this purpose the texts are divided into the
three genres: poetry, drama and prose. Closely analyzing the assigned poems, we will focus on features such as
rhythm, rhyme scheme, metaphor. After this we will study prose texts discussing certain features of a prose
text as narrative point of view, setting and symbolism, and then move on to the assigned plays and analyze the
dramatic techniques.
Written and Visual Texts
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Bluebeard"
• Vanessa Bell, Nude
• Wendy Cope, "The Sitter"
• Gustav Klimt, The Kiss
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt"
• W. H. Auden, "Lady Weeping at the Crossroads"
• E. A. Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"
• Diego Velázquez, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
• A. S. Byatt, "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary"
• Euripides, Medea
• Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
• Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
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INDE1009 APPLIED TEXTUAL STUDIES II
Ferah İncesu
4 credits, 6 ECTS
The scope of the course includes various necessary topics of literary praxes, such as enhancing the students’
ability to comment on the short story, introducing them to poetry criticism, familiarizing them with critical
essays and composition types/methods, and writing qualified paragraphs. It provides relevant literary terms
and concepts.
Texts
• Joyce, "The Dead"
• Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
• Melikoğlu, "Patriarchal Misogyny in 'The Dead'"
• Şavkay, "The Pretense of Order in James Joyce’s 'The Dead'"
• Melikoğlu, "Yaşam ve Ölümün Eşiğindeki Vampir-Yazar:'La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad'"
• Burwell, "Ouroboros: La Belle Dame as the Shadow of Consumption"
INDE1039 COMPOSITION
Ferah İncesu
2 credits, 5 ECTS
This course familiarizes the students with key terms, main concepts, and components of the research essay on
literature. It provides ways of doing research in print and internet sources, and of referencing in the MLA style.
It underlines tenets of academic ethics, and cherishes sensitivity to plagiarism. The course makes use of sample
professional and student critical essays. Having given basic terminology for drama criticism, the outcome of the
course is a research essay on J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea.
Texts
• J. M. Synge, Riders to the Sea
• Berlin, "Traffic of Our Stage: DruidSynge"
• Ş. Kaya, "John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea in Terms of Epistemology"
• Kennedy, "'Sympathy between man and nature': Landscape and Loss in Synge's Riders to the Sea"
• R. Leder, "Synge’s Riders to the Sea: Island as Cultural Battleground"
Third Term
INDE2030 CRITICAL APPROACHES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Arpine Mızıkyan Akfıçıcı
4 credits, 8 ECTS
The purpose of this course is to help the students to form judgments about literature. Applying primarily a
feminist, psychological and historical approach, the texts assigned in class are studied in detail.
Texts
• Brothers Grimm, "The Little Red Riding Hood"
• Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
• Angela Carter, "The Fall River Axe Murders"
INDE2012 ENGLISH THEATRE
Murat Seçkin
4 credits, 6 ECTS
This course aims at introducing the developmental process of the English drama extending into the early
twentieth century. Within this context some relevant play-texts will be studied. The students are expected to
attend the course having read the assigned material.
Texts
• Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
• William Wycherley, The Country Wife
• Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
INDE2019 POPULAR ENGLISH LITERATURE
Arpine Mızıkyan Akfıçıcı
2 credits, 4 ECTS
The course aims at presenting the students with fictional material that exemplifies the popular ("low-brow")
reading material of Britain and through this, at tracing the cultural and social traditions that prevailed at
specific periods in history. The course will focus on detective fiction and will examine the relevance of this
genre to the tensions and issues prevalent during the time of publications of these works.
Texts
• Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
• Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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INDE2010 16TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
Arpine Mızıkyan Akfıçıcı
2 credits, 5 ECTS
This course focuses on the Elizabethan period and discusses the works of Elizabeth I, Thomas More,
Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Wyatt. The students are expected to attend class having read the necessary
material they have been provided with and to be ready to share their opinions with the class.
Background Reading
• Crane Brinton, The Shaping of Modern Thought
• E. M. W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture
Texts
• Elizabeth I, "On Monsieur's Departure"
• Elizabeth I, "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury"
• Thomas More, Utopia
• Thomas Wyatt, "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor"
• Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
INDE2011 SELECTED WORKS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Buket Akgün
4 credits, 5 ECTS, Elective
This course dwells on the definition and depiction of witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and its
reception and screen adaptations .
Written and Visual Texts
• Benjamin Christensen, dir., Häxan
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth
• Orson Welles, dir., Macbeth
• Akira Kurosawa, dir., Throne of Blood
• Nikolay Serebryakov, dir., Vladimir Morozov and Ildar Urmanche, des., Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
• Charles Palmer, dir., Gareth Roberts, writ., "The Shakespeare Code," Doctor Who
INDE2040 AUTHOR AND HIS/HER WORKS
Ayşegül Deniz Toroser Ateş
2 credits, 5 ECTS, Elective
This course will focus on a selection of works by Doris Lessing, showing how the author has contributed to the
literary canon and has progressively changed and developed as a writer, as seen in each consequent work.
Texts
• "England versus England"
• "Womb Ward"
• "A Room"
• "The Real Thing"
• The Fifth Child
Fourth Term
INDE2001 MILTON AND HIS TIME
Arpine Mızıkyan Akfıçıcı
4 credits, 8 ECTS
This course aims to offer the student an in-depth knowledge of the 17th century and more specifically the work
of John Milton, with an eye on the social and political developments of the period in question.
Texts
• John Donne, "The Canonization" and "The Flea"
• Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
• John Milton, Paradise Lost Books I and IX
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INDE2013 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
Ferah İncesu
4 credits, 6 ECTS
The course provides socio-historical, cultural and literary background of eighteenth century British society.
Prominent genres and canonical texts of the period are studied in class.
Texts
• A. Pope, Essay on Man
• D. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
• A. Pope, Essay on Criticism
• J. Hawkesworth, "The Story of Melissa"
• J. Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
• A. Pope, The Rape of the Lock
• Lord Shaftesbury, The Moralists
• E. Burke, "Of the Sublime and Beautiful"
• J. Reynolds, Discourses
• T. Gray, "Eton College"
• J. Thomson, The Seasons
INDE2018 ENGLISH COMPOSITION
Ayşegül Deniz Toroser Ateş
4 credits, 7 ECTS
This course involves a study on how to write a coherent and comprehensive critical paragraph or essay on a
specific text through studying a variety of text types such as the short story, critical essay, poetry and novel.
Texts
• Katherine Ann Porter, "Rope"
• Virginia Woolf, "Professions for Women"
• Aldous Huxley, from Brave New World
• John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
• James Joyce, "The Dead"
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
INDE2014 SHORT STORY
Esra Melikoğlu
4 credits, 6 ECTS, Elective
Beginning with an introduction of the development of the short story through the history of the genre, this
course studies various British stories from the modern and postmodern periods from the aspects of theme,
form and the reflection of the socio-political background upon them.
Texts
• E. A. Poe, Review of Twice-Told Tales
• Eds. James H. Pickering, James H. v.b., "What Is Fiction," Literature
• James Joyce, "A Little Cloud"
• Katherine Mansfield, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel"
• Virginia Woolf, "The New Dress"
• Doris Lessing, "The Old Chief Mshlanga"
• Hanif Kureishi, "My Son the Fanatic"
• Ian McEwan, "First Love, Last Rites"
• Elizabeth Bowen, "The Demon Lover"
INDE2037 LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Murat Seçkin
2 credits, 5 ECTS, Elective
This year we have to work towards the most sacred of all dates: The Midsummer Night on June 21, 2015. To do
this we will spend three weeks studying William Shakespeare's play and then we will read one Turkish
translations of the play and talk about its production history. Then I will expand on this theme further by
making you watch a Swedish version of the play and then an American version. Finally we will see an American
Musical Theatre adaption of the play (and there are many productions available).
Texts
• William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Can Yücel, Bahar Noktası
• Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night
• Woody Allen, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
• Stephen Sondheim, A Little Night Music
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Fifth Term
INDE3016 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
Buket Akgün
4 credits, 8 ECTS
The course introduces the students to the novel as a genre by offering a close reading of some of the first
examples of the English novel. Both the development of the genre and the different directions the authors
selected during this formative period of the genre come under scrutiny.
Texts
• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
• Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
INDE3031 INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM
Ferah İncesu
4 credits, 6 ECTS
This course aims to introduce the students to literary criticism and theory. Canonical texts are included from
the antiquity to the early twentieth century.
Texts
• Plato, Republic
• Aristotle, Poetics
• Plotinus, Eighth Ennead
• Sidney, "Apology for Poetry"
• Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare
• Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
• Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
• Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
• Eliot, "Hamlet and His Problems"
• Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy"
• Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetics
INDE3017 SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIME
Yıldız Kılıç
4 credits, 6 ECTS
The aim of this course is to discover Shakespeare through his texts: defining through detailed textual analysis,
not only the ideas of the writer and the cultural / social climate of his "Time," but also to discover through those
qualities inherent to his plays that which makes Shakespeare universal and "Timeless."
Texts
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Othello
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INDE3003 LITERARY STUDIES
Tuğba Hacaloğlu Tosun
4 credits, 6 ECTS, Elective
This course analyzes the works of theorists who have put the question of translation into discussion and
developed a new approach to the study of translation. In line with the discussion of various translation
theories, the students are required to do their own translations. The purpose of this course is to provide the
students with the skill to creatively render a text into another language. The students are expected to attend
class having read the necessary material they have been provided with and to be ready to share their opinions
with the class.
Texts
• Walter Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator"
• Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Misery and the Splendour of Translation"
• Vladimir Nabakov, "Problems of Translation: Onegin in English"
• Eugene Nida, "Principles of Correspondence"
• Gideon Toury, "The Nature And Role Of Norms In Translation"
• Hans J. Vermeer, "Skopos And Commission In Translational Action"
• Lori Chamberlain, "Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation"
• Michael Cronin, "Translation Goes to the Movies"
• Gayatri C. Spivak, "The Politics of Translation"
• Keith Harvey, "Translating Camp Talk: Gay Identities and Cultural Transfer"
• Lawrence Venuti, "Translation, Community, Utopia"
INDE3042 CULTURAL STUDIES
Ayşegül Deniz Toroser Ateş
2 credits, 6 ECTS, Elective
This course involves the study of major concepts in the field of cultural studies and an analysis of a variety of
texts through studying and discussions on cultural theory.
Texts
• Roland Barthes, "Soap Powders and Detergents" from Mythologies
• Roland Barthes, "Novels and Children" from Mythologies
• Snow White by Brothers Grimm
• Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"
• Walt Disney's animation Alice in Wonderland
• Jan Svankmajer's stop-motion film Alice
• Cinderella by Brothers Grimm
Sixth Term
INDE3022 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY
Ayşegül Deniz Toroser Ateş
4 credits, 6 ECTS
Various works representing the features of the nineteenth-century English literature as mainly exemplified
within the poetry of Romantic and Victorian poets will be studied in this course.
Texts
• William Blake, "London" and "The Chimney Sweeper"
• William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
• William Wordsworth, "The World is Too Much with Us"
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
• P. B. Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
• P. B. Shelley, "Ozymandias"
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Tithonus"
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INDE3021 CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM
Canan Şavkay
4 credits, 8 ECTS
This course discusses post-war theory and criticism. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Post-Colonialism,
Feminism etc. will be discussed and then applied to the interpretation of literary texts in relation to texts
analyzed in other courses and the students’ socio-cultural background.
Texts
• Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics
• Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic
Experience" and "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious"
• James Joyce, from Ulysses
• Jacques Derrida, from Of Grammatology
• Aeschylus, The Eumenides
• Edward Said, from Orientalism
• William Shakespeare, from The Tempest
• Luce Irigaray, "The Bodily Encounter with the Mother"
• Kate Atkinson, from Human Croquet
• Michael Kimmel, from "Invisible Masculinites"
• John Fowles, from The Magus
INDE3020 VICTORIAN NOVEL
Esra Melikoğlu
4 credits, 6 ECTS
The course aims at introducing the student to the Victorian novel and to how the genre develops in the 19th
century. Both the realist tradition in the English novel and examples of the novel that deviate from the tradition
for various reasons will be taken into consideration with reference to the social and political realities of the
period.
Texts
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• Charles Dickens, Hard Times
• Bram Stoker, Dracula
INDE3032 INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Tuğba Hacaloğlu Tosun
4 credits, 6 ECTS, Elective
The aim of this course is to develop students’ abilities to have an interdisciplinary viewpoint while reading and
writing about fiction analytically. We will examine a selection of 19th – 20th century literary works and various
contemporary movies and look at how they interact with a major philosophical movement of the
aforementioned period: existentialism. We will work on strategies for finding parallel patterns dealing with
some existential issues such as life/death, choice/free will, self/others.
Texts
• A. Poe, "William Wilson," "Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat"
• M. Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, "The Grand Inquisitor"
• F. Kafka, "The Judgment," "Before the Law," "In the Penal Colony"
• L. Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• S. Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape
• Camus, from The Myth of Sisyphus, "The Guest," "An Adulterous Woman"
• P. Sartre, No Exit, "The Wall"
• J. L. Borges, "The Waiting"
INDE3043 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Canan Şavkay
2 credits, 6 ECTS, Elective
This course focuses on three plays produced under the influence of World War II. Closely studying the works
written by a German (Brecht), a Swiss (Frisch) and a French (Sartre) writer, this course explores the central
problems these plays engage with.
Texts
• Berthold Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Max Frisch, The Fire Raisers
• Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies
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Seventh Term
INDE4002 MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA
Canan Şavkay
4 credits, 6 ECTS
This course focuses on various plays that have been influential in the development of English drama in the 20th
century. The plays will be discussed against their socio-historical background.
Texts
• Sean O'Casey, The Silver Tassie
• Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
• Harold Pinter, The Caretaker
• Joe Orton, The Good and Faithful Servant
• Edward Bond, Lear
• Caryl Churchill, Top Girls
INDE4025 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
Esra Melikoğlu
4 credits, 8 ECTS
The course aims at examining the social and political history of the age in question and to evaluate the impact
of this background on the development of the 20th-century novel in Britain. The issues connected with the
modernist movement are discussed and these are traced in specific novels through a close reading of the texts.
Texts
• Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
• James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• E. M. Forster, Howard's End
• Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• William Morris, News from Nowhere
INDE4023 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Ayşegül Deniz Toroser Ateş
4 credits, 6 ECTS
This course focuses on a study of women’s positions and socio-political stance in contemporary English novel
within political and psychoanalytical framework.
Texts
• Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
• Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
• Carol Shields, Unless
• Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
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INDE4024 EDWARDIAN LITERATURE
Yıldız Kılıç
2 credits, 4 ECTS, Elective
The course aims at examining the Edwardian period as preparing the ground for modernism. This period,
despite more confident and smug voices, was already characterised by voices expressing anxieties about sexual
identity, the industrial workers and servants at home and the colonised subject abroad, which led to the
Edwardians' ultimate fear that theirs was a civilisation on the wane.
Texts
• Thomas Hardy, "Men Who March Away" (1914)
• Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" (1918)
• Edward Thomas, "As The Team’s Head Brass" (1917)
• From J. S. Mill, On the Subjugation of Women (1869)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
• From George Meredith, Modern Love (1862)
• From George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1912)
• Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man’s Burden" (1899)
• Christina Rossetti, "Promises Like Pie-Crust" (1860)
• Christina Rossetti, "No, Thank You, John"
• William Morris, "The Defence of Guinevere" (1858)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "My Sister’s Sleep" (1847)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Jenny" (1870)
• From Walter Pater, The Renaissance (1873, 1880)
• Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
• Oscar Wilde, "The Disciple" (1893)
• From James Joyce, The Dubliners (1914) ("Araby")
INDE4047 AMERICAN SHORT STORY
Esra Melikoğlu
2 credits, 4 ECTS, Elective
The course teaches the students how to examine American stories within their historical context and analyzes
the American short stories in terms of racism.
Texts
• Jean Toomer, "Becky"
• James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues"
• Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
• Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"
• Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing"
INDE4044 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Esra Melikoğlu
2 credits, 6 ECTS, Elective
This course aims at teaching the students how to distinguish and interpret the descent to the underworld motif
in post-modern texts.
Texts
• John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
• Mary Shelley, "The Last Man"
• Harold Bloom, "Anxiety of Influence"
• A. S. Byatt, "Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye"
Eighth Term
INDE4026 RESEARCH TECHNIQUES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Buket Akgün
4 credits, 9 ECTS
This course discusses the adaptation and reception of English literature visual narratives such as analyzing
anime, films and comic books.
Written and Visual Texts
• Miyazaki, Hayao, Howl's Moving Castle
• David Yates, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Neil Gaiman, The Books of Magic
• Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Season of Mists
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INDE4027 CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH POETRY
Murat Seçkin
4 credits, 7 ECTS
In this course we shall study English poetry of the 20th century. The two world wars and their impact on the
poetic culture of the authors will be examined.
Texts
• T. S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"
• W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium"
• W. B. Yeats, "Easter 1916"
• W. H. Auden, " Musée des Beaux Arts"
• W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
• Edith Sitwell, "Aubade"
• Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum est"
• Vernon Scannell , "A Mask of Love"
• Philip Larkin, "Church Going"
• Thom Gunn, "In Santa Maria del Popolo"
• Ted Hughes, "An Otter"
INDE4029 POSTMODERN NOVEL
Yıldız Kılıç
4 credits, 7 ECTS
The Second World War is taken in this course as the catalytic starting point of postmodernism in the novel.
Following a chronological progression, from the 1940s to the 1990s, the English Postmodern novel is analyzed
in conjunction with an ongoing process of defining and re-defining the precepts of postmodern ideology.
Texts
• George Orwell, 1984
• Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
• William Golding, Lord of the Flies
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
INDE4032 CHAUCER AND HIS TIME
Buket Akgün
2 credits, 4 ECTS, Elective
This course analyzes the works of Geoffrey Chaucer against the social and cultural developments in the 14th
century.
Texts
• Excerpts from The Canterbury Tales
• Troilus and Criseyde
INDE4045 WESTERN LITERATURES
Arpine Mızıkyan Akfıçıcı
2 credits, 3 ECTS, Elective
This course illustrates the complex character of the servant figure in literature and history at large. Genet and
Kesselman were greatly influenced by the two French maids, The Papin sisters who murdered their employer's
wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on 2 February 1933. Moreover, the case has formed the basis of a
number of films and plays.
Texts
• Jean Genet, The Maids (Les Bonnes)
• Wendy Kesselman, My Sister in This House
INDE4053 PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH
Buket Akgün
2 credits, 4 ECTS, Elective
This course analyzes literary concepts, terminology and theory by providing an overview of all the
undergraduate courses.
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