ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY
Department of English Language and Literature
2015-2016 Undergraduate Courses
First Term
The schedules for the general courses, namely "Atatürk's Principles and History of Revolution," "Turkish
Language," "Fine Arts" and "PE," may be attained 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 first-year students to English literature by presenting a survey 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 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Özlem Karadağ
4 credits, 7 ECTS
This course focuses on classical, Nordic, Celtic, Sumerian mythologies and the Old Testament. It aims at
introducing the first-year students to the concept of myth-making and the mythological characters, themes and
stories relevant to English literary texts.
Texts
• Roland Barthes, Mythologies
• Hesiod, "The Creation and the Early Gods" from Theogony
• Hesiod, "The Ages of Man" from Works and Days
• Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey
• Excerpts from The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Excerpts from Thomas Bulfinch's Bulfinch's Mythology
• Excerpts from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur
• Genesis, Exodus, Job, Judges from The Old Testament
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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 familiarise
them with key literary concepts and terms especially concerning the genre of the short story, poetry and
drama. The course introduces prominent approaches and techniques of literary text analysis.
Texts
• Akşit Göktürk, extracts from Okuma Uğraşı
• D.H. Lawrence, "The Last Laugh"
• Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party
• D.H. Lawrence, "River Roses"
INDE1038 FANTASY FICTION
Buket Akgün
2 credits, 4 ECTS
This course analyzes the works of English authors which have 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 AN OUTLINE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Ayşegül Deniz Toroser Ateş
4 credits, 7 ECTS
This course aims at introducing first-year students to English literature by presenting a survey of the literature
from the 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 of poetry, drama and prose. Closely analyzing the assigned poems, we will focus on features such
as rhythm, rhyme scheme, and 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
This course familiarises the students with the basic terminology especially of the novel, schools of literary
theory and criticism, and critical writing. It aims to enhance the students’ ability to comment on the novel, and
familiarises them with critical essays, doing research in print and internet sources, referencing styles,
composition types/methods, and qualified paragraphs. It underlines tenets of academic ethics, and cherishes
sensitivity to plagiarism.
Texts
• Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
• M. Fatih Esen and Alpaslan Toker, "Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim adlı eserindeki 'Merrie England' temalı
konuşma: Başarı mı veya Başarısızlık mı?"
• Gareth Jenkins, "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right—An Obituary of Kingsley Amis"
• Merritt Moseley, "Lucky Jim (1954)"
INDE1055 ENGLISH CIVILIZATION
Özlem Karadağ
2 credits, 5 ECTS
The aim of this course is to give the students an understanding of cultural studies and English culture, and an
ability to understand how to use cultural history in literary studies. Under the main title of English Civilisation
the course covers the progress of and changes in English history and culture by mainly focusing on the effects
of the art movements, and cultural progress in the 20th century.
Texts
• Simon Jenkins, A Short History of England
• Paul Cheshire, Kings and Queens: An Illustrated Guide
• Steve Blandford, Film, Drama and the Break Up of Britain
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
Yıldız Kılıç
2 credits, 4 ECTS
The course centres on the sub-genres of "Chick Lit" and "Lad Lit" as examples of current popular ("low-brow")
fiction. Through these texts changes pertaining to gender issues and cultural/social traditions are examined.
The relevance of these seemingly incongruous and glib texts on the tensions between gender ideology and
media practices are examined in the light of secondary material such as advertising and feminist tracts.
Texts
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Extract)
• Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’ Diary
• Nick Horby, All About a Boy
• Sophie Kinsella, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
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INDE2010 16TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
Özlem Karadağ
2 credits, 5 ECTS
This course focuses on the Elizabethan period and the English Renaissance and aims to come to an
understanding of the historical context of the era and the effects of the Renaissance, the Reformation and
Humanism on the culture and literature of the age.
Written and Visual Texts
• Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton, Shakespeare’s Britain
• Lisa Hopkins and Matthew Steggle, Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Elizabeth I, "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury"
• Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella
• Shakespeare, Sonnets No 18, 116
• Thomas More, Utopia
• Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta
• Kapur, Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
• Madden, Shakespeare in Love (1998)
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 examines the 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, extracts from Essay on Man
• D. Hume, extracts from A Treatise of Human Nature
• A. Pope, extracts from Essay on Criticism
• J. Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
• A. Pope, The Rape of the Lock
• J. Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
• Lord Shaftesbury, extracts from The Moralists
• E. Burke, "Of the Sublime and Beautiful"
• J. Reynolds, extracts from Discourses
• T. Gray, "Eton College"
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
The course aims to examine the theory of the short story and examples of the modern and post-modern short
story by placing them in their cultural context.
Texts
• E. A. Poe, Review of Twice-Told Tales
• Eds. James H. Pickering et al, "What Is Fiction," Literature
• Katherine Mansfield, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel"
• James Joyce, "A Little Cloud"
• Virginia Woolf, "The New Dress"
• Doris Lessing, "The Old Chief Mshlanga"
• Elizabeth Bowen, "The Demon Lover"
• Ian McEwan, "First Love, Last Rites"
INDE2037 LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Özlem Karadağ
2 credits, 5 ECTS, Elective
This course pursues interconnections linking text and performance focusing on the similarities/differences in
the written text of the playwright and visual, performative text of the director. Dramatic texts and their stage
and/or film adaptations will be studied in the light of the historical background of each version, and critical and
theoretical approaches.
Written and Visual Texts
• Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
• Matthew Dunster, Doctor Faustus
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Fifth Term
INDE3016 THE 18TH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
Buket Akgün
4 credits, 8 ECTS
The course introduces the student 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
Özlem Karadağ
4 credits, 6 ECTS
This course aims to introduce the student to literary criticism and theory; to prepare them for advanced
literary interpretation and the ability to compose critical writing. This course will examine literary texts in the
light of canonical literary theories and critical approaches from the antiquity to the early twentieth century.
This course will enable students to connect literary texts and critical approaches to their historical and social
contexts.
*Literary works are marked with an asterisk (*).
Texts
*Sophocles, Oedipus the King
• Aristotle, Poetics
• Plato, The Republic Book 10
• Horace, Ars Poetica
*Shakespeare, Hamlet
• Sir Philip Sidney, "The Defence of Poesy" ("An Apology for Poetry”)
• John Dryden, An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
*John Donne, "The Flea," Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
• Samuel Johnson, "On the Metaphysical Poets"
*William Wordsworth, "The Tables Turned" or excerpts from S. T. Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner"
• William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
• Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
• Matthew Arnold, "Culture and Anarchy"
• Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
• Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women Chapter II
• Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, "Shakespeare’s Sister"
• T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
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 aims to provide students with a variety of genres which will be discussed and analyzed through
Marxist, imagist, feminist, psychoanalytical, post-colonialist, and postmodernist readings.
Texts
• W. B. Yeats, "No Second Troy" and "Leda and the Swan"
• H. D., "Oread," "Heat" and "Leda"
• Isak Dinesen, "The Blue Stones"
• Christina Rosetti, "Goblin Market"
• Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim"
• John Cheever, "The Swimmer"
• Dylan Thomas, "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
• Sylvia Plath, "Daddy," "Lady Lazarus” and "Nick and the Candlestick"
• Ama Ata Aidoo, "The Girl Who Can"
• Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"
• Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
• Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Day before the Revolution"
• Jose Saramago, "The Tale of the Unknown Island"
• Paul Auster, City of Glass (illustrated edition)
• Philip K. Dick, "Imposter"
• Don DeLillo, White Noise
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 the study and discussion of 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 nineteenth-century English literature, as exemplified through the
poetry of the 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’ own 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 THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
Murat Seçkin
4 credits, 6 ECTS
The course aims at introducing the student to the Victorian novel and to show 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 and 20th-Century literary works and
various contemporary movies, and look at how they interact with the major philosophical movement
associated with 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
• E. A. Poe, "William Wilson," "Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Black Cat"
• M. F. Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, "The Grand Inquisitor"
• F. Kafka, "The Judgment," "Before the Law," and "In the Penal Colony"
• L. Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• S. Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape
• A. Camus, "The Guest" and "An Adulterous Woman"
• J. P. Sartre, No Exit and "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 with which these plays engage.
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 THE 20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
Esra Melikoğlu
4 credits, 8 ECTS
The course aims to examine how modernism shaped the English novel. Several examples of the modern English
novel are placed in their cultural context and discussed in terms of a modernist technique and theme.
Texts
• E. M. Forster, Howard's End
• Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
• James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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 the 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
INDE4044 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Esra Melikoğlu
2 credits, 6 ECTS, Elective
The course aims to examine in several twentieth-century poems images of the poet and approaches to art.
Texts
• Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California"
• Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
• Sylvia Plath, "The Disquieting Muse"
• Patrica Hampl, "Woman Before an Aquarium"
INDE4047 THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
Esra Melikoğlu
2 credits, 4 ECTS, Elective
The course aims to examine several American short stories in the context of the history of racism in American
culture.
Texts
• Jean Toomer, "Becky"
• James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues"
• Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
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INDE4024 EDWARDIAN LITERATURE
Arpine Mızıkyan Akfıçıcı
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 also 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, "Araby," The Dubliners (1914)
Eighth Term
INDE4026 RESEARCH TECHNIQUES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Buket Akgün
4 credits, 9 ECTS
This course discusses the reception of English literature in visual narratives through 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
INDE4027 CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH POETRY
Özlem Karadağ
4 credits, 7 ECTS
In this course we shall study English poetry of the 20th century. The two world wars, the contemporary world
and their impact on the poetic culture of the authors will be examined. A selection of poems will be studied
from various poets.
Texts
• Thomas Hardy, "In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’"
• W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium," "Adam’s Curse"
• W. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
• Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum est," "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
• T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
• Samuel Beckett, "Cascande," "Whoroscope"
• Philip Larkin, "The Trees"
• Ted Hughes, "The Seven Sorrows," "A Woman Unconscious"
• Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
• Elizabeth Bartlett, "Enemies," "Painting of a Bedroom with Cats"
• Kathleen Raine, "Ah, many, many, are the dead…"
• Carol Ann Duffy, "The Woman in the Moon"
• Eavan Boland, "Domestic Violence," "The War Horse"
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INDE4029 POSTMODERN ENGLISH 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.
Text
• Excerpts from The Canterbury Tales
INDE4045 WESTERN LITERATURES
2 credits, 3 ECTS, Elective
This course offers a survey of Western novel.
Texts
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From the Underground
• Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks
• Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
• Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
Murat Seçkin
INDE4053 PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH
Özlem Karadağ
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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