At the end of this course, the students; 1) define literary terms, genres, and figures of speech by providing examples, 2) identify the elements that make up a literary genre and infer their contribution to the literary text, 3) explicate a text given by using literary terms, figures of speech, and elements of a literary genre.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION
This course aims to familiarize students with major literary genres such as poetry, narrative, and drama and to introduce basic literary terminology and figures of speech necessary for textual analysis. The students will learn how to critically approach a specific literary genre, practice close reading and evaluate a literary text by putting the knowledge of literary terms they have acquired into practice.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Introduction to the course and overview of the syllabus;
An introduction to literary studies, definitions of literature, text, fiction and non-fiction, prose, poetry, drama
2nd Week
Types of prose (short story, novella, story or tale, fable, saga, legend, myth, novel); Elements of prose fiction (plot, elements of plot, types of characters, characterization, types of point of view, suspense, conflict, flashback, theme, motif, symbol, setting, anaphora)
3rd Week
Example short stories: Kate Chopin "Story of an Hour," Edgar Allan Poe "Masque of the Red Death"
4th Week
Example short stories: Sandra Cisneros "Barbie-Q" Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants," Langston Hughes "Salvation," X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia "Writing about a Story"
5th Week
Types of non-fiction (journal, memoir, biography, autobiography, essay, travel literature)
Examples of non-fiction: Armin Brott "Not All Men Are Sly Foxes," Judy Brady Syfers "I Want a Wife"
6th Week
Elements of poetry and poetic terms (poetry, verse, stanza, line, couplet, persona, irony, imagery)
Example poems: Robert Frost "Road Not Taken" Wilfred Owen "Dulce et Decorum Est"
7th Week
Midterm examination
8th Week
Poetic terms continued (figures of speech: metaphor, simile, conceit, apostrophe, allegory, metonymy, synecdoche, oxymoron, ekphrasis, allusion)
Example poems: John Dryden "A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning," Sylvia Plath "Metaphors" Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias" Katharyn Howd Machan "Leda's Sister and the Geese"
9th Week
Musical Devices (alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia)
Example poems: Edgar Allan Poe "Alone" Walt Whitman "Beat! Beat! Drums!"
10th Week
Rhyme and Meter (types of rhyme, rhyme scheme, types of meter, accent, foot, caesura)
Example poems: Gwendolyn Brooks "We Real Cool," W.H. Auden "Musee des Beaux Arts" Emily Dickinson "Because I could not stop for Death"
11th Week
Example poems: Adrienne Rich "Diving into the Wreck," Robert Frost "After Apple Picking"
X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia "Writing About a Poem"
12th Week
Elements of drama (drama, theatre, play, act, scene, line, stage directions, silent action, gesture, mimic, mimesis, farce, in medias res, closet drama, dramatic irony)
13th Week
Example play: Susan Glaspell Trifles
14th Week
Example play: James Baldwin Blues for Mister Charlie,
X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia "Writing about a Play"
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Tenth Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012.
Kennedy, X. J. and Dana Gioia, eds. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Compact edition, HarperCollins, 1995.
Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies, Routledge, 2004.
Jago, Carl et al. Literature and Composition: Reading, Writing, Thinking, Bedford, 2011.
Rainsford, Dominic. Studying Literature in English: An Introduction, Routledge, 2014.
Sullivan, Jenny. Writing Themes About Literature, Norton, 1983.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
Lecture,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Quantity
Percentage(%)
Mid-term
1
30
Assignment
3
15
Presentation of Article
1
15
Total(%)
60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
40
Total(%)
100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities
Number
Hours
Workload
Midterm exam
1
2
2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
14
3
42
Preparation for Final exam
1
20
20
Course hours
14
3
42
Preparation for Midterm exam
1
20
20
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
1
2
2
Homework
3
6
18
Article Presentation
1
4
4
Total Workload
150
Total Workload / 30
5
ECTS Credits of the Course
5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)
No
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES (KLO) / MATRIX OF LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO)
