TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	3
SEMESTER	Sixth Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Assistant Professor Selen Aktari Sevgi
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) acquire theoretical and critical knowledge on modern American fiction, 2) analyze and discusses the contribution that each novelist of the period made to American fiction, 3) become fully familiar with the social, cultural, political, intellectual, historical, and literary context of modern American fiction, 4) are able to conduct further research on modern American fiction, 5) have historical and literary knowledge on American life and society as reflected in modern American fiction.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION	This course offers a study of selected American novels with emphasis on literary modernism and twentieth century aesthetics, and discusses major historical, social and cultural developments and the main philosophical and ideological perspectives that emerged in this period. The aim of the course is to examine the ways in which modern American writers dealt with the fundamental issues of their time and how they reflected, by employing a variety of literary forms and styles, their concerns and anxieties about the social upheavals they had witnessed.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week General introduction: The rise of modernism, and modernism in literature; a social, cultural, political, intellectual and literary overview of America from the early 1920s to the 1960s. 2nd Week Ernest Hemingway's fiction; a study of The Sun Also Rises. 3rd Week Hemingway (Continued). 4th Week F. Scott Fitzgerald's critique of the myth of the so-called "American Dream;" a study of The Great Gatsby. 5th Week Introduction to William Faulkner's fiction of the American deep South; stream of consciousness, social criticism, the plight and psychology of the underprivileged white and working class; 6th Week Faulkner continued: A study of his novel As I Lay Dying. 7th Week Miderm Examination 8th Week Steinbeck's fiction of political radicalism, labour movements, and the deconstruction of the American Edenic myth; A study of In Dubious Battle. 9th Week Steinbeck (Continued). 10th Week The post-war generation and the Beat culture; J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye. 11th Week Salinger (Continued). 12th Week Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man), Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird), and James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time). 13th Week (Continued) 14th Week (Continued); Wrap-up.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Bendixen, Alfred, ed. A Companion to the American Novel. Wiley, 2012. Müller, Timo, ed. Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. De Gruyter, 2017. Young, Thomas Daniel, Modern American Fiction: Form and Function. Louisiana State UP, 1989. Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945: A Critical History. Twayne Publishers, 1990. Yates, Norris W. ?What Makes the Modern American Novel Modern?? Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, Bd. 11 (1966), pp. 59-68. Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern American Novel. Oxford UP, 1983. Dickstein, Morris. Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Harvard UP, 2002. Donald, Miles. The American Novel in the Twentieth Century. Barnes, 1978. Gold, Herbert. Fiction of the Fifties: A Decade of American Writing. Doubleday, 1959. Hendin, Josephine. A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture. Blackwell, 2004. Kershner, R. B. The Twentieth Century Novel: An Introduction. Bedford Books, 1971. Podhoretz, Norman. Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing. Farrar-Straus, 1964. Schaub, Thomas. American Fiction in the Cold War. Wisconsin UP, 1991. Tanner, Tony. City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970. Harper and Row, 1987. Taylor, Welford Dunaway. Sherwood Anderson. F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1977. Crowley, John W. ed. New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Spiegel, Alan. ?A Theory of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction.? The Georgia Review, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter 1972), pp. 426-437. Wagner-Martin, Linda, ed. New Essays on The Sun Also Rises. Cambridge University Press, 1987. Fenstermaker, John. `Hemingway's Modernism: Exploring Its Victorian Roots.? South Atlantic Review, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 77-92. Callahan, John F. ?F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving American Dream: The "Pursuit of Happiness" in Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and The Last Tycoon.? Twentieth Century Literature. Vol. 42, No. 3 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 374-395. Carringer, Robert L. "Citizen Kane", "The Great Gatsby", and Some Conventions of American Narrative. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter, 1975), pp. 307-325. Fruscione, Joseph. ?Hemingway, Faulkner and the Clash of Reputations.? New England Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2012), pp. 62-79. Friedman, Alan Warren. William Faulkner. F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1984. Hoffman, Frederick John. William Faulkner. 2nd ed. Twayne Publishers, 1960. French, Warren. John Steinbeck's Fiction Revisited. Twayne Publishers, 1994. Levant, Howard. The Novels of John Steinbeck: A Critical Study. U of Missouri P, 1974. Lisca, Peter. The Wide World of John Steinbeck. Rutgers University Press, 1958. Grunwald, Henry Anatole. Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait. Harper, 1962. Gwynn, Frederick L. The Fiction of J. D. Salinger. U of Pittsburgh P, 1979. Hersey, John. Ralph Ellison: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974. Watts, Gafio Jerry. Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life. U of North Carolina P, 1994. Johnson, Claudia Durst. Understanding To Kill A Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources and Historic Documents. Greenwood Press, 1994. Bloom, Harold, ed. James Baldwin. Chelsea House, 2006. McBride, Dwight A., ed. James Baldwin Now. New York UP, 1999.
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 4 56 Preparation for Final exam 1 12 12 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 12 12 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 2 2 Homework 1 12 12 Article Presentation 1 12 12 Total Workload 150 Total Workload / 30 5 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No