At the end of this course, the students; 1) explore the intersection between memory studies and literature, 2) discuss the concept of memory in relation to different cultural contexts, 3) analyze the workings of memory in a literary text.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION
This course outlines key approaches to understanding the construction of memory in relation to social, cultural, and political forces. Beginning with a discussion of the history of the concept of memory, it examines literary representations of memory with a particular attention to the themes of nationalism, transculturalism, trauma, immigration.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Introduction: Memory Studies as an academic field
2nd Week
The history of the concept of memory
3rd Week
Classic and contemporary perspectives on memory
4th Week
Contemporary perspectives on memory
5th Week
Collective and cultural memory
6th Week
Memory and history
7th Week
Midterm exam
8th Week
Memory and nationalism
9th Week
Memory and transculturalism
10th Week
Memory and transculturalism
11th Week
Memory and immigration
12th Week
Memory and trauma
13th Week
Memory and trauma
14th Week
Revision
15th Week
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Assmann, Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives. 1999. Translated by Aleida Assmann and David Henry Wilson. Cambridge UP, 2011. Bond, Lucy, and Jessica Rapson, editors. Introduction. The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders. De Gruyter, 2014 Bond, Lucy, Stef Craps, Pieter Vermeulen, editors. Introduction. Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies. Berghahn Books, 2016. Crownshaw, Rick, editor. Introduction. Transcultural Memory. Routledge, 2013. Creet, Julia. Editor. Introduction. Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies. edited by Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann. University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp. 3-26. Erll, Astrid. Memory in Culture. Translated by Sara B. Young, Palgrave, 2011 Erll, Astrid, and Ann Rigney, editors. ?Introduction: Cultural Memory and its Dynamics.? Meditation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory. De Gruyter, 2009, pp. 1?11. Halbwachs, Maurice. The Collective Memory. Translated by Francis J. Ditter, Jr. and Vida Yazdi Ditter. Harper & Row, 1980. Kamali, Leila. The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970?2000. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Nora, Pierre. 'Between Memory and History: Les Lieux De Memoire.' Representations, no. 26, 1989, pp. 7?24. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2928520. Phillips, Caryl. Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11. The New Press, 2011. Schulze-Engler, Frank. Introduction. Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities. Edited by Frank Schulze-Engler and Sissy Helff. Rodopi, 2008, pp. ix?xvi Welsch, Wolfgang. 'Transculturality: the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today.' Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World. Edited by Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash. Sage, 1999. pp.194?213.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Quantity
Percentage(%)
Mid-term
1
30
Assignment
1
15
Quiz
1
10
Other
1
5
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
1
3
3
Individual or group work
14
4
56
Preparation for Final exam
1
5
5
Course hours
14
3
42
Preparation for Midterm exam
1
4
4
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
1
2
2
Homework
1
4
4
Quiz
1
4
4
Total Workload
122
Total Workload / 30
4,06
ECTS Credits of the Course
4
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)
No
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES (KLO) / MATRIX OF LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO)
