Course Objectives: |
This course is designed to explore various techniques and strategies of writing fiction through in dept reading and structural examination of major literary works. The purpose of this course is to focus on creative fiction in mainly novels and short stories but poetry, (auto) biography and to improve the ability of writing through analyzing the examples of literary genres in a detailed way. |
Course Content: |
What is Literature? The relationship between literature and the life.
Introduction to Literary Genres: The novel, the short story, the poetry, the biography, etc.
The Process of Writing: Focusing on the life stories and the adventures of writing of the authors. Analyzing/Criticizing/Interpretation: Reading, discussing and interpreting of selected literary works.
Narrative Techniques and Components: Narrator, characters, implied readers, narrative time, narration time, voice, focusing, places, etc.
Creative Writing Exercises: Several methods of construction, development of creative work and completion of it. |
Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
General information about the course, the methods to be used. |
The course syllabus |
2) |
Discussion of literature.
What is literature? What is its effects in our daily lives? What it means to be a writer?
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Jean Paul Sartre, Edebiyat Nedir? |
3) |
The process of writing.
Focusing on the life stories and the adventures of writing of the authors. |
Visiting several authors’websites and blogs.
Orhan Pamuk “Babamın Bavulu”
Elif Şafak “Nasıl Yazar Olunur?”
The interview of Murathan Mungan
Ferit Edgü, “Sanatçının Tarifi”
Cemal Süreya’ya Dair: “Nasıl Şair Olunur? Hangi Yaşta Şair Olunur?”
Orhan Tuncay, “Bir Fenomen Olarak Kafka”
Selahattin Çiftçi, “Dostoyevski’nin Kumarbaz Eserinin Hayat-Eser Açısından İncelenmesi”
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4) |
The process of writing.
Focusing on the life stories and the adventures of writing of the authors.
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Umberto Eco, Genç Bir Romancının İtirafları |
5) |
The process of writing.
Focusing on the life stories and the adventures of writing of the authors.
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Nurdan Gürbilek, Benden Önce Bir Başkası
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anlatmak İçin Yaşamak
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6) |
A conversation with an author
(The guest author is to be announced)
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To search the guest author and prepare the possible questions. |
7) |
Introduction to Literary Genres |
Definition and distinctive features of literary genres such as novel, short stories, poetry, (auto) biography, memory, theatre |
8) |
The Examples of Short Story |
Anton Chekov, “Vanka”
Guy de Maupassant, “Küçük Çan”
Edgar Allan Poe, “Metaforik Bir Cinayet Öyküsü”
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9) |
Textual Analyzing
Narrative Techniques and Components
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Franz Kafka, Dönüşüm |
10) |
The Adaptation and Reinterpretation |
From Literature to Cinema: Zorba |
11) |
Textual Analyzing
Narrative Techniques and Components
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Fyodor Mihailoviç Dostoyevski, Yer Altından Notlar |
12) |
İlk taslağı oluşturma |
Writing of the first draft |
13) |
Creative Writing Exercises |
Completion of the first draft |
14) |
Creative Writing Exercises |
Finalization of the first draft |
Course Notes / Textbooks: |
Pelin Aslan tarafından derlenen GEP 1206 kitabı
Jean Paul Sartre, Edebiyat Nedir? İstanbul: Can, 2005.
Genç Bir Romancının İtirafları, Umberto eco, Çev. İlknur Özdemir, İstanbul: Kırmızı Kedi, 2011.
Nurdan Gürbilek, Benden Önce Bir Başkası, İstanbul: Metis, 2011.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anlatmak İçin Yaşamak, İstanbul: Can, 2009.
Franz Kafka, Dönüşüm, İstanbul: Can, 2011.
Fyodor Mihailoviç Dostoyevski, Yer Altından Notlar, İstanbul: Can, 2011.
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References: |
Pınar Kür (ed), Short Fiction in English, İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2001.
Murat Gülsoy, Büyübozumu: Yaratıcı Yazarlık, İstanbul: Can, 2011. |