Language of instruction: |
English |
Type of course: |
Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: |
Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
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Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face
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Course Coordinator : |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: |
none |
Course Objectives: |
This course aims at giving the students a background to modernism with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and others, and move to more experimental movements like imagism, confessional and Beat poetry and the Harlem Renaissance to analyze the poetry namely by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W.C. Williams, R. Frost, W. Stevens, M. Moore, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, E. Bishop, A. Rich, S. Plath, A. Sexton, A. Ginsberg, others up to the 1970s. |
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Subject |
Related Preparation |
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Revision of the 19th Century poetry, especially of Whitman & Dickinson and Introduction to Modernism |
Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol II. |
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Modernism & Naturalism: Stephen Crane & Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Crane: In the Desert (from The Black Riders), ‘A Newspaper is a Collection of Half-Injustices’ (from War is Kind)
Robinson: Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy, Eros Turannos
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T.S. Eliot |
The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, Journey of the Magi |
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Robert Frost |
Mending Wall, Out Out- , Design, The Road Not Taken, Fire & Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Gift Outright |
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Imagism & Ezra Pound |
In a Station of the Metro, Portrait d’un Femme, The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, A Pact, The Rest, Cantos. |
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William Carlos Williams |
Poem, Spring and All, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Dance, This Is Just to Say, Death |
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Wallace Stevens |
Sunday Morning, Snowman, Emperor of Ice-Cream, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
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Review |
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9) |
Hart Crane |
At Melville’s Tomb, Chaplinesque (Written after Charles Chaplin’s film The Kid , 1921); from Voyages No I, ; To Brooklyn Bridge. |
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Marianne Moore & Theodore Roethke |
Moore: Poetry, The Past is the Present, New York, A Grave, The Student, In Distrust of Merits
Roethke: Root Cellar, My Papa’s Waltz, The Waking, I Knew a Woman
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e.e. cummings |
l(a , she being Brand, next to of course god america i; thy fingers make early flowers of, in Just-, anyone lived in a pretty bow town, Buffalo Bill’s, my sweet old etcetera, since feeling is first, o sweet spontaneous, somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond; spring is a perhaps hand. |
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Langston Hughes & Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem, Same in Blues, Weary Blues, Theme for English B |
13) |
Adrienne Rich |
Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck, Living in Sin, Rape, Storm Warnings, Face to Face, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (after John Donne’s poem). |
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Confessional Poetry |
John Berryman: Dream Songs 14, 29, 76, A Professor’s Song.
Robert Lowell: Skunk Hour, To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage, Mr. Edwards and the Spider, Eye and Tooth.
Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Guardian, Elm, Mirror, Metaphors, Morning Song, Lady Lazarus, Ariel, Edge,Words.
Anne Sexton: The Kiss, Lobster, You, Dr. Martin, All My Pretty Ones, Sylvia’s Death.)
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Final Exam |
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Final Exam |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
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To have a grasp of basic mathematics, applied mathematics and theories and applications in Mathematics |
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To be able to understand and assess mathematical proofs and construct appropriate proofs of their own and also define and analyze problems and to find solutions based on scientific methods, |
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To be able to apply mathematics in real life with interdisciplinary approach and to discover their potentials, |
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To be able to acquire necessary information and to make modeling in any field that mathematics is used and to improve herself/himself, |
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To be able to tell theoretical and technical information easily to both experts in detail and non-experts in basic and comprehensible way, |
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To be familiar with computer programs used in the fields of mathematics and to be able to use at least one of them effectively at the European Computer Driving Licence Advanced Level,
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To be able to behave in accordance with social, scientific and ethical values in each step of the projects involved and to be able to introduce and apply projects in terms of civic engagement, |
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To be able to evaluate all processes effectively and to have enough awareness about quality management by being conscious and having intellectual background in the universal sense, |
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By having a way of abstract thinking, to be able to connect concrete events and to transfer solutions, to be able to design experiments, collect data, and analyze results by scientific methods and to interfere, |
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To be able to continue lifelong learning by renewing the knowledge, the abilities and the competencies which have been developed during the program, and being conscious about lifelong learning, |
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To be able to adapt and transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of mathematics ; such as algebra, analysis, number theory, mathematical logic, geometry and topology to the level of secondary school, |
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To be able to conduct a research either as an individual or as a team member, and to be effective in each related step of the project, to take role in the decision process, to plan and manage the project by using time effectively. |
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