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 |
1) |
Revision of the 19th Century poetry, especially of Whitman & Dickinson and Introduction to Modernism |
Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol II. |
2) |
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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3) |
T.S. Eliot |
The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, Journey of the Magi |
4) |
Robert Frost |
Mending Wall, Out Out- , Design, The Road Not Taken, Fire & Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Gift Outright |
5) |
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. |
6) |
William Carlos Williams |
Poem, Spring and All, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Dance, This Is Just to Say, Death |
7) |
Wallace Stevens |
Sunday Morning, Snowman, Emperor of Ice-Cream, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
8) |
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. |
10) |
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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11) |
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. |
12) |
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). |
14) |
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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15) |
Final Exam |
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16) |
Final Exam |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
1) |
As a world citizen, she is aware of global economic, political, social and ecological developments and trends. |
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2) |
He/she is equipped to closely follow the technological progress required by global and local dynamics and to continue learning. |
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3) |
Absorbs basic economic principles and analysis methods and uses them to evaluate daily events. |
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4) |
Uses quantitative and statistical tools to identify economic problems, analyze them, and share their findings with relevant stakeholders. |
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5) |
Understands the decision-making stages of economic units under existing constraints and incentives, examines the interactions and possible future effects of these decisions. |
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6) |
Comprehends new ways of doing business using digital technologies. and new market structures. |
2 |
7) |
Takes critical approach to economic and social problems and develops analytical solutions. |
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8) |
Has the necessary mathematical equipment to produce analytical solutions and use quantitative research methods. |
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9) |
In the works he/she contributes, observes individual and social welfare together and with an ethical perspective. |
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10) |
Deals with economic problems with an interdisciplinary approach and seeks solutions by making use of different disciplines. |
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11) |
Generates original and innovative ideas in the works she/he contributes as part of a team. |
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