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) |
They acquire theoretical, historical and aesthetic knowledge specific to their field by using methods and techniques related to performing arts (acting, dance, music, etc.). |
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2) |
They have knowledge about art culture and aesthetics and they provide the unity of theory and practice in their field. |
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3) |
They are aware of national and international values in performing arts. |
2 |
4) |
Abstract and concrete concepts of performing arts; can transform it into creative thinking, innovative and original works. |
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5) |
They have the sensitivity to run a business successfully in their field. |
3 |
6) |
Develops the ability to perceive, think, design and implement multidimensional from local to universal. |
3 |
7) |
They have knowledge about the disciplines that the performing arts field is related to and can evaluate the interaction of the sub-disciplines within their field. |
2 |
8) |
They develop the ability to perceive, design, and apply multidimensionality by having knowledge about artistic criticism methods. |
3 |
9) |
They can share original works related to their field with the society and evaluate their results and question their own work by using critical methods. |
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10) |
They follow English language resources related to their field and can communicate with foreign colleagues in their field. |
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11) |
By becoming aware of national and international values in the field of performing arts, they can transform abstract and concrete concepts into creative thinking, innovative and original works. |
3 |
12) |
They can produce original works within the framework of an interdisciplinary understanding of art. |
2 |
13) |
Within the framework of the Performing Arts Program and the units within it, they become individuals who are equipped to take part in the universal platform in their field. |
3 |
14) |
Within the Performing Arts Program, according to the field of study; have competent technical knowledge in the field of acting and musical theater. |
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15) |
They use information and communication technologies together with computer software that is at least at the Advanced Level of the European Computer Use License as required by the field. |
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