School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature
Course Credit
ECTS Credit
Course Type
Instructional Language
Programs that can take the course
Students can work in different themes and styles read and analyze various short stories. In the course, only short stories written by British authors will be read and analyzed. Not only stories but also prominent writers from world literature and their works are analyzed.
Textbook and / or References
"Sredni Vashtar" • Saki; "The Lottery" • Shirley Jackson; "Mr. Know All" • S. Maugham; "The Gift of the Magi" -
O. Henry, "The Overcoat" • N. Gogol, "The Oval Portrait" • Edgar Allan Poe, "A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings" • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Bloodstained Pavement" • Agatha Christie, "Araby" • James Joyce ///
Helpful Sources: 1. "Challenging Anthropocentrism: Saki's Use of Animism in His 'Sredni Vashtar'" by
Adem Balcı. DTCF Journal, 58: 1, 2018, pp. 270-282.
2. "'The Lottery' as Misogynist Parable" by Gayle Whittier. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal,
Volume 18, 1991, pp. 353-366.
3. "A Study of Metacognition on O. Henry's 'The Gift of the Magi'" by Tai-An Lin. Asian Social Science, Vol. 6,
No. 4; April 2010, pp. 49-54.
4. "Meanings and Indeterminacy in Gogol's The Overcoat" by Victor Brombert. Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Society, Vol. 135, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 569-575.
5. "Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Oval Portrait': Fusion of Multiple İDEntities" by Robert N. Mollinger. American
Imago, Vol. 36, No. 2 (SUMMER, 1979), pp. 147-153.
6. "A Post-colonial Study of the Short Story 'Araby' (1914) by James Joyce" by Pedram Maniee and Shahriyar
Mansouri. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2017, 8, 2, pp. 201-208.
This course aims to learn the short story as a literary genre. Students will learn the characteristics of short stories as well as as well as learn about world-renowned short story writers.
1. Sufficient knowledge (at undergraduate level) about the basic features, roots and developmental stages of the short story genre to have.
2. To be able to produce analytical approaches to important stories of the genre.
3. To be able to analyze the basic identify specific features of fictional dynamics.
4. To be able to analyze some stories in relation to the periods in which they were written. learn social and historical background information.
Week 1: Introduction to the Short Story: Theory and Related Terms
Week 2: Introduction to the Short Story: Theory and Related Terms
Week 3: Introduction to the Short Story: Theory and Related Terms
Week 4: "Sredni Vashtar" • Saki
Week 5: "The Lottery" • Shirley Jackson
Week 6: "Mr. Know- All" • S. Maugham
Week 7: "The Gift of the Magi" • O. Henry
Week 8: "The Overcoat" • N. Gogol
Week 9: "The Oval Portrait" • Edgar Allan Poe
Week 10: "A Very Old Man with enermous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Week 11: "The Bloodstained Pavement" • Agatha Christie
Week 12: "Araby" • James Joyce
Tentative Assesment Methods
• Midterm 30 %
• Reading Quizzes 30 %
• Final 40 %
|
Program Outcome
*
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
|
Course Outcome
|
|---|
| 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|