İDE202

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Compulsory

English

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Undergraduate

In this course, students will learn about the social and political changes in Britain in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. understand the contribution of changes to works of literature.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Tenth Edition. Volume Two.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture, Cambridge UP, 2010.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics, Cambridge UP, 2022.

This course aims to examine the development of English literature from the Victorian period to the present day. Throughout the course, students will learn about major literary movements, prominent writers and poets of the periods, and
read a selection of works reflecting the characteristics of each period.

1. To learn the historical background of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
2. Recognize important works of literature from the specified centuries
3. To have knowledge about the literary movements that emerged in the specified centuries
4. To understand the changing conceptions of art in every period depending on the political and social atmosphere

Week 1: Introduction Review of Art Conceptions of Previous Centuries
Week 2: The Victorian Era: Historical, Social and Literary Background. "industrialization" "urbanization" "women's issue" "labor problem" "modernization" "utilitarianism" "abolitionist movements"
Week 3: Victorian Poetry: Main features and movements. Tennyson, "Lady of Shalott", Feminist voices: C. Rossetti, "Promises like Pie Crust"
Week 4: Dramatic Monologue: R. Browning "Porphyria's Lover", Lyric Poetry: M. Arnold, "Dover Beach", Sonnet: E. B. Browning "How Do I Love Thee?"
Week 5: The Victorian Novel: Basic features and movements. Gothic: C. Brontë, excerpts from Jane Eyre, Social realism Excerpts from Middlemarch
Week 6: Dickens Realism: Excerpts from Great Expectations, Naturalism: T. Hardy excerpts from Jude the Obscure
Week 7: 20TH CENTURY: Historical, Social, Literary Background. "modernism" "alienation" "individualism", "fragmentation" "World Wars"
Week 8: 20th Century Poetry: Basic characteristics and movements. War Poetry T. Hardy "Channel Firing"
Week 9: Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot "Love Song of A. Prufrock" Irish voices: W. B. Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium"
Week 10: 20th Century Novel: Basic features and movements. Modernism Excerpts from J. Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Week 11: Feminist Approach: Excerpts from V. Woolf To The Lighthouse, Postmodern Roman: J. Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman
Week 12: 20th Century Theater: Main features and movements. Fin de siecle: O. Wilde from Importance of Being Earnest excerpts, B. Shaw excerpts from Pygmalion, Theater of the Absurd: Beckett excerpts from Waiting for Godot

• Midterm Exam 1 30 %
• Midterm Exam 2 30 %
• Final 40 %