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School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

Urbanization, which accelerated in the 19th century as a result of the Industrial Revolution and technological developments, led to a new trend in literature. has enabled the emergence of a field of study. Bringing together people from different classes, cultures and races the polyphonic identity of cities and the relationship of modern man, who seeks his own voice in this crowd, with cities constitutes the main field of study.

1. If we are flâneurs, can we be cosmopolitans? Author: Bart van Leeuwen. // 2.: Cities in Modernist Literature.
Author: Katherine Mullin. // 3. Modernism and its Aftermath in Urban Culture in Flaneur Thought (Ayrıntı Publishing)
Re-reading the Flaneur as the "Observing Subject". Author: Nilnur Tandaçgüneş. // 4. A Body Passes By: The
flâneur and the Senses in Nineteenth Century London and Paris. Author: Estelle Murail. // 5. Here Again is The
The Usual Door: The Modernity of Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting". // 6.: Flaneur Thought (Ayrıntı Publishing)
in The Literary Etiology of Flaneur Flaneurism in World Literature. Author Ahmet Sari // 7. Idle Man • Yusuf
Atılgan. // 8. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Can Publishing) Translated by Sabri Gürses. // 9.
(Can Publications). Author: Henry David Thoreau (translated by Selçuk Işık). // 10. Dubliners (Everest Publishing). Author: James
Joyce (trans: Mustafa Bal). // 11. Imagining the Modern City: James Joyce's Dubliners. Author: Valentine
Georgescu. // 12. Rotten Architecture, But Wonderful Gargoyles": The Murky World Of London And Charles
Dickens Aesthetic SignPosts. Author: Neil Addison. // 13. Articles: "The Cities Of Dubliners", "Dublin: The
Beauty of Entrophy." // 14. Umberto Eco's History of Mythical Places and Alberto Manguel and Gianni
Guadalupi's Dictionary of Imaginary Places.

The aim of this course is to provide students with knowledge of different literary cultures and to give them the ability to make comparisons between English literature and the literature of other cultures, as well as to provide students with a critical perspective and to gain insight into the main dynamics of literary works (plot, characterization, etc.). to comprehend the ways of production.

1. To analyze the depictions of cities in literature and the effects of cities on literature.
2. To read and recognize important works and writers from world literature on the theme of the city.
3. To analyze the relationship between literature and the city. to read scientific articles analyzing literary works.
4. To be able to produce analytical approaches to literary works.
5. Different social and historical background information about the periods in which literary works in cultures were written to learn.
6. To conduct research on the phenomenon of the city, which is one of the important elements of fiction.

Week 1: Introduction to the course; The concept of the first traveler of modern urban culture Flâneur (Flaneur/Flannöz); evaluation of the flaneur spirit and flaneur thought on the axis of literature and the city
Week 2: Early periods of urbanization (19th century): especially By introducing European cities such as London, Paris and Berlin, the phenomenon of modernity that emerged as a result of the ruptures created by the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution all over the world
Week 3: Loneliness in a crowd: Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Man of The Crowd
Week 4: Virginia Woolf's essay Street Haunting: A London Adventure
Week 5: Flaneur by reading Sait Faik Abasıyanık's short story "A Point on the Map evaluation of the works within the framework of the concept, spirit and thought
Week 6: Flaneur's Therapy Walking (with students A city walk is planned to be organized together. Places to visit: Passages, historical and storied places, parks)
Week 7: Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Dickens' London
Week 8: Joyce's Dublin
Week 9: In Literature fictional/ imaginary cities
Week 10: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (Italian Literature)
Week 11: Pedro by Juan Rulfo Páramo (Mexican Literature)
Week 12: Macondo by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian Literature)

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Quizzes 20 %
• Participation 10 %