İDE313

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

In this course, students will learn about the changing social, political, historical, philosophical and cultural characteristics of the period and literary genres. will learn about their traditions. Read and analyze featured poems and learn about the major poets. will gain knowledge.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Thomas C. Foster. English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century. Second Revised Edition
Peter Childs. The Twentieth Century in Poetry. Routledge, 1999.

This course aims to provide an in-depth analysis of English prose and poetry in the first half of the twentieth century.

1. Students will have knowledge about poetry movements, important poets and poems developed in the 20th century.
2. Students will be able to analyze the major social, political and cultural developments in Britain and Europe in the 20th century and have knowledge about the manifestations of these developments in poetry
3. Students will be able to recognize and distinguish between the various poetry movements of the 20th century.
4. Students will be able to analyze and interpret various 20th century poems

Week 1: Twentieth Century: historical, political, philosophical, cultural, intellectual developments
Week 2: Thomas Hardy
Week 3: A. E. Housman
Week 4: War poets: Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen
Week 5: W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence
Week 6: T. S. Eliot
Week 7: Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith
Week 8: W. H. Auden
Week 9: Dylan Thomas
Week 10: Philip Larkin
Week 11: Ted Hughes
Week 12: Seamus Heaney

• Midterm Exam 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Reading Logs 15 %
• Quizzes 15 %