İDE401

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

3

6

Compulsory

English

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Undergraduate

This course, together with the follow-up course İDE402 Literary Theory and Criticism II, provides students with a strong foundation in the historical development and major turning points of western literary theories. It contributes to the formation of the theoretical infrastructure of the theoretical analyzes that students will make in İDE402. Starting with the meaning of literary theory, this course will examine the most important theories and theorists from the Classical Period to the 20th century.

Eagleton, Terry. "Introduction: What is Literature?" Literary Theory: An Introduction. Blackwell, 1996, pp. 1-14. Moran, Berna. "The Work of Art and Beauty." On Literature • Articles/Interviews. E-book, Contact. / Abrams, M. H. "Orientation of critical theories." 20th Century Literary Criticism • A Reader, edited by David Lodge, Routledge, 2013, pp. 1-26.
Richter, David H. Introduction. The Critical Tradition • Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, edited by David H. Richter, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007, pp. 1-13. / Leitch, Vincent B. Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Norton & Company Limited, W.W., 2018.

This course aims to provide students with basic knowledge about the nature and function of literary criticism.

1. Recognizing the concepts of literature, literary criticism and literary theory
2. To have knowledge about the major literary theories from the classical period to the 20th century
3. Understand well-written review articles

Week 1: Definition and scope of literature and literary criticism
Week 2: From mimetic to pragmatic/rhetorical theories: The Classical Period
Week 3: Plato and Aristotle
Week 4: Horace and Longinu
Week 5: Renaissance Period: A reinterpretation of ancient Greek philosophers: Sir Philip Sidney
Week 6: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: John Dryden
Week 7: Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson
Week 8: Expressive theories: Romanticism -• William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Week 9: Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Stuart Mill
Week 10: Toward formalist criticism: Literary Criticism in the Victorian Era -• Matthew Arnold
Week 11: Aestheticism -• Oscar Wilde
Week 12: Twentieth Century: Formalism and New Criticism

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Quizzes and/or assignments % 25
• Participation % 5