İDE402

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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6

Compulsory

English

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Undergraduate

The course, which introduces the basic philosophy and principles of literary theories that have emerged from the 20th century to the present day, is divided into theoretical knowledge and practice. The application of the theories will be exemplified on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Within the scope of the course; major literary theories and schools ranging from structuralism to eco-criticism will be introduced.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. New York & London: Garland, 1999.
Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, 4th ed. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2017.

This course aims to introduce the literary theories that have emerged from the 20th century to the present day and to enable students to gain the practice of applying these theories on a literary text.

1. To have knowledge about major literary theories
2. To bring different interpretations to the texts in the light of different literary theories
3. Understand well-written review articles
4. Writing a review on a literary work

Week 1: Introduction: Development of 20th century theories of criticism
Week 2: Structuralism: *Ferdinand de Saussure, *Roland Barthes, *Jacques Lacan, *Lévi-Strauss
Week 3: Post-structuralism: *Jacques Derrida, *Roland Barthes
Week 4: Post-structuralism continued: *Michel Foucault, *Jean François Lyotard
Week 5: Marxist criticism: *Karl Marx, *Friedrich Engels, *Terry Eagleton
Week 6: Midterm & Marxist criticism continued: *Louis Althusser, *Antonio Gramsci
Week 7: New Historicism: *Stephen Greenblatt, *Michel Foucault, *Louis Montrose, *Hayden White
Week 8: Feminist Criticism: *Virginia Woolf, *Simone de Beauvoir, *Helene Cixous, *Luce Irigaray, *Betty Friedan
Week 9: Feminist Criticism continued: *Kate Millett, *Elaine Showalter, *Julia Kristeva, *Elizabeth *Grosz,* Judith Butler,* Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Week 10: Postcolonial Criticism: *Homi Bhabha, *Edward Said, *Frantz Fanon, *Salman Rushdie
Week 11: Posthuman Criticism: *Katherine Hayles, *Donna Haraway
Week 12: Ecocriticism: *Donna Haraway, *Dipesh Chakrabarty

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Quizzes 25 %
• Participation 5 %