TDE375

School of Humanities \ Turkish Language and Literature

3

6

Elective

Turkish

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Turkish Language and Literature Undergraduate Program

Literary criticism course examines the historical and theoretical foundations of literary criticism and the basic characteristics of traditional and modern critical theories.

1. Berna Moran, Edebiyat Kuramları ve Eleştiri
2. J. C. Carloni, J. C. Filloux, Eleştiri Kuramları
3. Rene Wellek - Austin Warren, Edebiyat Teorisi

To introduce the sources and development of literary criticism in Turkish and Western literature through texts.

1. Understands the information about the historical and theoretical foundations of literary criticism.
2. Recognizes the basic characteristics of traditional and modern critical theories.
3. Learns to approach works in Turkish literature in the context of theory and criticism.

Week 1: Conceptual Framework (Criticism- Criticism- Criteria- Sources)
Week 2: Birth and Development of Criticism
Week 3: Trace Criticism
Week 4: Biographical Psychoanalysis
Week 5: Sociological Criticism
Week 6: Scientific Impressionist Criticism
Week 7: Intertextuality
Week 8: Midterm
Week 9: Other approaches to criticism (Reception Aesthetics, New Criticism, Postmodernist Criticism)
Week 10: Development and Representatives of Literary Criticism in Turkey I
Week 11: Development and Representatives of Literary Criticism in Turkey II
Week 12: Development and Representatives of Literary Criticism in Turkey III

• Class Participation 10 %
• Midterm Homework 40 %
• Final 50 %