Course introduces undergraduate students to modern literary theory and criticism. It provides basic knowledge of the skills and tools required to look at literary texts affectively in their linguistic, cultural and historical contexts

This course introduces undergraduate students to modern literary theory and criticism. It provides basic knowledge of the skills and tools required to look at literary texts affectively in their linguistic, cultural and historical contexts

Reading and preparing paper.

Selden, “Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School,”  ” Nazan­Bülent Aksoy, “Rus Biçimciliği Üstüne Bir Ön  Çalışmanın Notları,” “Şklovski’nin Makalesi ile Biçimci Yöntem Üzerine,”   Nüket Esen, “Acıyı Balla Yoğurmak:  Haldun Taner Hikayelerinde İçerik­Anlatım Tekniği İlişkisi,” Booker, “Bakhtinian Literary Criticism”...