ELIT506 20TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL II
| Course Code: | 8210506 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | English Literature |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. ELİF ÖZTABAK AVCI |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will learn:
recurring thematic concerns and formal characteristics of the novels written in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century.
major aesthetic, philosophical, cultural and political contexts informing the novels written in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century.
Course Content
Works of significant novelists from the thirties through the Post-War period to the present day will be studied.
Course Learning Outcomes
The student who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
identify major themes and formal features of post-war and late twentieth-century British novel.
to compare and contrast post-war and late twentieth-century British novel with the novels written in Britain earlier in the century in terms of form and content.
will be able to outline the major lines of critical argument around the selected novels.
will be able to analyze the relationships between form and content in the selected novels.
will be able to compose a critical essay on at least one of the novels studied in class.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | compare and contrast literary texts written in different periods of British literature in terms of form and content. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | appreciate authors who emerge out of non-British contexts. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | approach the notion of the literary canon from a critical perspective. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | read and interpret texts critically from different theoretical vantage points. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | become acquainted with the characteristics of various genres of literature. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | identify major themes and generic features of literary texts. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | analyze the relationships between form and content in literary texts. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | outline the major lines of critical argument around literary and cultural texts. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | write insighful papers on different literary topics. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | articulate their ideas with a critical awareness in literary discussions. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | decipher different literary texts in terms of structure and technical features. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution