ELIT513 20TH CENTURY BRITISH POETRY

Course Code:8210513
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. MARGARET JEANNE M. SÖNMEZ
Offered Semester:Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives

Among the specific goals the students are expected to achieve in this course are the following:

         *to be able to identify and analyze technical elements and figures of speech used in them

        *to be able to develop their analytical skills needed for in-depth study of poems

        * to improve their ability to articulate ideas about and respond to the poems against the backdrop of different philosophical schools with an epistemological awareness,

        * to learn how to write insightful papers on the poems covered in the class,

      


Course Content

Significant characteristics of modern English poetry will be studied with emphasis on selected works of T.S. Eliot, Yeats, Lawrence, Graves, Betjeman, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Heaney, etc.


Course Learning Outcomes


Program Outcomes Matrix

Level of Contribution
#Program Outcomes0123
1compare and contrast literary texts written in different periods of British literature in terms of form and content.
2appreciate authors who emerge out of non-British contexts.
3approach the notion of the literary canon from a critical perspective.
4read and interpret texts critically from different theoretical vantage points.
5become acquainted with the characteristics of various genres of literature.
6identify major themes and generic features of literary texts.
7analyze the relationships between form and content in literary texts.
8outline the major lines of critical argument around literary and cultural texts.
9write insighful papers on different literary topics.
10articulate their ideas with a critical awareness in literary discussions.
11decipher different literary texts in terms of structure and technical features.

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