ELIT611 CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY
| Course Code: | 8210611 |
| 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: | Prof.Dr. NURTEN BİRLİK |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will learn:
- major philosophical, political and literary issues raised by and key concepts and terms developed in theoretical movements/schools such as Formalism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalytic theory, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Marxist Criticism, and Feminist Criticism
Course Content
Recent literary theoretical concerns and their bearing upon writing, reading and criticism of literature. It examines, among others, the theoretical positions of new psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist, pheno- menological and new historicist criticism.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- identify the characteristics of various theoretical movements/schools such as Formalism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalytic theory, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Marxist Criticism, and Feminist Criticism
- read critically a wide range of theoretical selections from different periods and reflect on them from their own vantage point
- write insightful papers with a theoretical awareness
- improve their ability to articulate ideas and responses against the backdrop of different theories
- to practice skills that will enable them to analyse other textual material like films, iconic signs, cultural elements and rituals with a theoretical awareness
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