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A critical study of selected works of John Milton including Paradise Lost, Pradise Regained, L'Allegro, IL Penseroso, and Comus.

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Spencers works, especially, The Faerie Queene, will be discussed as representative specimens of Elizabethan poetry.

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Significant novels of Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence and Forster will be examined critically.

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Works of significant novelists from the thirties through the Post-War period to the present day will be studied.

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In-depth study of trends and works in modern British drama, including plays by Osborne, Bond, Pinter, Arden, and other significant dramatists.

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In-depth study of selected major Shakespearean plays.

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After a brief review of approaches to literature before the twentieth century, this course concentrates upon developments in literary criticism in the twentieth century. The approach used is conceptual rather than historical; the concepts of literature in the major contemporary movements of literary criticism and the assumptions concerning the study of literature underlying these movements are studied in representative texts. Examples of applications of the approaches discussed to literary texts are also included in the course.

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After an introduction to the background of the English novel and its beginning in the eighteenth century, novels by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne and other significant writers are studied in-depth.

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Significant characteristics of the Romantic period and Romanticism will be discussed and selected works of prose and poetry will be studied. Among the authors to be considered are Burns, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, Blake, Scott, De Quincey, Byron, Shelley, Keats.

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This course aims to serve as an intensive study of major authors in postcolonial theory and literature. Through lecture, discussion, research, and writing, students will practice applying postcolonial theory to works of literature. The course aims to establish some of the important concepts in the study of postcolonial şiterature, discuss colonialism, call attention to major research tools, and exemplify the interplay between the colonialist and the colonized. The course will focus on the conceptual work that postcolonial thinking allows in relation to historical periodizing logic, on the relation of postcolonial to comparable designations such as third world, transnational, global and neoliberal. We will ponder the usefulness of notions of mimicry, hybridity, orientalism, resistance, and migrancy in understanding postcolonial subjectivity. the intersections of these categories with the broder conceptual categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, and notion will be a critical area of inquiry.

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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.

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Chaucers role in the development of English literature and a study of his major works including Canterbury Tales.

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Representative examples of the Victorian novel are studied and criticized as a means of achieving a complete understanding of selected authors' attitudes towards the basic human and social issues of the Victorian Period in English Literature.

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Representative texts are used to study the courtly love and romance traditions, verse romances and Medieval drama.

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Characteristics of the Renaissance spirit as reflected in English literature are studied in selected works of drama, poetry and prose. (Works to be selected from Sidney, Spencer, Marlowe, Decker, Middleton, Shakespeare).

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Representative works and genres are studied in the context of social and intellectual trends of the period. (Works to be selected from Milton, Donne, Marvell, Johnson, etc.)

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Representative works and genres are studied in the context of the social and intellectual trends of the period. (Works to be selected from Pope, Dryden, Swift, Johnson, Fielding, Defoe, etc.)

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Representative examples of the poetry and prose of the Victorian Age are studied as a means of understanding and evaluating the social, moral and scientific issue of this period. (Works to be selected from Arnold, Huxley, Ruskin, Dickens, G. Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Tennyson, Browning, Butler, etc.)

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Major works of the significant writers of the 20th century are studied as a means of acquiring a complete understanding of these writers' attitudes towards basic human and social issues of the period. (Works of Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Forster, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Orwell, Osborne, Pinter, etc.)

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This is the course that concentrates on the development of Literary Theory from the Classical Age of Greece to the Modern Period. The approach used is historical as well as conceptual. Major texts necessary for an understanding of modern criticism are read and discussed. The focus is on the theoretical aspect. Practical criticism is not a part of this course.

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Texts by major literary figures of the 19th and 20th century are studied with a critical approach to give the students a taste of American Literature with its specifically American themes and concerns. The approach used is cultural as well as literary.

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This course focuses on ways of doing effective research and writing good research papers articles in the field of literary studies. The course consists of theoretical readings on research and scholarship in literary studies as well as practical examples of completed research, which the students are expected to assess in the light of the research principles discussed throughout the course. students are also expected to work on their own research paper article throughout the term. This work involves not only planning, drafting and revising the research paper in line with the principles of literary research but also reflecting critically on ones own evolving understanding of and approach to research and writing.

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After basic concepts, theories and trends of psychology are introduced, representative literary works are studied in the light of these trends.

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Major aesthetic, philosophical, cultural and political contexts informing fiction in Britain in the twenty-first century; recurring thematic concerns and formal characteristics of novels by influential writers hailing from Britain in the new millennium.

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Preparation towards M.A. thesis proposal through prescribed readings; written or oral presentation of the work developed.

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Interactions between English literature and Spanish, Italian, French, German and Russian Literatures from the Middle Ages to 20th century. This interaction is be studied in the light of social, political economic changes and philosophical and literary trends.

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Analysis of the literary text as a key to the mechanisms of the psyche, the relationship between the text and author and reader. The texts are also studied as a part of a more general problem of dealing with the constitution of the self and its relationship with the other.

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An introduction to contemporary Non-Western literatures with an emphasis on multicultural and multiethnic writers. The texts include the works of writers who write in English to reach a wider audience, as well as those translated into English. Emphasis on different authors in different semesters.

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Development of a disciplined and consistent approach to literary research, with emphasis on problems of locating, analyzing and interpreting data.

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Major narrative literary genres and inter-generic relations. Non-literary causes behind genres, and common formal literary devices among genres and their transformations.

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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.

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The course begins with further readings from a number of critics/philosophers who paved the way for contemporary theory. Against the background of these critics, the students will apply their critical perspectives (structuralism, Marxist theory, psychoanalytical criticism, post-structuralism, postcolonial theory, feminist, gay and lesbian theory, and cultural theories) to different texts.

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This course provides postgraduate students of English with basic Old English skills to enable them to translate selected authentic texts from the period 600-1100, and from the start it supplements the language component with information about Anglo Saxon history and culture, and with study and interpretation of their literary productions.

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Focusing on major classical and postclassical theories of narrative, this course aims to provide students with a through account of both formalist/descriptivist and interpretative/evaluative paradigms in studies of narrative.Students will explore major issues in recent scholarship on narrative such as narrativity, (trans)mediality, worldmaking, binocularity and digital textuality in connection with some earlier classical narratological questions regarding narrative constituency, storys autonomy and transferability, narrative grammar, deep/surface narrative structure and so on. This course not only focuses on theories of verbal narratives but also of visual/verbal, visual, filmic and multimodal/multimedia/digital narratives.Students will be encouraraged to explore critically the relationship between tools of narrative analysis and narrative media and seek answers to questions such as how narrativity as well as narrative analysis might be changing as the media of telling stories change. This course also aims to help students design a research paper analyzing (a) narrative text(s) in any medium or media in the light of narrative theories studied in class.

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The relationship between women and the idea of "author" and "authority". How women writers try to find a space for writing in their own terms and the strategies they develop to be recognized in the male-dominated world of writing and publishing. The work of prominent feminist theorists as well as a wide selection of creative writers are examined.

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The impact of scientific discoveries and theories on literature studied with an interdisciplinary approach.

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A study of Turkish and British works evincing similar generic and content features. Emphasis on different genres in different semesters.

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A study of fiction as a literary genre through representative works from different periods.

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A study of drama as a literary genre through representative works from different periods.

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A study of verse forms and types through representative works from different periods.

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In this course, PhD students will learn to design a dissertation proposal in the field of literary studies. Students will receive feedback on their proposal drafts from the instructor and their peers on a regular basis and will present the final draft in class at the end of the semester.

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