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Program of American Culture and Literature (English)

ACL224

SURVEYOF AMERICAN LITERATURE 2

Course Code
ACL224
Semester
Fourth Term (Spring)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
6
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study2
SemesterFourth Term (Spring)
ECTS6
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Recognize the major periods and movements in American literature from the Civil War to the present.
  2. Illustrate the characteristics of the literary movements by providing examples from American literature from the Civil War to the present.
  3. Connect the major works of American literature from the late nineteenth century to global and contemporary issues including discussions on race, gender, politics, and human rights.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course DescriptionThis course offers a historical survey of the development of American literature from the end of the American Civil War to the present. Various literary movements such as Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and Postmodernism will be studied and contemporary examples from American literature will be included among the selected texts.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introduction to the Course and Overview of the Syllabus: Introductory Lecture on American Literature from 1600s to 2000s, Literature of the Antebellum and Civil War
2nd Week From Romanticism to Realism: Walt Whitman "Beat! Beat! Drums!" and "The Wound Dresser"
3rd Week Realism: Ambrose Bierce "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" William Dean Howells "Editha"
4th Week Naturalism: Jack London "To Build a Fire"; Stephen Crane "The Open Boat"
5th Week Naturalism: Stephen Crane "The Open Boat" Cont. ; Edith Wharton "The Other Two"
6th Week Regionalism: Charles W. Chestnutt "The Wife of His Youth" Sarah Orne Jewett "A White Heron"
7th Week Southern Gothic: William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily"
8th Week Midterm Exam
9th Week Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes "I Too" Countee Cullen "from The Dark Tower" Claude McKay "If We Must Die"
10th Week Modernism Marianne Moore "Poetry" Ezra Pound "A Pact" Amy Lowell "On Imagism"
11th Week Modernism: F. Scott Fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited" Ernest Hemingway "Mount Klimanjaro"
12th Week Post-Second World War Literature: Allen Ginsberg "A Supermarket in California" Sylvia Plath "Daddy"
13th Week Postmodernism: Donald Barthelme "The Balloon" Billie Collins "Sonnet"
14th Week Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day
15th Week Sacrifice Feast Eve
16th Week Wrap-Up
Recommended or Required ReadingLevine, Robert S., et al., editors. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 9th edition, Volumes C, D and E, New York, Norton, 2017.
Ruland, Richard, and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature, London, Routledge, 1991.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 40
Quiz 2 20
Total(%) 60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for Quiz 2 4 8
Individual or group work 14 4 56
Preparation for Final exam 1 20 20
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 2 2
Homework 2 8 16
Quiz 2 2 4
Article Presentation 1 8 8
Total Work Load178
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5.93
ECTS Credit of the Course6
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

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