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Program of American Culture and Literature (English)

ACL483

LITERATURE AND MEMORY

Course Code
ACL483
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
4
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS4
Name of Lecturer(s) -
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Explore the intersection between memory studies and literature.
  2. Discuss the concept of memory in relation to different cultural contexts.
  3. Analyze the workings of memory in a literary text.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course DescriptionThis course outlines key approaches to understanding the construction of memory in relation to social, cultural, and political forces. Beginning with a discussion of the history of the concept of memory, it examines literary representations of memory with a particular attention to the themes of nationalism, transculturalism, trauma, immigration.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introduction: Memory Studies as an academic field
2nd Week The history of the concept of memory
3rd Week Classic and contemporary perspectives on memory
4th Week Contemporary perspectives on memory
5th Week Collective and cultural memory
6th Week Memory and history
7th Week Midterm
8th Week Memory and nationalism
9th Week Memory and transculturalism
10th Week Memory and transculturalism
11th Week Memory and immigration
12th Week Memory and trauma
13th Week Memory and trauma
14th Week Revision
Recommended or Required ReadingAssmann, Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives. 1999. Translated by Aleida Assmann and David Henry Wilson. Cambridge UP, 2011.
Bond, Lucy, and Jessica Rapson, editors. Introduction. The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders. De Gruyter, 2014
Bond, Lucy, Stef Craps, Pieter Vermeulen, editors. Introduction. Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies. Berghahn Books, 2016.
Crownshaw, Rick, editor. Introduction. Transcultural Memory. Routledge, 2013.
Creet, Julia. Editor. Introduction. Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies. edited by Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann. University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp. 3-26.
Erll, Astrid. Memory in Culture. Translated by Sara B. Young, Palgrave, 2011
Erll, Astrid, and Ann Rigney, editors. "Introduction: Cultural Memory and its Dynamics." Meditation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory. De Gruyter, 2009, pp. 1-11.
Halbwachs, Maurice. The Collective Memory. Translated by Francis J. Ditter, Jr. and Vida Yazdi Ditter. Harper & Row, 1980.
Kamali, Leila. The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Nora, Pierre. "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux De Memoire." Representations, no. 26, 1989, pp. 7-24. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2928520.
Phillips, Caryl. Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11. The New Press, 2011.
Schulze-Engler, Frank. Introduction. Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities. Edited by Frank Schulze-Engler and Sissy Helff. Rodopi, 2008, pp. ix-xvi
Welsch, Wolfgang. "Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today." Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World. Edited by Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash. Sage, 1999. pp.194-213.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Questions/Answers
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 30
Assignment 1 15
Quiz 1 15
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 1 3 3
Individual or group work 14 4 56
Preparation for Final exam 1 5 5
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 4 4
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 2 2
Homework 1 4 4
Quiz 1 4 4
Total Work Load122
Total Work Load / 30 (h)4.06
ECTS Credit of the Course4
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

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