MEMORY AND LITERATURE

ACL583

Course Code: ACL583
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 5

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree With Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Explore the intersection between memory studies and literature.
Discuss the concept of memory in relation to various cultural contexts.
Analyze the workings of memory in a literary text.

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

This course outlines key approaches to understanding the construction of memory in relation to American social cultural, and political forces. Beginning with a discussion of the history of the concept of memory, it examines literary representations of memory with particular attention to the themes of nationalism, transculturalism, trauma, and (im)migration.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction: Memory Studies as an academic field
2^nd Week	The history of the concept of memory
3^rd Week	Classic and contemporary perspectives on memory
4^th Week	Contemporary perspectives on memory
5^th Week	Collective and cultural memory
6^th Week	Memory and history
7^th Week	Memory and nationalism
8^th Week	Midterm exam
9^th Week	Memory and transculturalism
10^th Week	Memory and transculturalism
11^th Week	Memory and immigration
12^th Week	Memory and immigration
13^th Week	Memory and trauma
14^th Week	Memory and trauma
15^th Week	Revision

Recommended or Required Reading

Assmann, 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.

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.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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

Language of Instruction

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3
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K6
K7
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