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    Hacettepe University

    Faculty of Letters

    Department of English Language and Literature

    SYLLABUS

    Title of the course: IED 143 (01) Introduction to Literature


    Year and Term: 2011-2012 Fall
    Class Hours: Wednesday 09:00-11.45
    Classroom: B2/201

    I. Aim of the course


    The course aims to prepare the students for the courses of the following years by making them familiar with the basic literary
    types and terms. Throughout the course, the students will examine different literary texts of poetry, prose and drama to be able to
    develop a better understanding of the literary texts and put what they learn into practice.

    II. Course Outline


    Week I: General Introduction to Literary Terms. What is Literature? What is Fact and Fiction?
    Week II-III: LITERARY TYPES: I. POETRY: What is poetry? What is STYLE?
    How to analyse STYLE?/ FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND FIGURES OF SPEECH: Imagery, Symbol, Metaphor,
    Metonomy, Simile, Conceit, Personification, Paradox, Oxymoron, Irony, Hyperbole, Understatement, Pun, Euphemism,
    Antithesis- Opposition, Climax, Anti-climax, Rhetoric, Apostrophe.
    Week IV: VERSIFICATION AND STANZA FORMS: Diction, Tone, Stanza, Prosody, Meter, Accent, Scansion, Rhyme,
    Scheme, Canto, Couplet, Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, Blank Verse, Free Verse.
    Week V: MIDTERM EXAMINATION I
    Week VI: NO CLASS (Bayram Holiday)
    Week VII: FORMS OF POETRY: Lyric, Ode, Ballad, Elegy, Sonnet, Epic, Mock-Epic, Chanson de gestes, Romance, Pastoral,
    Eclogue, Acrostic, Allegory, Satire, Caricature, Bestiary, Burlesque, Parody.
    Week VIII: LITERARY TYPES: I. PROSE: II a) Fiction: Short Story, Novella, Fable, Saga, Legend, Myth, Novel.
    II b) Non-Fiction: Journal, Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Essay, Travel Literature.
    Week IX: ELEMENTS OF NARRATIVE: Plot, sub-plot, Action, Denoument, Prologue, Epilogue, Flashback, Foreshadowing,
    In medias res, Conflict, Suspense, Point of view, Character, Characterization, Protagonist, Antagonist, Anti-hero, Foil,
    Confidante, Fool.
    Week X and XI: LITERARY TYPES: III. DRAMA: ELEMENTS OF DRAMA: Dramatic action, Plot (Exposition, Rising
    action, Climax, Falling action, Resolution), Character (Flat and Round Character), Thought, Diction, Music, Spectacle, Style,
    Theme, Gestures, Unities, Hamartia, Hubris, Nemesis, Catharsis, Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, Aside, Soliloquy, Anachoronism, Deux
    ex machina, Chorous, Fool, Miles Gloriosis.
    Week XII: MIDTERM EXAMINATION II
    Week XIII: FORMS OF DRAMA: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragi-comedy, Farce, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Humours,
    Comedy of Manners, Sentimental Comedy, Commedia dell’arte, Melodrama, History Play, Mystery Play, Miracle Play, Morality
    Play, Interlude, Pantomime, Masque, Comedy of ideas, Closet Drama.
    Week XIV: Make-Up/Revision
    III. Textbooks
    Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston: Cornell UP, 1999.
    Bozkurt, Bülent. A Companion to the Study of Literature. Ankara: Hacettepe UP, 1977.
    Cuddon, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. New York: Penguin, 1992.
    IV. Supplementary Reading
    Hawthorn, Jeremy. Studying the Novel. London: Bloomsbury, 2010.
    Marsh, Nicholas. How to Begin Studying English Literature. New York: Palgrave,1995.
    Nutku, Özdemir. Dram Sanatı: Tiyatroya Giriş. İstanbul: Kabalcı Yayınevi, 2001.
    Simith, L. E.W. A Short Course on Poetry. London: Mentuen, 1961.
    There are also various dictionaries of literary terms available at book stores and Bilkent and Hacettepe Libraries.
    V. Method of Instruction
    The course will be conducted through lecturing and workshops (+homework), pair, group work and discussions.
    VI. Requirements
    The students are expected to read the assigned materials beforehand to be able to join class discussions. Attendance is
    obligatory. More than 11 hours of absence will be graded as F1.
    VII. Assessment
    There will be two midterm examinations and a final examination. In the grading of examination papers, up to 25 % of the total
    mark will be taken off for grammatical and writing mistakes. The students who get less than 50 in the final exam will
    automatically fail the course no matter what their midterm results are. Finally, the grading will be as follows:

    Midterm I: 20 %
    Midterm II: 20 %
    Term Paper (+ Homework), Class Participation, Attendance: 15 %
    Final Examination: 45 %

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