LIT 524 Postcolonial Theory and Literatures |
3 Credits |
the other course readings. This course may be taken
What happens whwn anthropolologists take up history? The
recent interest of anthropology in history will be examined
in this course through the close reading of a selection of
contemporary ethnographies (books produced by
anthropologists on the basis of field research ).
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Postcolonial Theory and Literatures |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 530 Auto/biography |
3 Credits |
This course will be an introduction to different
types of self-narrative, ranging from autobiographies,
biographies, auto-ethnographies, self-documentaries
to autofiction. The course will emphasize the study of
narrative structures in autobiography. Different
autobiographical texts will be studied in their historical,
social and political contexts, while we explore the
impact such works have had on literary and intellectual
history. In the contextof autobiographical writing,
in the tensile relationship between self and society, we
will analyze issues related to gender, sexuality,
race, class, and religion. Possible readings include St.
Augustine's Confessions, J. J. Rousseau's Confessions,
Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,
Halide Edib Adıvar's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal,
RolandBarthes's Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes,
Brenda Maddox's Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce
(Or: Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom), Latife Tekin's
Gece Dersleri, and Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Hatıralar
ve Şehir
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Auto/biography |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Auto/biography |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Auto/biography |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 534 Literary Theory |
3 Credits |
This course is designed as a critical survey of
modern literary theory from the middle of the
twentieth century to today. It includes both
primary and secondary readings on New
Criticism, Structuralism and Semiotics,
Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Marxist and
Cultural Criticism, Feminism, and Post-Colonialism.
Discussion will include applications of
these approaches to literary texts as well as the
evaluation of their methodological assumptions,
consistency, and fruitfulness. The aim of this
course is not only to enhance the students'
ability to read critically and to think theoretically,
but also to provide an understanding
of the importance of contemporary literary theory for
the analysis of culture in
general and the influence of literary theories on fields
such as anthropology, cultural studies,
history, psychology, and even law.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2017-2018 |
Literary Theory |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Literary Theory |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Literary Theory |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 540 Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 Credits |
The course focuses on the critical evaluation of
of the impact of psychoanalytic discourses on literature
and literary studies and vice versa. Basic concepts
of psychoanalytic theory and criticism will be
covered with reference to the writings of Freud and
Lacan, as well as to the later interventions by
such theorists as Derrida, Zizek, Deleuze and Guattari.
Students will be encouraged to develop their
skills in the textual analysis of a range of literary and
psychoanalytic works, considering them as distinct ways
of talking about desire, fantasy, memory,
madness, and the unconscious.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
Spring 2017-2018 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
Spring 2014-2015 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
Spring 2011-2012 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 545 Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 Credits |
This course explores the ways in which literature
reflects, influences, creates, and reveals cultural
beliefs about gender roles, identities, and sexuality
by analyzing short stories, novels, poems, and
plays from a diversity of eras and national traditions.
Literary texts are studied in the light of major
works of feminist and queer literary theories and
histories of sexuality. The ways in which
gender intersects with other cultural issues such as
race, nationhood, globalization, and class
is also addressed in the context of specific literary texts.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
Spring 2019-2020 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
Spring 2018-2019 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
Fall 2016-2017 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
Spring 2014-2015 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 552 Seminar in World Literature |
3 Credits |
In-depth readings of selected texts, representative
of various periods and genres (ranging
from ancient Greek epic and drama through
early modern, modern and contemporary texts),
combining close textual analysis of a set of original
works with the study of multiple layers of
interpretation as attempted by the existing secondary
literature
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2012-2013 |
Seminar in World Literature |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 554 Literature and Immigration |
3 Credits |
Immigration has received much attention in the last
century, usually as a "problem" or a "question" for
the host country. The general term immigration is
often used to talk about political exiles, economic
refugees and internal migrants, as well as those
who fit the classic picture of an individual or family
moving permanently to a new home country.
This course will look at literary works by writers
who have been classified as "immigrants" to the country
from which they write. While the course will take into
account the linguistic, political and cultural issues
these authors consider, it will also consider how
the writers themselves have embraced or rejected
the designation of "immigrant" and what is at stake
in such a decision.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Literature and Immigration |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 559 Literature, Ideology, Resistance |
3 Credits |
This course focuses on some of the major literary figures
responsible for innovating literature's political role
in society and redefining the responsibility of artists and
critics in the twentieth century. The euphoria created
by the struggles against colonization and racial and class
oppression in various parts of the world led artists to
reevaluate the political possibilities of literature. The
study of a group of writers at the nexus of these struggles
incorporates a critical dialogue on cultural studies.
Accordingly, the course puts the emphasis
on the theoretical debates on how culture, ideology,
'race', ethnicity and class have been defined and/or
represented. An important learning outcome is to equip the
student with the conceptual tools to analyze a variety
of literary texts with respect to politics,
ideology and resistance.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Literature, Ideology, Resistance |
3 |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Literature, Ideology, Resistance |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Literature, Ideology, Resistance |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 570 Imagining the City |
3 Credits |
This course explores the city as a theme in such
literary genres as the novel, drama,
autobiography, and poetry, as well as film.
From the ancient polis as a political unit to the
twenty-first century metropolis, the city has
emerged in literature as the antithesis to
state of nature, the birthplace of modernity, the
stage for social change and conflict, the locus
of transition from empire to nation-state, and the meeting
point of "the East" and "the West."
With its inclusions, exclusions, periphery, subcultures,
underground, public and private spheres, and
fragmentations, the city is a symbolic system exploited
widely in literature. The course may include such
literary representations of the city as Balzac or
Baudelaire's Paris, Joyce's Dublin, and Mahfouz's
Cairo, as well as contemporary, utopian
or dystopian works in world literature.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Imagining the City |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 594 Modern Turkish Literature |
3 Credits |
What are the repercussions of social and political
movements in Turkish literature? How is the
cultural dynamism of Turkey represented on the literary
plane? This course will explore modern Turkey and
its literature through the works of writers such as Ahmet
Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, Adalet Ağaoğlu and
Orhan Pamuk. The course will attempt to define what we
mean by "Turkish national literature" by analyzing
representations of gender, religion, cultural and national
identity not only in works written in Turkish but also
those written in a language other than Turkish
(predominantly English) and published outside the
borders of Turkey (Selma Ekrem, Halide Edib.)
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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LIT 692 Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 Credits |
This seminar introduces students to major works of
literature that have influenced Turkish history and
culture and continue to have an impact on our
understanding of contemporary Turkey. Seminar
materials combine such literary works with theoretical
and historical writings on Turkey, focusing on topics
such as nationalism, gender, theories of third world
narratives and aesthetics in a non-western context,
canon-formation and the construction of a national
canon, minority literatures, and prison literature.
Compared to a introductory survey course on Turkish
Literature (such as LIT 394), LIT 692 encourages in-
depth analyses of fewer literary works. The authors to
be covered include (but are not limited to) Ahmet
Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, Orhan Pamuk, Adalet
Ağaoğlu, Latife Tekin, Elif Şafak, Emine Sevgi
Özdamar, Mehmet Uzun, and Mıgırdıç Margosyan
The language of instruction is Turkish. Subject to the
completion of a long (approx. 30 pages) research paper
largely based on primary sources, this seminar counts
towards the fulfillment of the research seminar
requirements for the MA and PhD degrees in History.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2018-2019 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
Spring 2013-2014 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
Spring 2003-2004 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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