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Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
MODERN/CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY II AKE418 8. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 5.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction English
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery Lectures Reading Handouts Library usage and other learning resources Group work Discussion and debate Independent study
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Goals This course focuses on poets whose work has contributed the most to 20th-Century American poetry by way of innovation. The goal is to develop an appreciation and an understanding of late 20th-Century and 21st-Century American poetry through a detailed study of particular poems and key poetic concepts.
Course Content This course analyzes the 20th Century American Poetry.
Learning Outcomes 1) Students handle the characteristics of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century in various ways.
2) Students develop poetry reading and examination skills.
3) It gives information about various literary and art movements in the second half of the 20th century.
4) Students can give examples from poems of such poets as Ginsberg, L. Ferlinghetti, S. Plath, A. Sexton, and J. Berryman, examines the works in detail in terms of form, style and content.
5) Students develop research, analysis and synthesis, and critical thinking skills.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Beat Generation: Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Constantly Risking Absurdity,” “In Goya’s Greatest Scenes.” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Allen Ginsberg: “America,” “A Supermarket in California,” selections from “Howl.” “Beat’in Ağır Topu Allen Ginsberg” by Yusuf Eradam. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week The Confessional Turn: The Personal as the Political Screening: Sylvia (dir. Christine Jeffs, 2003) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Sylvia Plath: “Lady Lazarus,” “Daddy,” “Blackberrying,” “The Colossus,” “Morning Song,” and “Sonsöz Intihar: Nilgün Marmara ve Sylvia Plath’ın Şiirleri” by Yusuf Eradam. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Anne Sexton: “Cinderella,” “The Kiss,” “Lobster.” John Berryman: “Dream Song 14” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Robert Lowell: “Skunk Hour,” “Mr. Edwards and the Spider.” Theodore Roethke: “Root Cellar,” “I knew a Woman,” “Dolor.” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Multicultural Poetics and the Nation N. Scott Momaday: “Plainview: 3,” “December 29, 1890” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Adrian C. Louis: “Earth Bone Connected to the Spirit Bone,” “A Colossal American Copulation,” “Dust World.” Wendy Rose: “Truganinny.” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Louise Erdrich: “Dear John Wayne.” Sherman Alexie: “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel,” “Evolution.” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Gloria Anzaldúa: “El sonavabitche” Jimmy Santiago Baca: “Mi Tío Baca El Poeta De Socorro.” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Homework
11. Week Sandra Cisneros: “Little Clown, My Heart.” Martín Espada: “Poetry and the Burden of History,” “Bully,” “The Skull beneath the Skin of the Mango.” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Ai (Florence Anthony): “The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Fiction” Gwendolyn Brooks: “We Real Cool,” “The Boy Died in My Alley,” “To the Diaspora.” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones): “Black Art,” “SOS.” Yusef Komunyakaa: “The Nazi Doll,” “Tu Do Street,” “Work.” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Homework
14. Week Angel Island: Poems by Chinese Immigrants (1910-1940) Marilyn Chin, “What is American about American Poetry,” “How I Got That Name;” Japanese American Concentration Camp Haiku (1942-1944) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Lauter et al. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Vol 2.
MAPS: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry @ http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/
Moore, Geoffrey ( Ed.) The Penguin Book of American Verse.
Nelson, Cary. (ED). Anthology of Modern American Poetry.

Assessment
Measurement and Evaluation Methods and Techniques
Midterm (%40), Final (%60), Presentations, Assignments
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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 5
Homework 6 5
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 10
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 10
1 1
Dönem Sonu Sınavı (DSS) 1 2
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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