Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVE DİNG404 8. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 8.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction English
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Cihan YAZGI
Assistants
Goals This course aims to offer an appreciation of the British novel after the second half of the twentieth century within the scope of the selected novels and short stories that display various literary tendencies and narrative strategies.
Course Content Students explore selected works of fiction in the light of various literary movements and analyse the formal and textual changes in the novel after the 1950s within a literary, cultural and sociopolitical context.
Learning Outcomes 1) Examine the social, political and economic developments that influenced the selected writers in the second half of the twentieth century.
2) Explain and discuss the terms and concepts related to the period.
3) Analyse various selected novels and short stories from the second half of the twentieth century within the context of their form, style and themes.
4) Improve analytical and critical skills, and develop a capacity for independent insight.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Introduction to the course Lecture
Panel
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
2. Week William Golding - Lord of the Flies (Ch. 1-4) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning 		Homework Seminar
3. Week William Golding - Lord of the Flies (Ch. 4-8) Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
4. Week William Golding - Lord of the Flies (Ch. 9-12) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
5. Week Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (Part I) Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Homework Seminar
6. Week Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (Part II) Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
7. Week Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (Part III) Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
8. Week Posmodern/Postmodernist fiction Lecture
Panel
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
9. Week Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
10. Week Angela Carter - "The Werewolf" Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
11. Week Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry (historiographic metafiction, intertextuality) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
12. Week Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry (temporality, space) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
13. Week Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry (pastiche, memory) Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
14. Week Revision and discussion Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning 		Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Brannigan, John. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England 1945-2000.
Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000.
Hutcheon, Linda, The Poetics of Postmodernism, and The Politics of Postmodernism.
Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction.
McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction.
Tew, Philip. The Contemporary British Novel.
Waugh, Patricia. Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern.

Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program RequirementsContribution LevelDK1DK2DK3DK4
PY255555
PY355555
PY1155555
PY1555555

*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
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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 7
Homework 5 10
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 2 6
Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time) 1 2
Seminar 13 1
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 3
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 7
1 1
1 2
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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  • Weekly Topics (Content)
  • Sources Used in This Course
  • Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
  • ECTS credits and course workload