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BEFORE WE BEGIN

• Class Schedule (Spring 2021)
• Welcome to the Course
• Course Overview (an introductory video designed by Estabraq Alwazzan)
• Student Information Form (SIF)
• Course Syllabus (Spring 2021)
• Definitions of Assessment Tools
• Bonus-Point Policy
• Attendance Sheet: Regulations, Abbreviations and Color Code Interpretation
• WhatsApp Netiquette Policy
• About Me
• Contact Me

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KEY LINKS

Visit the Key Links page for more important links

• Literary Theory Facebook Group (Join this group to share your comments and views with classmates and other group members)
• Literary Theory Facebook Page (Like this page for additional notes)
• Department of English Web Page  (This is the official web page for the Department of English)
• University Website (This is the official website of Karabük University)
• Karabukide Graduate Studies  (This is the Facebook page for graduate students of the Department of English at Karabük University)

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SESSIONS

• Week 01: Introduction
  • Opening Session Plan
  • Introduction
  • How Not to Create a Literary Theory (Slides)
  • How Not to Create a Literary Theory (Video)
• Week 02: Plato and Aristotle
  • Session Plan
  • Extracts from Aristotle’s Poetics
  • The Simile of the Cave from Plato’s Republic
• Week 03: Horace and Longinus
  • Session Plan 
  • Longinus
  • The Four Classical Theories Tabulated
  • The Classical Period Recap Video
  • Sappho’s “Ode to Jealousy”
  • Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott”
  • Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” and the Classical Theories (Session Audio Recording)
  • Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” and the Classical Theories (Session Audio Recording Script prepared by Mohammad Talaweh)
• Week 04: The Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Session Plan
  • Psychoanalysis: An Overview
  • “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe
  • “The Black Cat”: A Psychoanalytical Approach
• Week 05: The Archetypal Theory and Myth Criticism
  • Session Plan
  • List of Most Common Archetypes in Literature
  • A. E. Housman’s “When I Was One and Twenty”
• Week 06: The Formalist Theory
  • Session Plan
  • Formalism: An Overview
• Week 07:The Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
  • The Feminist Theory
• Week 08: The Marxist Theory
  • Session Plan
• Week 09: Reader-Response Theory and Reception Theory
  • Session Plan
• Week 10: The Biographical Theory, Historicism and New Historicism
• Week 11: The Postcolonial Theory and Cultural Sturies
• Week 12: The Ecocritical Theory
  • Session Plan
•  Week 13: Structuralism, Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
• Week 14: Literary Theory in the Digital Age
•  Week 15:  Constructing the Theoretical Framework of your Research Paper

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ASSESSMENT TOOLS

• Course Modifications
• Assignments: An Overview
• Assignment Topic Approval Policy (NEW)
• Assignment 1: Instructions (NEW)
• Written Test Rubrics
• What Not to Mention in Your Exam Essays
• Student Presentation Instructions
• Presentation Tips
• Presentation Rubric

QUESTION BANK

• What is a Question Bank?
• Question Bank (updated March 5, 2020)

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LITERARY THEORY  DVD

Please contact your course instructor for a copy of this DVD