BEFORE WE BEGIN

• Class Schedule (Fall 2020)
• Welcome to the Course
• Student Information Form (SIF)
• Course Syllabus (Spring 2020)
• 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

• 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)

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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 Formalist Theory
  • Session Plan
  • Formalism: An Overview
• Week 06
  • Oral Test
• Week 07: The Archetypal Theory
  • Session Plan
  • List of Most Common Archetypes in Literature
  • A. E. Housman’s “When I Was One and Twenty”
• Week 08:The Feminist Theory
  • The Feminist Theory
• Week 09
  • Midterm Exam
• Week 10: The Marxist Theory
  • Session Plan
• Week 11: The Ecocritical Theory and the Structuralist Theory
  • Session Plan
• Week 12: Reader-Response Theory and Reception Theory
  • Session Plan
• Week 13:
  • Student Presentations
• Week 14:
  • Student Presentations
• Week 15:
  • Final Exam

ASSESSMENT TOOLS

• Course Modifications (NEW)
• Assignments: An Overview
• Written Test Rubrics
• Assignment 1
• Oral Test
• Oral Test Schedule
• What Not to Mention in Your Exam Essays (SUSPENDED)
• Midterm Exam (SUSPENDED)
• Midterm Assignment (NEW)
• Assignment 2
• Student Presentation Instructions
• Presentation Tips
• Presentation Rubric
• Final Exam (SUSPENDED)

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QUESTION BANK

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

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BONUS-POINT BADGES

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STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (FALL 2019)

 

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (SPRING 2019)

 

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STUDENT PROJECTS

Classical Theories Poster by Ahmed Aljibori

 

Click here to download Ola Ayad’s project (Fall 2019)

 

Ad designed by Rasha Al Shammaa

Click here to download Hadiah Al Bitar project  (Fall 2019)

 

Click here to download Nihal Topcu’s project  (Fall 2019)

 

Ad designed by Rasha Al Shammaa

Click here to download Rasha Al Shammaa’s project (Fall 2019)

Click here to download Husamulddin’s project (Fall 2019)

Click here to download Nazlı Yıldız’s project  (Spring 2019)

 

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LITERARY THEORY  DVD

Please contact your course instructor for a copy of this DVD