Ordu University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
ENG2122016136	ENGLISH ROMAN-II	Compulsory	2	4	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To introduce students to the novel genre by concentrating on the question “what is a novel?” and on the techniques, aspects and forms that set out a distinction between the novel and other literary forms such as romance, epic and short story; to equip students with an understanding of the English novel and its rise and development in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Erdinç PARLAK

Learning Outcomes

1	Be able to distinguish the peculiar aspects of the novel as a genre from those of romance and epic.
2	Have knowledge about the social, philosophical and political developments that paved the way to the emergence of the novel in Europe and particularly in England.
3	Be able to trace the development of the novel in English literature in relation to other cultural developments.

Mode of Delivery

Formal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Differences and the similarities between the romance and the first examples of the novel; Major aspects of the novel as a genre; rise of the novel in English literature; ideological and cultural extentions of the rise and development of the novel; Samuel Richardson, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	What is a Novel? Definitions and Distinctions: Romance, Amatory Fiction, the Novel	Lecture Discussion
2	Relationship between the Individual and Society; the Englishness of the English Novel Lecture Reading (Bakhtin, “Epic and the Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel”; Terry Eagleton, “What is a Novel?”).	Discussion
3	Epistolary Novel Samuel Richardson, Pamela The historical context: urbanization, industrialization, democratization	Lecture Reading (Pamela,) Discussion
4	Samuel Richardson, Pamela The historical context: urbanization, industrialization, democratization	Lecture Reading (Pamela,) Discussion
5	Samuel Richardson, Pamela Discussion on Richardson and Fielding as the founding fathers of the English novel	Lecture Reading (Pamela,) Discussion
6	Quiz Bildungsroman: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield	Lecture Reading (David Copperfield,) Discussion
7	Novel and Narration Charles Dickens, David Copperfield	Lecture Reading (David Copperfield,) Discussion
8	Novel and Narration Charles Dickens, David Copperfield	Lecture Reading (David Copperfield,) Discussion
9	Midterm	Written Exam
10	Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure Criticism of Social Institutions: Education, Class and University	Lecture Reading (Jude the Obscure,) Discussion
11	Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure Criticism of Social Institutions: Marriage	Lecture Reading (Jude the Obscure,) Discussion
12	Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure Emergence of the New Woman Darwin and Naturalism	Lecture Reading (Jude the Obscure,) Discussion
13	Quiz E. M. Foster, Maurice The English novel at the turn of the twentieth century	Lecture Reading (Maurice,) Discussion
14	E. M. Foster, Maurice Masculinity, the English society and Homosexuality	Lecture Reading (Maurice,) Discussion
15	E. M. Foster, Maurice Otherness and Margins	Lecture Reading (Maurice,)Discussion
16	Final	Written Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

Required Reading: Samuel Richardson, Pamela. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure E. M. Forster, Maurice Bakhtin, M. M. “Epic and the Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel”, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. pp. 3-40. Eagleton, Terry. “What is a Novel?”, The English Novel: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. pp. 1-21. Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel. London: Penguin Classics, 2000. Recommended Reading: Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. USA: Heinle&Heinle, 1999. Booth, C. Wayne. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: UCP, 1983. Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of the Novel. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Clifford, James L. Ed. Eighteenth Century English Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Dipple, Elizabeth. The Critical Idiom: Plot. Ed. John D. Jump. London: Methuen&Co., 1970. Doody, Margaret Anne. The True Story of the Novel. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. Eagleton, Terry. The English Novel: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Kelly, Gary. English Fiction of the Romantic Period: 1789-1830. USA: Longman, 1989. Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin Books, 1992. Parla, Jale. Don Kişot’tan Bugüne Roman. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2000. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. London: Pimlico, 2000. Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of culture and society. London: Fontana Press, 1988.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
SUM		0
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
SUM		0
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri		40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	15	2	30
Discussion	5	1	5
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	8	2	16
Individual Study for Final Examination	14	2	28
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			82

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15	PO 16	PO 17	PO 18
LO1		4	3			4	5					5		3			3
LO2	4			5						4				4		4	3
LO3		5			3	4					4			3				5

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High