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
ENG4032016136	LITERATURE THEORIES AND CRITICISM-I	Compulsory	4	7	4

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

This course aims to motivate students to provide a background in the history of literary criticism and to examine successive eras and individual critics. It also aims to encourage the students to discover different criteria applied to literature in successive periods.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Öğr. Gör. İbrahim Koç

Learning Outcomes

1	Become acquainted with the ideas and concepts that inspired and sustained literary output as the most prominent writers and critics.
2	Understand basic concepts related to literary theory.
3	Be motivated to reflect on the value and function of literature through changing times.
4	Be prepared to formulate his/her own opinions and concepts.
5	Recognize the historical and the cultural background of the texts.
6	Develop an understanding and appreciation of literature in general and literary texts in particular.

Mode of Delivery

Formal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

As this course is devoted to surveying the history of literary criticism, it starts with a consideration of what Plato, Aristotle and Horace had written on the subject and examines the writings of their successors up to the end of the 19th century.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction	...
2	Review of the course syllabus and introduction to literary criticism	Discussion
3	Plato: Republic, from Book X, pp. 33-45.	Reading/ Discussion
4	Aristotle: Poetics, pp. 48-66.	Reading/ Discussion
5	Horace: Art of Poetry, pp. 68-75.	Reading/ Discussion
6	Longinus: On the Sublime, pp. 77-102.	Reading/ Discussion
7	Dante: Letter to Can Grande Pella Scala, pp. 121-123. Boccacio: Life of Dante, from Chapter IX & X, pp. 125-127	Reading/ Discussion
8	Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry, pp. 155-77.	Reading/ Discussion
9	John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, pp. 228-57	Reading/ Discussion
10	Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism, pp. 278-86. Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare, pp. 329-36.	Reading/ Discussion
11	William Wordsworth: Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads, pp. 433-43. Samuel Coleridge: Biographia Literaria, from chapter XII, XIII, XIV pp. 468-471.	Reading/ Discussion
12	Matthew Arnold: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, pp. 583-95.	Reading/ Discussion
13	Hippolyte Taine: from History of English Literature, pp. 602-14.	Reading/ Discussion
14	Henry James: The Art of Fiction, pp. 661-670.	Reading/ Discussion
15	Review	...
16	Final	...

Recommended or Required Reading

Course Book: Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. By Hazard Adams. Recommended Reading: Moran, Berna. Edebiyat Kuramı ve Eleştiri. Adams, Hazard, ed. Critical Theory Since Plato. New York: Harcourt, 1971. Atkins, G. Douglas, and Laura Morrow, eds. Contemporary Literary Theory. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. Con Davids, Robert, and Laurie Finke, eds. Literary Criticism and Theory: The Greeks to the Present. New York: Longman, 1989. Crane, R. S., et al. Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952. Jefferson, Ann, and David Robey. Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction. 2nd ed. London: Batsford, 1986. Rice Philip, and Patricia Waugh, eds. Modern Literary Theory; A Reader. 2nd ed. London: Arnold, 1992. Schorer, Mark, et al. Criticism: The Foundations of Modern Literary Judgement. New York: Harcourt, 1958. Selden, Raman, ed. The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present. New York: Longman, 1988. Selden, Raman, and Peter Widdowson. A Readers Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. 3rd ed. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993. Watson, George. The Literary Critics. London: Woburn Press, 1973. Wimsatt, William K., and Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

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

İngilizce

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	1	1
Quiz	10	1	10
Attending Lectures	14	2	28
Self Study	14	3	42
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	9	2	18
Individual Study for Final Examination	12	2	24
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			124

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	2		3		4		2	5			2		3		4		5
LO2		2		3		4			2	5		2		3		4		5
LO3	3		4		5		5	2			3		4		5		2
LO4		3		4		5			3	2		3		4		5		2
LO5	4		5		2		2	3			4		5		2		3
LO6		4		5		2			4	3		4		5		2		3

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