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Course Unit Title Course Unit Code Type of Course Unit Level of Course Unit Year of Study Semester ECTS Credits
Story Analysises In Modern Turkish Literature TDE225 Elective Bachelor's degree 2 Fall 4

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Gonca ARKON TEKİNEL
Associate Prof. Dr. Pelin ASLAN AYAR
Associate Prof. Dr. Cem Yılmaz BUDAN

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Students will have a basic understanding of Turkish story.
2) Students will acquire reading strategies and analyzing methods in approaching to modern Turkish stories.
3) Students will be able to discuss and write about sociological context of a given story and related matters.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

  Program Competencies
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Learning Outcomes
1 Low Middle Low Middle Middle Low High High High High High
2 Low Middle Low Middle Middle Low High High High High High
3 Low Middle Low Middle Middle Low High High High High High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

This course starting from the Tanzimat period aims to analyze and interpret stories by prominent writers in Turkish literature. Story is explained in terms of narratology; through components of a story like narrator, protagonist, time, space and techniques of a story like internal analysis, internal monologue and stream of consciousness story analyzing is taught. Through Samipaşazade Sezai the Tanzimat period, through Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil and Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar the Servet-i Fünun period, through Ömer Seyfettin, Refik Halit Karay, Halide Edip Adıvar and Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu the National Struggle period, through Memduh Şevket Esendal and Reşat Nuri Güntekin the Republican period’s stories are investigated. Stories by Sait Faik within his specific style and stories by Haldun Taner within his avant-garde style are focused additonally. Through Sabahattin Ali, Orhan Kemal, Füruzan, Adalet Ağaoğlu ve Yaşar Kemal social realist story, through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, Vüs’at O. Bener, Bilge Karasu modernist story, through Oğuz Atay, Murat Gülsoy, Tomris Uyar, Özen Yula, Murathan Mungan postmodernist story are interpreted.

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods



Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade

40%

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

60%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required