Ä°DE619 - BRITISH WOMEN NOVELISTS

Course Name Code Semester Theory
(hours/week)		 Application
(hours/week)		 Credit ECTS
BRITISH WOMEN NOVELISTS Ä°DE619 Any Semester/Year 4 0 4 7.5
Prequisites
Course languageEnglish
Course typeElective 
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-Face 
Learning and teaching strategiesLecture
Discussion
Question and Answer
Brain Storming
Other: Textual Analysis, Oral Presentation, Preparing a Term Paper  
Instructor (s)Department members 
Course objectiveThe aim of this course is to enable the student to acquire the knowledge, skills and competence required to analyse the stylistic and thematic features of British women novelists within historical and socio-cultural and political framework. The course follows a chronological survey of British women novelists and takes a few examples from each era and analyze them in comparison. This course also focuses on contemporary women novelists, their place in literary movements (such as postmodernism and posthumanism). 
Learning outcomes
  1. 1. recognises the British women novelists and their contributions to the novel genre.
  2. 2. understands and interprets their work.
  3. 3. analyzes different cultural and social contexts in relation to women writers and interprets their dynamics.
  4. 4. knows women novelists' styles.
  5. 5. knows contemporary literary developments, feminist theories, and the 20th and 21st century women novelists.
  6. 6. knows the women novelists' target audience within the British society and discusses their effect.
  7. 7. develops a critical understanding of women's writing from the 18th century to posthuman developments in British novel.
Course ContentIn this course the women novelists from the 18th century to the present are introduced in the light of changing cultural, literary, and social dynamics. The place of women writers in different periods, their education, and how they are represented in cultural and literary texts in comparison to the male writers are analysed.  
ReferencesDale Spender. Mothers of the Novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen
Eva Figes. Sex and Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1850
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Women Writers and the Nineteenth century Literary Imagination
Brigid M. Mac Carthy. Women Writers: Their Contribution to the English Novel 1621-1744
Elaine Showalter. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing
Patricia Waugh. Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern
Linda Hutcheon. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction.
Patricia Waugh. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.
Katherine N. Hayles. My Mother was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.
Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman. Eds. Material Feminisms.
Other relevant books and/or articles.
 

Course outline weekly

WeeksTopics
Week 1Introduction to the women writers from the 18th century to the present
Week 2Introduction to the subgenres of the novel and exemplifying them
Week 3Discussion of the selected chapters from Dale Spender's Mothers of the Novel
Week 4An analyses of the representation of the women in teh works of Charlotte Lennox ve Sarah Fielding
Week 5Analysis of the selected chapters from Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic .
Week 6Analysis of a selected woman novelist from the Victorian period
Week 7Analysis of a selected woman novelist from the Victorian period
Week 8Mid-Term Exam
Week 9Analysis of the novels of Bronte Sisters
Week 10Analysis of the Modernist period and the novels of Virginia Woolf
Week 11Analysis of the Modernist period and the novels of Virginia Woolf
Week 12Mid-Term Exam
Week 13Analysis of the works of postmodern women writers
Week 14Analysis of the works of postmodern women writers
Week 15Final Exam
Week 16Final Exam

Assesment methods

Course activitiesNumberPercentage
Attendance00
Laboratory00
Application00
Field activities00
Specific practical training00
Assignments15
Presentation15
Project00
Seminar00
Midterms240
Final exam150
Total100
Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes450
Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes150
Total100

WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION

Activities Number Duration (hour) Total Work Load
Course Duration (x14) 14 4 56
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application000
Specific practical training000
Field activities000
Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect)14342
Presentation / Seminar Preparation11414
Project000
Homework assignment13030
Midterms (Study duration)22448
Final Exam (Study duration) 13535
Total Workload33110225

Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes

D.9. Key Learning OutcomesContrubition level*
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1. Has expert knowledge in English language and literature, and culture.    X
2. Has expert knowledge of literature, literary genres and literary terms.   X 
3. Has the necessary theoretical interdisciplinary knowledge to research and interpret texts of various genres in English literature in historical, social, cultural, economic, political, philosophical, and ecological contexts.    X
4. Develops advanced critical, creative and analytical thinking skills.    X
5. . Collects knowledge about English language, literature, and culture by utilizing information technologies and research methods, in both individual and collective work, and shares it in professional national and international educational environments.    X
6. Analyses literary and cultural texts using related theories and an interdisciplinary approach.    X
7. The student has the necessary knowledge and skill for teaching English language, literature and culture in national and international environments.   X 
8. Conducts interdisciplinary research with critical and creative thinking skills, solves problems, and expresses the results in national and international professional and social contexts.    X
9. Examines English literature, culture, history, and society through both curriculum-based and extracurricular activities, develops an unbiased and open-minded attitude toward their own culture and other cultures.   X 
10. Adopts an unbiased, respectful and open-minded attitude concerning different religions, languages, races, sexes and social classes.   X 

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