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AMER 427

Topics in Theory for American Culture

Critical and cultural theory as a toolkit for unpacking how American culture produces meaning, knowledge, and power, from the shift between oral and written cultures to Foucault, Gramsci, and contemporary debates on race, gender, and hegemony. You'll work through demanding primary texts (Barthes, Benjamin, Lyotard, Bakhtin, Eagleton) and translate that reading into an essay, homework set, and presentation that force you to actually apply the concepts rather than just summarize them. As a senior requirement in AMCL, it consolidates the historical and literary groundwork from earlier years into a theoretical vocabulary you'll lean on for the graduation essay and any future humanities work.

Kredi3ECTS5FakülteFaculty of Humanities and LettersBölümAmerican Culture and LiteratureKoordinatörKyra SuttonMüfredatY4 Güz
Ön koşulAMER 303 veya AMER 357

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 114–20 Eyl
Derse Giriş ve Genel Tanıtım
Introduction to the course
ders tanıtımı
Hafta 221–27 Eyl
Sözlü kültürden yazılı kültüre geçiş
A. The Transition from Oral to Chirographic Culture: From Rhapsodic Performance to the Written Text. B. Medieval Exegesis. Here, we will examine how a shift from an oral to a chirographic culture fundamentally changed the dynamics of time, memory and identity formation. We will also examine early attempts at managing literary texts and at establishing rules for interpretation, from Alexandrian hermeneutics to the philology of the Renaissance. * Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: the Technologizing of the Word (pages 31-75)
Walter OngOrality and Literacymedieval exegesishermeneutics
Hafta 328 Eyl – 4 Eki
Seküler ve İncil filolojisinin rönesansı
The Renaissance of Secular and Biblical Philology * Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Epic and Novel,”from The Dialogic Imagination.
philologyBakhtinEpic and NovelThe Dialogic Imagination
Hafta 45–11 Eki
Classical poetics ve kamusal alanın doğuşu
A. Classical Poetics Some key terms in aesthetics and literary theory will be introduced here. We will also look into the 18th century emergence of the public sphere, the (relative) autonomisation of art and literature, and the impact of such developments on our current understanding of literature and its role in society.
classical poeticspublic sphereliterary theorysanatın özerkleşmesi
Hafta 512–18 Eki
Aufklärung, beğeni ve kamusal alan
The Auflkärung, the Problem of Taste, and the Emergence of the Public Sphere and Literary Criticism. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: an Introduction. Introduction and chapter 1 *Williams, Raymond “Culture,” from Marxism and Literature.
AufklärungTerry EagletonRaymond Williamspublic sphere
Hafta 619–25 Eki
Bildung Estetiği: Romantizm ve Alman İdealizmi 1
Aesthetics and Literary Theory in the name of Bildung: Romanticism and German Idealism part 1 It is particularly at the end of the eighteenth century that a terminological repertoire was consolidated in aesthetic and cultural inquiry- a repertoire that, to this day, informs our current notions about literature and culture. To examine the late eighteenth century, in other words, is to examine the origins of our current theoretical presuppositions. Accordingly, the central aesthetic categories of the late -eighteenth century will be addressed.
BildungRomanticismGerman Idealismestetik kategoriler
Hafta 726 Eki – 1 Kas
Bildung Estetiği: Romantizm ve Alman İdealizmi 2
Aesthetics and Literary Theory in the name of Bildung: Romanticism and German Idealism part 2 *Jusdanis, Belated Modernity. Pages 89-104 (pages 122-129 and 161-165 are optional)
Jusdanis, Belated ModernityBildungRomanticismGerman Idealism
Hafta 82–8 Kas
Bildung Estetiği: Romantizm ve Alman İdealizmi 3
Aesthetics and Literary Theory in the name of Bildung: Romanticism and German Idealism part 3
BildungRomanticismGerman Idealism
Hafta 99–15 Kas
Midterm tekrarı ve sınav
Week 9 Review for Midterm exam and Midterm exam
midterm reviewmidterm exam
Hafta 1016–22 Kas
Literary ve cultural theory'nin eleştirel incelemesi
In light of the historical considerations addressed in the first part of this course, major currents in literary and cultural theory will be critically examined and summoned to answer the following questions: -What are their methodological and historical presuppositions? -Which problems do they claim or presume to solve? -Do they have an avowed or unavowed social function within the socio-historical configuration within which they operate and from which they derive? * Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: an Introduction. Selected passages
literary theorycultural theoryTerry EagletonLiterary Theory: an Introduction
Hafta 1123–29 Kas
Edebi nesnenin özgüllüğü: Russian Formalism
The Specificity of the Literary Object: Russian Formalism and Semiotics * Shklovsky, Victor. “Art as Technique.”
Russian FormalismsemioticsShklovsky, "Art as Technique"
Hafta 1230 Kas – 6 Ara
Structuralism ve neo-structuralism (Bölüm 3)
Structuralism and Neo-Structuralism. * Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: an Introduction. Chapter 3
structuralismneo-structuralismTerry EagletonLiterary Theory: an Introduction
Hafta 137–13 Ara
Roman kuramı: Bakhtine, Goldman, Lukács
The Theory of the Novel: Bakhtine, Goldman, Lukács. * Goldman, Lucien. Towards a sociology of the Novel. Selected passages
BakhtineLukácsTowards a Sociology of the Novelroman sosyolojisi
Hafta 1414–20 Ara
Fenomenoloji, hermeneutik ve alımlama estetiği
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Reception Aesthetics * Jauss, Hans-Robert. Toward an Aesthetic of Reception. Selected passages.
phenomenologyhermeneuticsreception aestheticsHans-Robert Jauss

Değerlendirme 30% · 3 adım

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Essay Thesis for essay 10%
Homework Reading Responses 10%
Presentations Presentation Proposal 10%
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