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  • New  18 Feb. 04 After a prolonged vacation due to the heavy snow  in Istanbul, u r welcome to the Spring Semester 04. By the first week students in my classes are supposed to read the first texts in the lists provided in the course Syllabi available on this Site.   

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  • 02May 2003  Mid term exams for students in ACL 436 and ELL 438 will be held on 05 May 2003. Midterm Exam for students in ELL 240 will be held on 14 May 2003 

  • .06 Feb 2003 Welcome to my classes for the Spring Semester 2003. U r urgently requested to access the web pages related to your courses. Familiarize urself with their contents. Purchase the required course material, read as much as u can through it, and come to class well prepared

  •  29 August 2002. Check your  summer school grades in the grades page. 

  • 19 August 2002. The final exam for Comparative Narrative Analysis will be on the 26th of August @ 11 oclock. The final exam for Literary Criticism will be on the 27th of August @ 11 oclock.


  • 12. April 2002. Below is the timetable for the coming midterm exams:

Code Course Day Date Time Place
Ell 232 Poetry Tuesday 30 April 02 9-10 B312
Ell 372 Lit. Theory Thursday 25 April 02 13-14 B306
Ell 438 Analysis Wednesday 1 May 02 9-10 B 303

 

  • 2. March. 2002. Urgent. All NEW students enrolled in my classes are requested to fill in the evaluation form available at this link. Just click at the active link in blue, then when u see the form, print it, then fill it with the requested data, and hand it in before the 15th of March 2002. If U could not click at the blue link here, go to the Home page and click at the Evaluation Form link there


  • 22. Nov. 2001. Literary Criticism exam will be held on 10. Dec. 2001 at 9. am. 17th Century poetry exam will be held on 11. Dec. 2001 at 9. am. And Comparative Narrative Analysis Exam will be held on 12. Dec. 2001,  at  9. am


  • 27. Sept. 2001. Urgent. All students enrolled in my classes are requested to fill in the evaluation form available at this link. Just click at the active link in blue, then when u see the form, print it, then fill it with the requested data, and hand it in before the 15th of October 2001. If U could not click at the blue link here, go to the Home page and click at the Evaluation Form link there


  • 28. Oct. 2000. "Essays on Literary Theory" is a new link added to my page. U may access it directly by clicking at the link in the first page, or through the MA program Link. The new addition accommodates a collection of articles on literary theory, with special focus on Reader-Response theories.

 The following book titles are available in my office for students use:

 

1.      Abdul R. Jan Muhamed. Manichean Aesthetics.

2.      Albert E. Kalson. Laughter in the Dark: the Plays of Alan Ayckbourn

3.      Andrew Bennet. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory  

4.      Andrew Bowie. Hermeneutics and Criticism

5.      Barry Smart. Postmodernity

6.      Bernard J. Paris. Imagined Human Beings

7.      Cathrine Blackledge. The Story of V: Opening Pandora’s Box

8.      Charles E. Bressler. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice  

9.      Chris Horrocks. Baudrillard for Beginners

10.  Christopher Norris. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice

11.  Christopher Norris. What is Deconstruction?

12.  David M. Friedman. A Cultural History of the P***s

13.  Duncan Heath. Introducing Romanticism

14.  Edward Said. Orientalism

15.  F. Nietzsche. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

16.  Frantz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth

17.  Fredric Jameson. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

18.  Fredric Jameson. The Cultural Turn 

19.  Geoffrey H. Hartman. Criticism in the Wilderness: the Study of Literature Today

20.  Gerald L. Bruns. Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

21.  Guycook. Discourse

22.  H. Aram Veeser. Confessions of the Critics

23.  H. Aram Veeser. The New Historicism

24.  Homi K. Bhabha. The Location of Culture

25.  Hugh J. Silverman. Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

26.  I. A. Richards. Practical Criticism

27.  Isaac Asimov. Words from the Myths

28.  Issa J. Boullata. Critical Perspectives on Modern Arabic Literature

29.  J. Hillis Miller. Theory Now and Then

30.  Jane P. Tompkins. Reader-Response Criticism From Formalism to  Post-Structuralism

31.  Jean Baudrillard. Seduction

32.  Jean Baudrillard. Simulacra and Simulation

33.  Jessie L. Watson. From Ritual to Romance

34.  Jonathan Culler. Literary Theory

35.  Julia Christeva. Desire in Language: a Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

36.  Julia Christeva. In the Beginning was Love

37.  Julie Adam. Versions of Heroism in Modern American Drama

38.  Keith Booker. A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism

39.  M. M. Bakhtin & P. N. Medvedev. The formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A critical Introduction to Sociological poetics

40.  M. M. Bakhtin. The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship

41.  Maden Sarup. Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World

42.  Marion Baldock. Greek Tragedy: an Introduction

43.  Michael A. Sells. Mystical Language of Unsaying

44.  Michael Foucault. Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison

45.  Michael Foucault. This is not a Pipe

46.  Michael Holt. Alan Ayckbourn

47.  Nicole Loraux. Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman

48.  Northrop Frye. Anatomy of Criticism

49.  Octavio Paz. The Labyrinth of Solitude

50.  Peter Szondi. Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics

51.  Pierre Macherey. Theory of Literary Production

52.  Raymond Williams. Marxism and Literature

53.  Raymond Williams. Reading and Criticism

54.  Richard Lahan. The City in Literature

55.  Robert R. Magliola. Phenomenology and Literature

56.  Robert Stam. Subversive Pleasure: Bakhtin Cultural Criticism and Film

57.  Rodney Simard. Postmodern Drama

58.  Roland Barthes. Criticism and Truth

59.  Roland Barthes. The Pleasure of the Text

60.  Rosalyn Diprose. Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference

61.  Suzanne P. Stetkevych.  The Mute Immortals Speak

62.  T.S. Dorsch. Classical Literary Theory

63.  Terry Eagelton. Introduction to Literary Theory

64.  Toril Moi. Sexual/Texual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory

65.  Umberto Eco. The Role of the Reader : Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts

66.  Vincent J. Rosivach. When a Young Man Falls in Love

67.  Wilfred L. Guerin, etal.  A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature

68.  Wolfgang Iser. The Implied Reader

  1. Ziauddin Sardar. Introducing Cultural Studies

 

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