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Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course This course explores the interrelation of literature and the visual arts with an emphasis on the theory of adaptation, ekphrasis and reverse ekphrasis, image-text relationship. Primary texts of the selected periods provide examples of how painting, photography, and film interact with literary texts.
Course Content In this course, a close study will be conducted on the texts such as Shakespeare's Hamlet and Millais's Ophelia, Rossetti's Body's Beauty & Soul's Beauty along with their accompanying paintings "Sibylla Palmifera & Lady Lilith", Shaw's Pygmalion and the movie "My Fair Lady", Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" and its namesake movie adaptation by Kubrick, and Dahl's "Charlie and Chocolate Factory" and its movie adaptation by Burton.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction to Course *AR: 1. Wellek & Warren-->Theory of Literature: Literature and Other Arts, pg:124 2. Roland Barthes-->An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative
2Shakespeare in Victorian Painting Hamlet's Ophelia (1603) AR: 1. Linda Hutcheon --> A Theory of Adaptation, Chapter 1 2. Read Shakespeare's Hamlet, focus on Ophelia's sections
3Shakespeare in Victorian Painting John Everestt Millais's Ophelia (painting) AR:Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, Hubert Zapf --> Handbooks of English and American Studies, Introduction, Part 1: Ekphrasis
4"The Ancient Dualism of Body and Soul" with Reverse Ekphrastic Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Lady Lilith (1866) & Body's Beauty (1881) AR:1.Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, Hubert Zapf --> Handbooks of English and American Studies, Ekphrasis and Poetry 2. V.M.Allen --> One Strangling Golden Hair: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith 3. Read the poem "Body's Beauty"
5"The Ancient Dualism of Body and Soul" with Reverse Ekphrastic Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Sibylla Palmifera (1866-70) & Soul's Beauty (1868) AR: Read the poem "Soul's Beauty"
6"Power of Language in Identity Formation" Through Text-Picture Combination George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1912) AR:Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, Hubert Zapf -->Handbooks of English and American Studies 1. Barbara Straumann --> Adaptation – Remediation – Transmediality 3. Read Pygmalion
7"Power of Language in Identity Formation" Through Text-Picture Combination My Fair Lady (Movie-Director:Georger Cukor-1968) AR:Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, Hubert Zapf -->Handbooks of English and American Studies 2. Maria Marcsek-Fuchs:Literature and Dance: Intermedial Encounters *AW: Watch "My Fair Lady"
8MIDTERM (35%)
9"Free Will: Evil vs. Good" Through Literature in Moving Image Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962) AR: 1. Linda Hutcheon --> A Theory of Adaptation, Chapter 4 2. Read "A Clockwork Orange"
10"Free Will: Evil vs. Good" Through Literature in Moving Image Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962) AR: Finish "A Clockwork Orange"
11"Free Will: Evil vs. Good" Through Literature in Moving Image A Clockwork Orange (Movie-Director:Stanley Kubrick-1996) AW: Watch "A clockwork Orange"
12"Perversion of Childhood" in Adaptation Roal Dahl's Charlie and Chocolate Factory (1964) AR: 1. Linda Hutcheon --> A Theory of Adaptation,Chapter 2 2. Read "Charlie and Chocolate Factory" QUIZ (25%)
13"Perversion of Childhood" in Adaptation Roal Dahl's Charlie and Chocolate Factory (1964) AR: 1. Linda Hutcheon --> A Theory of Adaptation, Chapter 2 2. Finish "Charlie and Chocolate Factory"
14"Perversion of Childhood" in Adaptation Charlie and Chocolate Factory (Movie-Director:Tim Burton-2005) AR: Linda Hutcheon --> A Theory of Adaptation, Finish-Chapter 2 AW: Watch "Charlie and Chocolate Factory"

Resources

1-Handouts and textbooks will be made available at the copy center and uploaded on our UBIS site as needed.