INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND TEXTUAL PRACTICES (TURKISH)

The course is part of the cultural subjects ("caratterizzanti") of the chosen language of the master curriculum..

1. Knowledge and competence
- Skills in Turkish literary studies.
- Insight into the Turkish Intellectual history in the various periods, first of all in modernity.


2. Application of knowledge
- To be able to analyse literary texts
- To be capable to translate prose, poetry and critical texts
- To apply knowledge about the Turkish intellectual history through literary texts.
-To conduct an autonomous research.

Knowledge of Turkish. on level B2

Block I
- Minority literatures in Turkish and literatures on the minorities in Turkey

Block II
- The literary and intellectual development in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century
- The ideological changes in culture during the transition period towards the Turkish Republic

The course will focus on topics of one of the two blocks according to the interest of the the course participants.

- Analysis and translation of literary texts from the periods treated in the course.

Block I: texts by Sait Faik, Ilhan Berk, Roni Margulies, Murathan Mungan, and others, provided during the semester.

Block II:
Çakıroğlu, Ekrem & Yalçın, Murat & Akpınar, Ertekin (eds.) 2003. Tanzimat'tan Bugüne Edebiyatçılar Ansiklopedisi. İstanbul: Yapı ve Kredi Yayınları.
Kolcu, Ali İhsan 2005. Servet-i fünun edebiyatı.Erzurum : Salkımsöğüt.
Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi 1967. XIX Asır Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi. İstanbul: Çağlayan.
Tuncer, Hüseyin 1992. Servet-i fünun edebiyatı. Izmir: Akademi Kitabevi.

Academic paper (ca. 2500 words) on a literary aspect of the Turkish intellectual history form the nineteenth century until today. The topic must be agreed upon in advance, and the paper will be presented and discussed with the instructor.

written and oral

The lecturer has a duty to ensure that the rules regarding the authenticity and originality of exam tests and papers are respected. Therefore, if there is suspicion of irregular conduct, an additional assessment may be conducted, which could differ from the original exam description.

Independently from the attendance modality, evaluation is expressed by the following assessment scale:
18-22:
- sufficient knowledge and capacity to understand what has been requested according to the course program
- sufficient capacity of application of the acquired knowledge through autonomous text analysis
- sufficient capacity of data collecting and interpretation and of autonomous research

23-26:
. average knowledge and capacity to understand what has been requested according to the course program
- average capacity of application of the acquired knowledge through autonomous text analysis
- average capacity of data collecting and interpretation and of autonomous research


27-30:
- good or very good knowledge and capacity to understand what has been requested according to the course program
- good or very good capacity of application of the acquired knowledge through autonomous text analysis
- good or very good capacity of data collecting and interpretation and of autonomous research

The grade of excellence ("lode") is assigned in cases of excellent achievements according to the criteria listed above.

Lecture and seminar (students' presentations)

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development