COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MODERN PLAYWRITING TECHNIQUES AND INTERTEXTUAL RELATION I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SSA 5115 MODERN PLAYWRITING TECHNIQUES AND INTERTEXTUAL RELATION I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Performing Arts

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HÜLYA NUTKU

Offered to

Performing Arts

Course Objective

Writer s manners of modern and postmodern texts and authors in contemporary theater, techniques they employ, improvements in usage of time and place, areas of discussion, place concept that is ruled by ambiguity, negative and positive phenomenon togetherness in characters, phenomenon of audience following the theme, new dramaturgical approaches, reader or audience centered works and basic aspects that shape them.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Primarily aspects of modern text
2   Then aspects shaped postmodern text
3   Modern and postmodern text writing s basic concepts and text examples realted with that application
4   Intertextual relations
5   Evaluating contemporary theater with text examples and 20 21st century theater with writer examples

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition of the concepts modern, modernity, contemporariness
2 What we understand of modern text Modern Theater
3 Main aspects of modern text ( guidance of reason and science)
4 Example surveys among modern texts ( Uyarca/ Frank V / Sonsuz Döngü / Amy nin Bakışı/ Beş Parmak Egzersizi/ Kahramanlar Alanı/ Dünyanın Başkenti Mr.Speer etc.)
5 Postmodernism against modernism Is postmodernity, modernism s end Emotions are coming forth unlike the mind getting confused
6 Romanticism s role in emergence of postmodernity
7 Aspects of a postmodern text
8 Reflections of postmodernity over art of acting
9 The position of place perception in postmodernity
10 Midterm Exam
11 The writers in the roots of postmodernism: covering the play, first cult Beckett s Waiting For Godot
12 Concepts of pastische collage bricolage, irony, popularism etc.
13 Concepts of palimpsest masquerade and metafiction etc.
14 Concepts such as excerpt, plagiarism, hidden excerpt etc.

Recomended or Required Reading

Primary Source: Aktulum Kubilay, Metinlerarasılık//Göstergelerarasılık,Kanguru Yay.Ank.2011
Aktulum,Kubilay, Metinlerarası Ilişkiler,Öteki Yay,Ank,1999
Aktulum,Kubilay, Kopuk Yazı/Kopuk Yapıt,Öteki Yay, Ank 2002
Aktulum, Kubilay, Parçalılık/Metinlerarasılık, Öteki yay,Ank,2004

Contributive Sources:
Şener,Sevda, Oyundan Düşünceye
J.L.Borges in,Roland Barthes ın,Julia Kristeva nın, Baudrillard `simülasyon kuramı ,Tahsin
Yücel in,Riffaterre in,G.Deleuze,J.Derrida,P.Feyereband,M.Foucault,F.Guattari,E.Hobsbaw,
J.Lacan,J.F.Lyotard,,S.Connor,U.Eco.I.Hassan,F.JamesonC.JencksN.Zeka,G.TuranM.Sarup, F. Keyman,M.Küçük,S.N.Platt, G.Lukacs and the other authors work about modernity and postmodernity
Nutku Özdemir,Gösterim Terimleri Sözlüğü, Inkilap-Aka Yay.Ist,1998
Yamaner,Güzin, Postmodernizm ve Sanat, algı yayın, Ank,2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical introduction, introduction about technical aspects in model plays, evaluation of interesting writing technique examples, original text in intertexual relations, introduction and interpretation of searches of new text

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 +FCG * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 RST RESIT MTE * 0.20 +ASG * 0.20 +RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

All data about evaluation and decided methods are valid.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

(If the instructor does any announcements, this entry will be used.) Due to the code of the course attendance, participation, continuity in reading the texts, presentation in the light of main concepts and ability to support an individual idea, discipline

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 3 14 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 6 5 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing presentations 2 15 30
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 148

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.25
LO.335
LO.45
LO.553