| Course Objectives: |
The course titled “Reality of Fiction, Fiction of Reality” is planned to discuss, deepen and comparatively examine these two important concepts, which have been defined in different contexts from the past to the present, in the light of all literary data, especially literary works and philosophy, by addressing them through oral, written or visual texts. In this direction, in a wide temporal and intellectual spiral that can be extended from classicism to the postmodernism of the twenty-first century, while analyzing how fiction and reality are positioned, why they replace or oppose each other, and with what purposes and motives they become a tool or a goal, students will both sense in the most general sense how any concept can enter into a relationship with another concept and, in a specific sense, try to approach the products of fiction and reality in the age they live in with a critical perspective. |
| Course Objective: |
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Critical Thinking: Approach or gain the ability to question any given information or body of information from a broader perspective.
Conceptual Awareness: Discover the permeability of any concept, especially within the category of social sciences, and encounter or develop a different way of thinking about them that can affect their entire academic life.
Philosophical Content: Gain general knowledge about classicism, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism, or develop the ability to deepen the knowledge they have acquired about them.
Artistic Content: Develop the ability to interpret texts or visuals encountered in the categories of literature, cinema, theater, painting, etc. from a certain perspective.
Social Relations: Experience the impulses of the course to object or rethink in a collective classroom environment, and increase the free, respectful and qualified side of self-expression, and gain or develop a new self-awareness.
Qualified Reading: Both literature, cinema, etc., which are included in the category of fiction, Acquires or improves the skill of reading qualified texts in fields such as media, newspapers, magazines, history, etc., both in the field and in the field of reality. |
| Mode of Delivery: |
E-Learning
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| Knowledge
(Described as Theoritical and/or Factual Knowledge.)
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1) He/she approaches or acquires the skill of questioning any information or body of information given to him/her from a broader perspective.
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2) He/she discovers the permeability of any concept, especially within the category of social sciences, and encounters or develops a different way of thinking about them that can affect his/her entire academic life.
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| Skills
(Describe as Cognitive and/or Practical Skills.)
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| Competences
(Described as "Ability of the learner to apply knowledge and skills autonomously with responsibility", "Learning to learn"," Communication and social" and "Field specific" competences.)
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1) Gain general knowledge about classicism, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism or develop the ability to deepen the knowledge acquired about them.
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2) Develops the ability to interpret texts or images encountered in the categories of literature, cinema, theatre, painting and art from a certain perspective.
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3) Acquires or improves the skill of reading qualified texts in both the fields of fiction such as literature, cinema, etc. and the fields of media, newspapers, magazines, history, etc. that are categorized as reality.
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4) While experiencing the impulses of opposition or rethinking in a collective classroom environment, students acquire or develop a new self-awareness by increasing the free, respectful and qualified side of self-expression.
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| Related Preparation |
Pekiştirme |
| 1) |
● Definition of concepts in social sciences or discussion of the possibility of definition
● Transitivity of concepts in social sciences
● How the concepts of “fiction” and “reality” are defined in general and philosophical dictionaries or theoretical books on literary theory
● Commonalities and differences of these definitions |
| 2) |
● The compatibility of fiction with human ontology, Examples of Iliad and Dede Korkut
● What is the boundary between fiction and reality?
● What makes a material we have “fiction” or “real”?
● How are these given boundaries violated?
● Is a news text “fiction” or “real”? |
| 3) |
● General characteristics of classicism and romanticism and ways of seeing/constructing the world
● Perception of fiction and reality in classicism and romanticism
● Two selected sample texts and a letter from the classical and romantic perspective:
Moliere's School for Women and Goethe's Faust, a letter from J. G. Hamann |
| 4) |
● General characteristics of the realism movement
● Discussion on the possibilities and limits of the realism/realism movement
● Through the example of Stendhal's "mirror": What does Stendhal's mirror say, what does it not say?
● How "realistic" are "real" novels?
● Comparison of photography and reality, realism, through Susan Sontag's comments on the art of photography (Looking at the Pain of Others)
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| 5) |
● What is modernism, its definition
● Concepts of modernism, modernist and modernity
● Reality of modernism and modernist fiction
● Reality breakdown following World War II
● “Modern-realities” through Kafka’s Metamorphosis
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| 6) |
● Discussion and commentary on a single text by Fredric Jameson “Realism/Modernism Debate”
● Comparison of Jean François Millet’s “The Gleaners” and Paul Klee’s “The Revolution of Viaduks” |
| 7) |
MID-TERM EXAM |
| 8) |
Impossible Reality and Postmodernism
● Postmodernism and postmodernist art
● Modernism and postmodernism comparison
● J. Baudrillard's concepts of "simulacra" and "simulation"
● Newspaper headlines in the twenty-first century as seen by Baudrillard |
| 9) |
● The relationship between literature and reality
● Don Quixote's adventure of creating his own reality
● An examination and discussion activity on Don Quixote becoming "real" in a twenty-first century novella
(Based on Carlos Maria Dominguez's Paper House)
● Terry Eagleton's novel characters "living" today through the concepts of fiction and reality |
| 10) |
● The relationship between history and fiction
● The criteria that transform historical texts into “fiction”
● Where does the “reality” of history begin and end?
● Interpretation of literature and history in the context of fiction and reality |
| 11) |
● What is ideology, what does it aim for?
● The power of ideology to shape or create reality
● The dominance of fiction over ideology
● The relationship between ideology and fiction through Nazım Hikmet's play "Was There or Was Not There Ivan Ivanoviç?" |
| 12) |
● Analyzing the realities of how Eastern and Western civilizations view each other through selected “fictional” texts
● The West’s view of the East through Ahmet Haşim’s “Gurebahâne-i Laklakan” article
● The East’s view of the West through Ahmedî’s İskendernâme
● The appearance or invisibility of the East in a BBC documentary |
| 13) |
● The relationship between the act of selection and display and fiction
● The relationship between museums and fiction
● The narrative created by museums
● The “reality” or “unreality” of museums as a place
● The example of the British Museum |
| 14) |
● Whether works accepted as fiction can address every issue in external reality
● Ways fiction reveals reality through what it does not tell
● Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" painting
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| 15) |
● Man's view of himself as a fiction
● The possibility of autobiography as reality
● The "reality" of autobiographies "constructed" on social media
● The construction of autobiography through Sait Faik's story "A Dot on the Map" |
| References: |
Eglaton, Terry. (2017). Tanrının Ölümü ve Kültür. İstanbul: Yordam Kitap.
Bauman, Zygmunt. (1998). Sosyolojik Düşünmek. İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları.
Hoffman, Gerhard. (2005). From Modernism to Postmodernism. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi.
Berman, Marshall. (2023). Katı Olan Her Şey Buharlaşıyor. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
Sontag, Susan. (2017). Başkalarının Acısına Bakmak. İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı. |
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| Q & A |
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| Case Problem Solving/ Drama- Role/ Case Management |
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| Laboratory |
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| Quantitative Problem Solving |
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| Fieldwork |
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| Group Study / Assignment |
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| Individual Assignment |
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| WEB-based Learning |
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| Internship |
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| Practice in Field |
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| Project Preparation |
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| Report Writing |
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| Seminar |
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| Supervision |
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| Social Activity |
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| Occupational Activity |
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| Occupational Trip |
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| Application (Modelling, Design, Model, Simulation, Experiment et.) |
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| Reading |
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| Thesis Preparation |
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| Field Study |
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| Student Club and Council Activities |
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| Other |
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| Logbook |
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| Interview and Oral Conversation |
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| Research |
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| Watching a movie |
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| Bibliography preparation |
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| Oral, inscribed and visual knowledge production |
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| Taking photographs |
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| Sketching |
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| Mapping and marking |
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| Reading maps |
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| Copying textures |
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| Creating a library of materials |
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| Presentation |
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| Semester Requirements |
Number of Activities |
Level of Contribution |
| Attendance |
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% 0 |
| Laboratory |
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% 0 |
| Application |
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% 0 |
| Practice Exam |
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% 0 |
| Quizzes |
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% 0 |
| Homework Assignments |
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% 0 |
| Presentation |
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% 0 |
| Project |
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% 0 |
| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) |
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% 0 |
| Field Study |
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% 0 |
| Article Critical |
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% 0 |
| Article Writing |
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% 0 |
| Module Group Study |
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% 0 |
| Brainstorming |
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% 0 |
| Role Playing + Dramatizing |
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% 0 |
| Out of Class Study |
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% 0 |
| Preliminary Work, Reinforcement |
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% 0 |
| Application Repetition etc. |
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% 0 |
| Homework (reading, writing, watching movies, etc.) |
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% 0 |
| Project Preparation + Presentation |
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% 0 |
| Report Preparation + Presentation |
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% 0 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation + Presenting |
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% 0 |
| Oral examination |
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% 0 |
| Midterms |
1 |
% 40 |
| Final |
1 |
% 60 |
| Practical Final |
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% 0 |
| Report Submission |
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% 0 |
| Bütünleme |
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% 0 |
| Bütünleme Pratik |
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% 0 |
| Kanaat Notu |
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% 0 |
| Committee |
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% 0 |
| Yazma Ödev Dosyası |
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% 0 |
| Portfolio |
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% 0 |
| Take-Home Exam |
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% 0 |
| Logbook
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% 0 |
| Participation |
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% 0 |
| Discussion |
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% 0 |
| total |
% 100 |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK |
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% 40 |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK |
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% 60 |
| total |
% 100 |
| Activities |
Number of Activities |
Workload |
| Course Hours |
16 |
30 |
| Laboratory |
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| Application |
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| Practice Exam |
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| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) |
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| Field Work |
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
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| Article Critical |
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| Article Writing |
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| Module Group Study |
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| Brainstorming |
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| Role Playing + Dramatizing |
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| Out-of-Class Study (Pre-study, Reinforcement, Practice Review, etc.) |
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| Homework (reading, writing, watching movies, etc.) |
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| Project Preparation + Presentation |
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| Report Preparation + Presentation |
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| Presentation / Seminar Preparation + Presenting |
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| Oral examination |
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| Preparing for Midterm Exams |
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| MIDTERM EXAM (Visa) |
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| Preparing for the General Exam |
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| GENERAL EXAM (Final) |
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| Participation |
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| Discussion |
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| Portfolio |
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| Take-Home Exam |
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| Logbook
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| Total Workload |
30 |
| ECTS (30 saat = 1 AKTS ) |
1 |
