EXPERIMENTAL WRITING SYLLABUS

Course Code			AKE 4006
Name of the Course			Experimental Writing
Instructor			Dr. Arsev A. Arslanoğlu
Office			Block:A Room: 114
Office Hours			Friday 10:30-12:00
E-mail			arsev@yahoo.com
Course Description			The objective of this course is to enable students to perceive literature and art not only in terms of narrative context but as “techne” (a cognitive activity with form or technique) as well.
Course Requirements			Students are expected to come to class having read the assigned text and participate in the discussion.
The book/books to be used			Given below.
Attendance			Minimum %70
Grading			There will be one midterm examination (50%) and a final examination (50%)
Week	Date		Schedule
1	04.03	08.03	Introduction to the course: Content and Objective
2	11.03	15.03	What is language-oriented writing?
3	18.03	22.03	Language-oriented poetics of Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein
4	25.03	29.03	Language-oriented poetics of Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein
5	01.04	05.04	Russian Futurist Poetry
6	08.04	12.04	Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky and James Joyce: A Comparative Reading
7	15.04	19.04	Kurt Schwitters
8	22.04	26.04	Jackson MacLow
9	29.04	03.05	Midterm Examination
10	06.05	10.05	L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein
11	13.05	17.05	Canadian Language-Oriented Writing: BpNichol, Bill Bisset and Christian Bok
12	20.05	24.05	Canadian Language-Oriented Women’s Writing: Nicole Brossard
13	27.05	31.05	American Post-Feminist Language-Oriented Women’s Writing: Susan Howe ve Anne Carson
14	03.06	07.06	Ethnical Experimental Writing: Selections from Nathaniel Mackey
15	10.06	14.06	Concluding Remarks