Announcement: SEMINAR NOVEL + FINAL EXAM MAKE-UP 2019

Dear Students,
I have announced both your grades for Seminar Novel and the dates for the Final Make-Up Exams.
I would kindly suggest that you check the uni-system and e-mail me if you are going to take/ have to take the Make-Up.
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European Night of Museums 2019

http://msurs.net/index.php/en/dogadjaji-6/noc-muzeja/98-evropsk-noc-muzej-2015-godine-3

Celebrated every year on the Saturday just before International Museum Day. This year, the European Night of Museums will be held during the night of 18 to 19 May 2019. Created in 2005 by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication, the event inspires museums to open their doors to the public until 1:00 a.m. and free of charge. By welcoming the public at night, museums provide visitors with a new perspective on their collections, applying a more creative and sensory approach.
source: ICOM
Here is a list of free museums in Turkey:
https://arkeofili.com/18-mayis-aksami-muzeler-herkese-ucretsiz/

Announcement: Final Exams 2019, SEMINAR NOVEL

Dear Students,
I have announced your Comp Lit II Final Exam and American Poetry II grades. Pls check the uni-system.
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For Seminar Novel (Those who did not attend the last lecture): pls focus on Sapphire's novel "Push", Butler's short story "Bloodchild", The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick, and Grace Paley's short stories "Wants”, “Mother”, "A Man Told Me the Story of His Life" or “Samuel”. Pls focus on the writing style, inspiration of the writer and the context to these works.
good luck
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Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. -Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1868

                                                     Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Paintings

“The blessed damozel lean'd out

From the gold bar of Heaven;

Her eyes were deeper than the depth

Of waters still'd at even;

She had three lilies in her hand,

And the stars in her hair were seven.” 

― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, original name Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, (born May 12, 1828, London, England—died April 9, 1882, Birchington-on-Sea, Kent), English painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner. Dante Gabriel was the most celebrated member of the Rossetti family.
for more pls read: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti

“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Robin Wright, https://fantasywire.co.uk/about-us/

“Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"

"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.” 

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Born on May 9, 1860, in Scotland, J.M. Barrie was a Scottish dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan in 1904, or The Boy Who Would Never Grow Up. The son of Scottish weavers, he moved to London to pursue his interest in becoming a playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired his masterpiece. Based on Barrie's enchanting characters, Disney created the animated classic, Peter Pan, in 1953.
for more pls read: https://www.biography.com/writer/jm-barrie
audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wft2h9meClw
colorful info on the book: http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/lycee/berthollet.annecy/IMG/pdf/peter_pan_jm_barrie.pdf
Peter Pan, the book: https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Barrie/Kens/Peter_Kens.pdf

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice." -Bob Marley

Dark Matter by Olli Kekäläinen, Ana Gavila

On Being Brought from Africa to America

BY PHILLIS WHEATLEY

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,

Taught my benighted soul to understand

That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:

Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.

Some view our sable race with scornful eye,

"Their colour is a diabolic die."

Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,

May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

Born today Phillis Wheatley was both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman.
The publication of her "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" (1773) brought her fame both in England and the American colonies leading to historical figures such as George Washington praising her work.
for more pls read: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley

Prezi for Comparative Literature II

in case you can't open the prezi pls e-mail me.
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