“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
Aldous Huxley

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis

“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
E. M. Forster

“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare”
George Bernard Shaw

“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
William Hazlitt

“I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.”
James Joyce

“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
Leslie Fiedler

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing”
Aristotle
Contact Information
info.ell@bayar.edu.tr
uekucukboyaci@hotmail.com
Welcome to the Department of English Language and Literature at Celal Bayar University-Manisa. Founded in 1997 by Prof. Dr. Yüksel USLU, the department now offers graduate and undergraduate courses ranging from Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the Novel to Romanticism, English and Contemporary Drama, Gothic Fiction, English Poetry, Criticism, and Literary Theory. Undergraduate students are required to complete VIII Academic Semesters and present a thesis for graduation. Graduate students complete II Academic Semesters and move on to their dissertation study for the second year.Contact us at info.ell@bayar.edu.tr or uekucukboyaci@hotmail.com for more information.

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis

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