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By close readings of selected canonical European plays since Ibsen and relevant critical/theoretical writings on modern European theatre and cultural history, this course is a study of modern European drama with an emphasis on its significations in the cultural production and reproduction of Western modernity from a cross-culturally informed, global perspective. While the complex relations between dramatic form and content of the period and their transformations shape the focus of the course, the tension-ridden interactions of dramatic texts, theatrical productions, and cultural histories of modern Europe since the 1890s will be explored. A selected body of post-colonial dramas will be included to broaden the scope of our explorations of such interactions. Video-tapes will be used.
Moreover，this class is designed to introduce MA graduate students specialized in theatre to a range of ideas and plays central to the field of modern drama and its criticism. By working through a selection of dramatic, critical and visual materials, we explore such notions as "the story teller," "society of the spectacle," "biopolitics," "poetics of space," "performance community" and more that constitute the foundational components in the making of theatre arts as socially significant cultural practice.
The class format consists of lectures, videos, Q&A, and Students-Study-Groups activity.
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Section I: Modern Problems
Week 1-2
[I]: Introduction to the Syllabus
[II]: Writing your responses to the questions in the space provided on the sheet.
[III]: In the Arts and the Worlds: An Opening Dialogue
Lecture:
"'The Storyteller': Theatre and Community"
Reading: Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller, in Course Reader I
Week 3-4:
Lecture:
"Dramatic Art and Its Modern Crisis: Human Community without Humans?"
Reading: Chapters 1, 2, 3 of Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle, in Course
Reader I
Week 5:
Lecture:
"Amid Simulacra: Artistic Reality?"
Reading: Jean Baudrillard, The Procession of Simulacra and the Orders of Simulacra,
in Course Reader I
Lecture:
"Truth and Power: Governmentality and Human Creativity"
Reading: Foucault, The Eye of Power, Truth and Power, Docile Bodies, Preface to The
History of Sexuality, in Course Reader II
Section II: Modern Stories
Week 6: Case I
Lecture:
"Ibsen and His A Doll's House"
Reading: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
January 31 (Wed)
Continuing Lecture:
"Tropes of Home: Modern Drama and Its Central Questions"
Week 7: Case II
Lecture:
"Brecht and His Mother Courage and Her Children"
Reading: Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children
Continuing Lecture:
"Modern Theatre and Global Wars"
Week 8-9: Case III
Lecture:
"Pirandello and His Six Characters in Search for Author"
Reading: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search for Author
Continuing Lecture:
"At Home in the World?--the Subject Question"
Week 10: Case IV
Lecture:
"Suspended Homes:
Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the Turning Point in Modern Theatre"
Reading: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Week 11-12: Case V
Lecture:
"Soyinka and His Death and King's Horseman"
Reading: Wole Soyinka, Death and King's Horseman
Continuing Lecture:
"The Question of 'Other' People's Homes: New Times"
Section III: Acts of Imagination
Week 13-14:
Lecture:
"Of Other Spaces: Environmental Events and Live Performance [I]"
Reading: Michel Foucault, Questions on Geography, Of Other Spaces, in Course Reader
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"Poetics of Space: Environmental Events and Live Performance [II]"
Reading: Gaston Bachelard, House and Universe, The Dialectics of Outside and Inside;
and Kern Stephen, The Nature of Time, The Nature of Space in Course Reader II
Week 15
March 12 (Mon) & March 14 (Wed)
Students' Presentation and Performance:
Theme:
"Stories of Homes, Performances of Spaces"
Seven Groups, each group has 10 minutes.
Week 16-17:
Review: Comparative Perspectives
Final Take-Home Exams Due
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Students are required to compose one 2.5 page long paper, typed, double space, which is due on Week 5 or Week 15.
*Students can choose to write and hand their papers in either on Week 5 or Week 15.
*Two lists of topics are provided on Week 4 and Week 7 respectively, serving as guidance for students to choose their topics.
*Students are encouraged to make appointment with TA Mr. Cha (by e-mail) to discuss their choice of topics.
Seven Students-Study-Groups are established in the first class of Week 1 (January 8), each group with two elected Students-Group-Leaders. There are two in-class mini-symposia on Week 10, where Students-Study-Groups present their analytical works based on their projects, and conduct Q&A Sessions with the other four/three Students-Study-Group members. Students-Group-Leaders are responsible for organizing and leading their groups to prepare their mini-symposium presentations, and will receive due recognition in the form of extra credit. Innovative forms for the presentations at the mini-symposia are most strongly encouraged. A "Guideline" for Students-Study-Groups activity and Mini-Symposia will be provided on Week 2.
A final take-home exam is due on the final day of the class at 4:00pm. Three questions for the take-home exam are provided in the last class on March 14; students should choose one question to respond with a 2.5 page long written text including bibliography.
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30% Class Participation, Concentration, Contribution, and Students-Study-Group Activity.
30% Reading Diary
20% Mini-Symposium Presentation
20% One Take-home Exam
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