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120012 SE Literary Seminar / BA-Arbeit / MA British/Irish/New English (2010S)

Contemporary Drama: Challenging the Audience

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

Diese LVA gilt für das Masterstudium nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 18 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 11.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 18.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 25.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 15.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 22.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 29.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 06.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 20.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 27.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 10.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 17.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 24.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar will explore plays by various contemporary authors (from the 90s to the present day) with a focus on their potential to challenge the audience. We will analyse the texts in terms of their strategies to intrigue, to excite, to irritate, to tease or to perplex the readers/spectators. The dramatic methods employed may aim at deconstructing traditional modes of perception, moral orthodoxies or distinctions between reality and fiction as well as between different levels of fictionality.

Assessment and permitted materials

regular attendance, oral presentation, active participation in class discussions, research paper (20-25 pages), final written test.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

introduce students to cutting-edge drama in English, to postmodern contemporary plays, their production, and their reception in the theatre as well as in the reading process.

Examination topics

introduction to the theory and analysis of drama and audience response; contextualisation of plays; students' presentations, class discussions.

Reading list

: a reader will be provided at the beginning of term; it will include plays by Harold Pinter, Alan Bennett, Neil LaBute, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Patrick Marber and Richard Bean.

Association in the course directory

Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612, MA 812
LI 12-0216, SP-Code 322, 326/328, 336/338, 821, 721-723 / BA12 / M04, M07

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