Universität Wien

120132 AR Literature Course (Interactive) 325 = Literature 1/2 (MA) American/North American Lit./Studies (2009W)

The South on the Stage

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

Diese LVA gilt für das Masterstudium Anglophone Literatures and Cultures 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. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 08.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 15.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 22.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 29.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 05.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 12.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 19.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 26.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 03.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 10.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 17.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 07.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 14.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 21.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Thursday 28.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Since the "Southern Renaissance" various aspects of the distinct social reality of the American South have been represented in a number of plays by writers such as Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Paul Green, and Horton Foote. The interactive course is intended to offer opportunities for analyzing some of their plays (and film versions which popularized them) by looking at representations of the issues of race, ethnicity, the traditional code of honor, the decline of the old gentry and patterns of behavior in various social segments in the different sub-regions of the South.
Texts to be discussed will include Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Orpheus Descending, and The Rose Tattoo, dramatized and/or film versions of Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding, and of Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. We shall also consider one play each by the playwrights Horton Foote and Paul Green.

Assessment and permitted materials

Oral presentation of the topic chosen or assigned; an essay of 10-15 pp. is to be submitted at the latest four weeks after the presentation; students are also expected to hand in two reports not exceeding two pages on sessions dealing with other plays staging the South; regular attendance, active participation in class.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To study the dramatic depiction of various segments of Southern society and the treatment of issues such as race and ethnicity, class (including the conflict between advocates of the New South and traditionalists), and sex.

Examination topics

Participants in this interactive course will be asked to offer oral presentations based on a close reading of one play (and its film version[s] if accessible). Discussion of selected scenes and selections of the issues treated in the plays and film adaptations.

Reading list

The participants are expected to purchase the Reader including several scenes from dramatized versions of the fictions by McCullers and Lee and segments from plays by Foote and Green and one play by L. Hellman. FACULTAS on Campus has been informed of the need of participants to purchase paperback editions of Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes, and Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays.

For more information visit http://homepage.univie.ac.at/waldemar.zacharasiewicz/news.htm

Association in the course directory

Diplom 343, UF 344, MA 844

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