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DRAMA 582 A: Analysis Of Dramatic Texts

The Body in Performance

Meeting Time: 
MW 2:30pm - 4:50pm
Location: 
HUT 150
SLN: 
13009
Instructor:
Stefka Mihaylova Photo
Stefka Mihaylova

Additional Details:

This course explores how three major twentieth-century discourses about the body—feminism, queer theory, and disability theory—have informed western performance practice and scholarship. While we will review the history of these three discourses, we will mostly focus on how they have evolved in the last decade and on their relevance to present-day performance scholars. We will also examine how, as the theoretical questions changed, different types of sources became important to scholarly discussions: text-based drama, non-dramatic theatrical performance, and non-theatrical social performance practices. We will place our conversation in the larger context of western intellectual history, including events such as the linguistic turn and the affective turn.

Catalog Description: 
Analytic approaches to dramatic materials, concentrating on semiotics, Marxism, feminism, or a related critical theory.
GE Requirements: 
Other Requirements Met: 
Status: 
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Last updated: 
April 28, 2016 - 12:43pm
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