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DRAMA 583 A: Analysis of Dramatic Texts

Meeting Time: 
TTh 2:30pm - 4:50pm
Location: 
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SLN: 
13399
Instructor:
Scott Magelssen
Scott Magelssen

Syllabus Description:

This course focuses on the emerging "knowledge formation" of performance studies. It includes discourses concerning the
relationship between text and practice; performance as a reflection of society, a witnessing to an experience, or a challenge to social structures or ways of knowing; emerging ideas of audience reception theory; and so forth.  By the end of the course, students will have

  1. a basic comprehensive knowledge of some of the canonical theorists and texts associated with performance studies,
  2. a knowledge of several recent case-studies to which these theories can be applied for deeper understanding, and
  3. a knowledge of the ways in which meaning is produced through both textual and performative discourses.
Catalog Description: 
Analytic approaches to dramatic materials, concentrating on semiotics, Marxism, feminism, or a related critical theory.
Credits: 
5.0
Status: 
Active
Last updated: 
January 25, 2021 - 10:50pm
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