| 0626.4094 מתח בין הז'אנרים Generic Tension as Exploratory Mode | |
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| ד"ר גבריאל ביינר G. Beiner | סמינר מ"א M"A seminar |
| This course deals comparatively with a number of great European plays which use a distinctive dramatic strategy, labelled here 'generic tension' - whether the tension be with the norm of tragedy or of comedy. The course has a double focus, on poetics (defining the distinctiveness of the strategy and at least some of its range on the basis of the plays) and on detailed analysis (using, and hopefully refining or perhaps qualifying, the poetics). Although one of the working assumptions (open to challenge) is that the generic strategy is constitutive in the plays, it is used in the seminar primarily as a point of entry into the texts and their complexity, and also into comparative issues between them. The dominant interest is in the plays as profound and enduring dramatic exploration.
The corpus includes plays by Euripides, Ibsen, Chekhov, Kleist, Synge, Brecht, Lorca, and Shakespeare. All the non-English plays are read in English translation. Hopefully, it will be possible to work with xeroxed texts, and there is no requirement to buy any for the course. The basic list of texts is (bracketed items are for reference, not full analysis): Euripides. Iphigenia at Aulis, Alcestis, The Trojan Women, Hecuba. Ibsen. The Pillars of the Community), The Wild Duck Chekhov. Uncle Vanya, (The Seagull) Kleist. Amphytrion J.M. Synge. The Playboy of the Western World. Bertold Brecht. Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti, (Mother Courage) [If time permits, also: Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida.] | |
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