Postgraduate Course: The Autonomy of Performance: Concepts and Crafts (ENLI11155)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
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| Course description | This 20 credit course will explore the intertwined development of performance practice and its critical and theoretical language over the longue duree of Western modernity. At its heart will be the discovery and elaboration of concepts and practices specific to performance during that period, and their relationships to other, simultaneous developments in Western theatre. Setting off from the implication of performance in the specifically modernist demand or claim for artistic autonomy, the course will examine various ways in which the theory and practice of theatre and its reception have sought to provide or live up to an understanding of performance as self-grounding. In doing so, the course will also examine the extent to which such an enterprise required an appropriation and exploration of its theatrical inheritance, and the delineation of an ensemble of specifically theatrical powers. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students will:
&· develop a knowledge and understanding of the ways in which performance and theatre have been discussed in various historical and contemporary contexts.
&· be introduced to a range of dramatic and quasi-dramatic material and discourses from different historical periods and cultures, and have the chance to explore differing conceptions of the roles and perceived dangers of dramatic representation and performance in those cultural contexts.
&· be encouraged to contextualise theatrical and dramatic writing, performance and critical writing in terms of its chronological, cultural and geographical specificities.
&· develop a familiarity with the variety of materials that can be used to explore dramatic performance and culture, along with a critical understanding of some of the ways in which the theory and practice of performance have been conceptualised and understood by scholars, past and present..
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Assessment Information
| 4000 word essay or a portfolio of work (100%) |
Special Arrangements
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Olga Taxidou
Tel: (0131 6)50 3611
Email: Olga.Taxidou@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Heather Elliott
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Heather.Elliott@ed.ac.uk |
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