Undergraduate Course: Tragedy and Modernity (ENLI10079)
Course Outline
School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | This course explores the attempts made by various schools of theatre to revive the concept of tragedy within modernity. The crisis in enlightenment thinking triggers a debate about the possibility (or impossibility) of the tragic. The various schools of performance tackle this issue in differing and sometimes conflicting ways. Athenian Tragedy provides a set of conventions and concepts that are reworked in modernist fashion. At the same time, it provides an example of the vexed relationships between modernity, tradition and classicism. As a reconfiguration of the sublime, the aesthetic or the political, the tragic, as form and content, helps create new languages of performance. Through the works of Ibsen, Strindberg, Wilde, O'Neill, Brecht, Beckett and Heiner Muller this course examines the types of tragedy formulated within modernity. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- to familiarise students with classical as well as modern theories of tragedy
- to examine the significance of psychoanalysis for tragic theory
- to familiarise students of the significance of performance conventions
- to create awareness of movements of performance
- to create a comparative approach between the different playwrights and to assess the significance of tragic theory within general literary theory
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Contacts
Course organiser | Dr David Overend
Tel:
Email: david.overend@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Anne Budo
Tel: (0131 6)50 4161
Email: a.budo@ed.ac.uk |
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