Course Description
A comparison of current critical approaches to theatre and performance.
Athena Title
Seminar in Critical Methods
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This seminar is designed to give a working knowledge of the wide range of critical approaches employed by theatre and performance scholars today.
Topical Outline
The Changing Nature of Theatre and Performance Studies Paradigms Past Psychoanalysis Semiotics and Structualism Deconstruction Phenomenology Reader-Response/Audience Studies Materialism and Politics New Historicism Feminisms Queer Theory Performance Studies, Anthropology, and Multiculturalism Speech Act Theory and Performativity Cultural Studies Postmodernism
Syllabus
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