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Academic Year 2002/2003


The Analysis and Performance of Literature
THEA 211 FA

Crosslistings:
ENGL 211

This course engages an active, experiential and experimental approach to the study of literature through performance across a variety of disciplines, cultures, and genres. By performing different kinds of nondramatic literature--poetry, narrative fiction, and nonfiction texts--we will investigate performance as a particularly powerful way of knowing: an embodied knowledge that offers unique insights into the relationship between human experience and literary texts. In the performance community formed in this class, students will be encouraged to simultaneously broaden intellectual horizons, sharpen critical faculties and writing skills, and imaginatively engage literature as a means of developing individual creative process and personal/artistic voice.

MAJOR READINGS

LITERATURE AND SOCIETY: AN INTRO TO FICTION, POETRY, DRAMA AND NONFICTION. Edited by Pamela J. Annas and Robert Rosen.
COURSE READER (a selection of essays detailing theories, methods, techniques, and strategies for the analysis and performance of literature).

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Performances of poetry, short stories, and non-fiction texts. Three short analytical papers (5 pages). In-class oral critique of performances. Final exam.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Performance

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA THEA    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003


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