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Academic Year 2004/2005

The Analysis and Performance of Literature
THEA 211 SP
Crosslistings:
ENGL 211
LAST 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. 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

To be selected.
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.

COURSE FORMAT: Performance

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: THEA245 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005

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