Undergraduate Course: Tragedy and Modernity (ENLI10079)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| 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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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Other Study Hours 11,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
163 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
1 hour autonomous learning group per week
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
1 essay of 2,500 words (30%);
1 examination essay of 3,000 words (60%)
Class Participation (10%)
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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 | Prof Olga Taxidou
Tel: (0131 6)50 3611
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: |
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