ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Classical, French and Italian Philology
Areas: French Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
That students acquire the theoretical and practical tools to address the analysis of contemporary theatre performances and emerging writings within the evolution of theatre since the emergence of modern performance
To enable students to understand the phenomenon of writing and emerging literary practices, particularly in the case of theatre.
That students can be provided with appropriate tools for the analysis of literary/cultural emergence, mainly in the field of theatre.
That students can represent the relationships between ideology, commitment and literature (in particular in the case of theatre).
To make students aware of the relationships between emerging writings and repertoire, as well as new forms of relationships between innovation and tradition in contemporary theatre.
a. Discourse and difference: post-modern rewriting. The example of the theatre.
Introduction to the emerging writings in the theatre from the point of view of the transformation of the traditional dramatic categories.
b. Hybridization processes. The example of the contemporary theatre.
A theoretical introduction to the analysis of theatrical representation from a historical perspective.
c. Postcoloniality.
d. Social identities and cultural dynamics in today's theatre.
e. Contemporary forms of the Baroque in today's theatre.
Ashcroft, B.; Griffiths, G. Tiffin, H, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Literatures, Londres: Routledge, 1989.
Brancato, S., Afro-Europe: Texts and Contexts, Berlin, Trafo Verlag, 2009.
Cheng Meiling, Cody Gabrielle H. (eds.) Reading comtemporary performance. Theatricality across genres. New York, Routedge, 2016.
Fischer-Lichte, Erika, Semiótica del teatro, Madrid, Arco Libros, 1999.
Helbo, André, Signes du spectacle, Des arts vivants aux médias, Peter Lang, 2006.
Leehman, H.-Th., Le théâtre postdramatique, L´Arche, 2006.
Mcleod, J., Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2010 (second Edition).
Moura, Jean-Marc, Littératures francophones et théorie postcoloniale, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1999.
Roubine, Jean-Jacques, Introduction aux grandes théories du théâtre, Paris, Bordas, 1990.
Pavis, Patrice, Diccionario del teatro. Dramaturgia, estética, semiología, Barcelona, Paidós, 2002.
Pavis, Patrice, Dictionnaire de la performance et du théâtre contemporain, Paris, Armand Colin, 2014.
Required readings
The compulsory readings will be indicated at the beginning and during the course.
Complementary bibliography
The bibliographic material in each thematic unit will be expanded.
- To give students an overview of the most important innovative trends in theatre from the late 19th century to the present day
- That students acquire theoretical tools for the analysis of theatrical representation and contemporary dramatic writing.
- That students have an understanding of some of the most important theatrical theory texts from the late 19th century to the 21st century.
- That students have an updated vision of the theoretical and methodological systems in the field of literary studies with respect to the points addressed in the program.
- That students can approach the notion of literature in a broader way through its relationship to new media, theatre, cinema, the arts, as well as to generic, social and cultural diversity.
This course will include a theoretical presentation, and practical analyses where the texts of the compulsory readings will be commented on and fragments of theatre performances, especially videos, will be analysed.
The course includes a total of 24 teaching hours, of which 3 will be tutorials
Language: Spanish.
The final mark will result from
- Attendance and participation in the different activities of the sessions (50%)
- The completion of the final work and its presentation, as well as the resolution of the exercises that are raised during the sessions, in which the acquisition of the general and specific competences indicated will be demonstrated. (50%)
The evaluation system at the second opportunity of the call will consist of a paper (50% ) and an exam (50%)
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and the Revision of Grades shall apply.
1 hour of individual work of 1 hour of class
Class attendance is mandatory.
A large portion of the class will be based on performance analysis.
Participation in class is decisive for the development of the class.
Manuel Garcia Martinez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Classical, French and Italian Philology
- Area
- French Philology
- Phone
- 881811836
- manuel.garcia.martinez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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