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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with THEALITCRITHIST · returned 15 results
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CLAS 116 Ancient Drama: Truth in Performance 6 credits
The tragic and comic stage offered the Greeks and Romans a public arena for addressing such fundamental topics as love, family, justice, and the divine. Although the written word has fortunately preserved many ancient plays, the proper vehicles for their communication remain, as their authors intended, the stage, the voice, and the body. This course will therefore address a variety of ancient tragedies and comedies with special attention, not only to their themes, but to the manner of their performance, culminating in student-driven, adaptive productions that put into practice skills and expertise developed in the class.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2023
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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CLAS 116.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Johannes Wietzke 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CLAS 116.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Johannes Wietzke 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CLAS 116.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Clara Hardy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 3:10pm-4:10pm
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CLAS 116.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ENGL 116 The Art of Drama 6 credits
An exploration of drama approached as literature and in performance. New digital resources enable us to take world-class productions from the National Theatre and elsewhere as our texts. Drawing examples both globally and across time, we will consider plays and recent productions in their historical and cultural contexts. Students will develop critical vocabularies, debate interpretations, and hone their interpretive and rhetorical skills in writing reviews and essays. Additional time required for viewing performances.
- Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 116.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 116.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Peter Balaam 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 144 Shakespeare I 6 credits
A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare’s career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare’s genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft (“page to stage”). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare’s highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Note: Declared or prospective English majors should register for English 244.
Cross-listed with English 244
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 144.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
- T, THMusic & Drama Center TENT 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENGL 205 “Passing Strange”: Shakespeare’s Othello and its Modern Afterlives 3 credits
One of the most intimate and devastating plays in all dramatic literature has also continuously been at the center of societal debates around race, representation, and civil rights. Moving from Shakespeare’s Renaissance to important historical and civil rights figures like Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson to reimaginings by contemporary artists, we will explore how Othello has served as a vehicle for social change. The class will be taught in conjunction with the campus visit of writer, actor, and anti-apartheid activist Bonisile John Kani, OIS, OBE, the first Black actor to play Othello in South Africa.
1st 5 weeks
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 206 William Shakespeare: The Henriad 3 credits
Shakespeare’s account of the Wars of the Roses combines history, tragedy, comedy, romance, and bildungsroman as it explores themes of power, identity, duty, family, love, and friendship on an epic scale. We will read and discuss Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, and Henry V, and attend the Guthrie Theater’s three-play repertory event.
Extra time
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 209 The Merchant of Venice: A Project Course 6 credits
This interdisciplinary course will explore one of Shakespeare’s most controversial and complex plays, The Merchant of Venice. We will investigate the play’s historical, political, religious, and theatrical contexts as we try to understand not only the world that produced the play, but the world that came out of it. How should what we learn of the past inform a modern production? How can performance offer interpretive arguments about the play’s meanings? Individual and group projects may involve research, writing, dramaturgy, program design, and exhibition curation. Students will be actively involved in a full-scale Carleton Players production of the play.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 209.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 182 3:10pm-4:55pm
- T, THWeitz Center 136 3:10pm-4:55pm
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ENGL 209.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤 · Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 214 Revenge Tragedy 3 credits
Madness, murder, conspiracy, poison, incest, rape, ghosts, and lots of blood: the fashion for revenge tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean England led to the creation of some of the most brilliant, violent, funny, and deeply strange plays in the history of the language. Authors may include Cary, Chapman, Ford, Marston, Middleton, Kyd, Tourneur, and Webster.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 214.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
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1st 5 weeks
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ENGL 219 Global Shakespeare 3 credits
Shakespeare’s plays have been reimagined and repurposed all over the world, performed on seven continents, and translated into over 100 languages. The course explores how issues of globalization, nationalism, translation (both cultural and linguistic), and (de)colonization inform our understanding of these wonderfully varied adaptations and appropriations. We will examine the social, political, and aesthetic implications of a range of international stage, film, and literary versions as we consider how other cultures respond to the hegemonic original. No prior experience with Shakespeare is necessary.
Second 5 weeks
- Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 219.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
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2nd 5 weeks
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ENGL 244 Shakespeare I 6 credits
A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare’s career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare’s genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft (“page to stage”). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare’s highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Note: non-majors should register for English 144.
Cross-listed with ENGL 144
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 244.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
- T, THMusic & Drama Center TENT 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENGL 258 Contemporary American Playwrights of Color 6 credits
This course examines a diverse selection of plays from the 1960s to the present, exploring how different theatrical contexts, from Broadway to regional theater to Off-Off Broadway, frame the staging of ethnic identity. Playwrights and performers to be studied include Amiri Baraka, Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, George C. Wolfe, Luis Valdez, David Henry Hwang, August Wilson, Philip Gotanda, Maria Irene Fornes, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Anna Deavere Smith. There will be occasional out-of-class film screenings, and attendance at live theater performances when possible.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 258.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 281 London Program: Literature, Theater, and Culture in Tudor and Stuart England 6 credits
The course focuses on the relationship between literature and material culture during the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. This era of violence, plague, war, superstition, imperial expansion, and the slave trade also saw a flourishing of writing, science, technology, music, architecture, and the visual arts. Studying the literary works, theaters, historical sites, and artifacts of the period, students will explore what life was like in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Living London
- Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS London Program
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ENGL 282 London Program: London Theater 6 credits
Students will attend productions (at least two per week) of classic and contemporary plays in a range of London venues both on and off the West End, and will do related reading. We will also travel to Stratford-upon-Avon for a 3-day theater trip. Class discussions will focus on dramatic genres and themes, dramaturgy, acting styles, and design. Guest speakers may include actors, critics, and directors. Students will keep a theater journal and write several full reviews of plays.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Living London
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS London program
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ENGL 381 Literature, Theater, and Culture in Tudor and Stuart England 6 credits
The course focuses on the relationship between literature and material culture during the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. This era of violence, plague, war, superstition, imperial expansion, and the slave trade also saw a flourishing of writing, science, technology, music, architecture, and the visual arts. Studying the literary works, theaters, historical sites, and artifacts of the period, students will explore what life was like in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
For students pariticipating in OCS London Program
- Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or permission of instructor
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THEA 228 Performing Women 6 credits
Through a performance studies lens, this course analyzes performances of gender and race in American theatre, focusing on female-identified artists of color. Our starting questions are: How do we read “woman” on stage and how have artists disrupted or supported dominant understandings of “woman” through theatrical performances? Additionally, how have artists intentionally challenged this gender binary in performance? Among other artists, we examine the work of Angelina Weld Grimké, Kristina Rae Colón. Larissa FastHorse, Teatro Luna, Young Jean Lee, and Aditi Brennan Kapil. At the end of the course students move from an analysis of performance to creation of their own performance pieces.
- Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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THEA 228.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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THEA 255 August Wilson: History and the Blues 6 credits
This course will explore the ten plays that comprise August Wilson’s “Century Cycle.” Wilson wrote one play for each decade of the twentieth century, exploring the movement of African-Americans, in critic John Lahr’s words, “from property to personhood.” Wilson’s work, inspired by the Black Arts movement of the 1960’s-70’s is rooted musically in the Blues, the African American musical form at the root of modern American popular music. We will read these plays, informed by the Blues, against the major historical events in African-American life during each of the decades they represent.
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THEA 255.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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