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| IDE6710 | Dramatic Theories and Criticism | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Group study, Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Fehmi TURGUT | | Co-Lecturer | Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Zeki ÇIRAKLI | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | to study how theories of the theatre change and interact with one another
to investigate theoretical developments in theatre and their connections with
theatre history and dramatic literature
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| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Students acquire knowledge of the major theorists and theoretical movements in theatre. | | | | PO - 2 : | They will be able to talk about the guiding questions and critical frameworks that form a common vocabulary for contemporary theatre theories, movements, and conventions | | | | PO - 3 : | They will be able to learn how knowledge of this theoretical background can be put into | | | | PO - 4 : | They will be able to develop research questions in the study of drama and answer these questions producing academic texts | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course deal with the development of various dramatic theories from Aristotle to the present time. It analyzes texts that have played some very influential roles in shaping the form of dramatic genre. The course puts much of its emphasis on theories and analyses of the major traditional dramatic texts. It also dwells on conceptions of drama with practical applications in the dramatic texts. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Literary/Dramatic Theory, Literary/Dramatic Criticism and Literary/Dramatic Study | | | Week 2 | The Nature of Drama
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
| | | Week 3 | Classical Age
Platonic view vs. Aristotelian view
| | | Week 4 | Shakespearean Drama | | | Week 5 | Romanticism in Drama
| | | Week 6 | Conventions of Realist and Naturalist Theatre | | | Week 7 | Anti-Realism and Anti-Naturalism in Drama | | | Week 8 | Seminars and Presentations | | | Week 9 | Modernist and Post-modernist Nature of Drama | | | Week 10 | Brecht's Theory of Drama | | | Week 11 | Theatre of the Absurd / Absurdity | | | Week 12 | Political Theatre | | | Week 13 | Feminist Drama | | | Week 14 | Theatre of Migration | | | Week 15 | A General Review | | | |
| 1 | Critical theory today by Lois Tyson | | | 2 | A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present by M. A. R. Habib | | | 3 | The Art-Work of the Future By Richard Wagner | | | 4 | Bertolt Brecht?s Dramatic Theory by John J. White | | | 5 | Laughter: An Essay on the meaning of Comic by Henri Bergson | | | 6 | Contemporary American Drama by Annette J. Saddik | | | 7 | Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-war British Playwrights by Michael Patterson | | | 8 | British Realist Theatre by Stephen Lacey | | | 9 | Radical Tragedy by J. Dellimore | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | | | | | | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Total work load | | | 42 |
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