{"id":1215,"date":"2021-05-25T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/drama-575-seminar-in-theatre-history-4\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:56","slug":"drama-575-seminar-in-theatre-history-4","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/drama-575-seminar-in-theatre-history-4\/","title":{"rendered":"DRAMA 575 Seminar in Theatre History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the cellars of the Vatican, as narrow and winding as catacombs, there is a strange enormous graveyard.\u00a0 It is of parts of ancient statues, thrown on the ground in a rough classification, feet in one heap, then knees, then whole legs, and so on.\u00a0 There is something particularly poignant about the fingers and elbows.\u00a0 There are also parts of dogs and wild boars, and once the head of a Parthenon horse was found there.&#8221; &#8211; Eleanor Clark, Roman Journal<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The past, it seems, is always awaiting ordering:\u00a0 sorting, assembling, telling, re-assembling, and re-telling.\u00a0\u00a0 In the case of the ancient statues, the Vatican&#8217;s criteria was anatomical: &#8220;feet in one heap, then knees.&#8221;\u00a0 With only fragments to go on, one choice may be as informed or arbitrary as another, and often is.\u00a0 The ancient statues might just as well have been ordered, say, by sculptor, or century, or subject.\u00a0 Or the pieces might be left utterly unordered in some monstrously dismembered, post-modern montage of feet, spears, and hydras.\u00a0 As it is, the elbows of Roman statuary co-exist with Renaissance re-makes, sharing only a common form, staring profuse and ambidextrously across the centuries.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The historian\u2019s compulsion to order, to assemble and narrativize the past, and the problems of historigraphy are the subject of this doctoral seminar.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Using a field of study, each student their own, we examine the problems of evidence, of narrative, of the genres and voicings of history.\u00a0 The end goal is to develop a tool kit of historigraphical styles, genres, approaches, available to the student, and suited to the field of study at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1215","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 00:31:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}