{"id":1231,"date":"2021-05-25T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/drama-582-drama-text-analysis\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:59","slug":"drama-582-drama-text-analysis","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/drama-582-drama-text-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama 582 &#8211; Drama Text Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced Critical Theory<br \/>\nWinter 2020<br \/>\nThis course surveys the major critical theories that have informed drama and performance criticism throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. In each unit, we will read foundational critical texts as well as more recent elaborations. For example, for the unit on semiotics, we will read foundational texts on theatre semiotics, as well as Ric Knowles\u2019s 2004 Reading the Material Theatre. This course pursues two objectives: (1) to enhance PhD students\u2019 understanding of critical theory and their ability to use it in their own research; and (2) to make PhD students competent teachers of undergraduate classes in critical theory.<br \/>\nPlease buy or borrow the following books:<br \/>\nPeter Barry, Beginning Theory, 3rd edition<br \/>\nJanet Halley, Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism<br \/>\nRobert Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology<br \/>\nShannon Jackson, Professing Performance<br \/>\nCatherine Clement, The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPlays<br \/>\nAthol Fugard, Statements<br \/>\nGurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Bezhti<br \/>\nPearl Cleage, A Song for Coretta<br \/>\nWole Soyinka, Death and the King\u2019s Horseman<br \/>\nDavid Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1231","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 14:56:43","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\/1231","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=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}