{"id":1287,"date":"2021-05-25T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/german-582-c-lit-596-seminar-in-drama\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:06","slug":"german-582-c-lit-596-seminar-in-drama","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/german-582-c-lit-596-seminar-in-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"German 582, C Lit 596 &#8211; Seminar in Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing can be read on its own. All texts are always already enmeshed in con-texts: the webs of readings that inform the author\u2019s work; the network of books and films that make up a reader\u2019s horizon. This course will explore this pluralistic condition of reading. We will examine theoretical interventions in citationality, intertextuality, and reader-response criticism. Principally, however, we will engage authors who make intertexts central to their work. Shakespeare\u2019s plays are stitched together from many sources. Like Frankenstein\u2019s monster, the amalgam lives a life of its own beyond the promise of its constituent parts. Shakespeare, in turn, served as a talismanic model for the iconoclastic plays of J.M.R. Lenz, a leader of the Storm and Stress movement in the 1770s. Finally, both Shakespeare and Lenz (and Lenz\u2019s Shakespeare) feature prominently in Georg B\u00fcchner\u2019s works in the 1830s, which inspired both naturalism and surrealism in the century after his death.<br \/>\nMain texts: Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Love\u2019s Labor\u2019s Lost; Lenz, Remarks on the Theater, The Tutor; B\u00fcchner, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, Danton\u2019s Death, Woyzeck; Robert Wilson and Tom Waits, Blood Money<br \/>\nDiscussion in English. Readings available in English translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1287","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:00:28","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\/1287","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=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}