{"id":1288,"date":"2021-05-25T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/german-582-seminar-in-drama\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:06","slug":"german-582-seminar-in-drama","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/german-582-seminar-in-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"German 582: Seminar in Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nIt is surprising for modern readers of Aristotle\u2019s Poetics to realize that recognition (anagnorisis: one of the three constitutive parts of the dramatic plot) has to be conceived of as an action in the world rather than an internal operation of the mind. How can recognition consist in performance rather than cognition? In this course we will investigate texts and plays to explore this fundamental concept of theatrical practice and theory. Our syllabus looks into three different scenes of recognition: Homecoming; Epistemology; and the Mirror. Together, these three scenes comprise the knowledge of self, other, and the relation between the two. We will begin our journey where Odysseus finished his: with his arrival on Ithaca. After examining the performance of Homer\u2019s epic, we\u2019ll turn to several stage versions of the Odyssey from Calderon to Botho Strauss. Next, the performative production of knowledge will provide a stage to investigate the difference between comic and tragic recognition (Shakespeare, Goethe). Finally, we\u2019ll turn to self recognition by reflecting on the trope of the mirror in Plato, Shakespeare, and B\u00fcchner. As Aristotle\u2019s concepts of anagnorisis and praxis provide a theoretical impetus from the beginning of our investigation, Hannah Arendt\u2019s inflection of action will give us an opportunity in the final sessions to consider recognition again in its performative, ethical, and political dimensions. Readings in English and German; discussions in English.<br \/>\nWeekly Readings:<br \/>\nAristotle, The Poetics; The Physics (sel.)<br \/>\nScenes of Homecoming: Leaving and Returning<br \/>\nHomer, The Odyssey, xii-xxiv (Auerbach, \u201cOdysseus\u2019 Scar\u201d)<br \/>\nShakespeare, Pericles; Calderon, El mayor encanto, amor<br \/>\nMonteverdi, Il ritorno d&#8217;Ulisse in patria; Botho Strauss, Ithaka<br \/>\nScenes of Knowledge: Comic or Tragic Recognition?<br \/>\nShakespeare, King Lear, As You Like It (Cavell, \u201cAvoidance of Love\u201d)<br \/>\nGoethe, Faust I; scientific and autobiographical writings (sel.)<br \/>\nMirror Scenes: The Politics of Recognition<br \/>\nPlato, Alcibiades I; Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida<br \/>\nB\u00fcchner, Dantons Tod; Shakespeare, Measure for Measure<br \/>\nArendt, The Human Condition; Hegel, Ph\u00e4nomenologie des Geistes (sel.)<br \/>\nConference Panels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1288","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 12:01:19","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\/1288","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=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}