{"id":1359,"date":"2021-05-25T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/scand-504-a-contemporary-literary-theory\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:20","slug":"scand-504-a-contemporary-literary-theory","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/scand-504-a-contemporary-literary-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAND 504 A: Contemporary Literary Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This course approaches major questions about literature, performance, and temporality by exploring the dramas of Henrik IBSEN while also thinking about our current theoretical interest in the FUTURE.<br \/>\nIbsen (1828 to 1906) is sometimes called the &#8216;father of modern drama.&#8217; He is an analytical playwright, more frequently associated with the ghosts of the past than with the future. At the same time, his late works take a profound interest in characters&#8217; desires to survive, to &#8216;make good&#8217; after experiences of profound loss, and to move on. Our BIG question is thus, What does Ibsen have to say about and to the future, including our own &#8216;post-feminist&#8217; era?<br \/>\nOver the course of the quarter, we will work our way from the past to the future, which will be defined in three primary ways:<br \/>\n1. Ideologies of the future<br \/>\nWhat futurisms, or beliefs and philosophies about the future, are found in Ibsen&#8217;s plays and then reproduced in criticism? Can the plays be used to talk back to normative ideas about history\/the archive, the unconscious, patriarchy, progress, reproduction, (pro)creativity, and survival?<br \/>\n2. Theories about the future<br \/>\nHow have ideologies about the past and future been explored in recent literary and critical theory, particularly in the fields of performance, queer, and critical race studies?<br \/>\n3. Adaptations for the future<br \/>\nA BOOM in Ibsen productions and adaptations is now taking place in the US. According to IbsenStage, more than a third of US stagings of Ibsen have taken place since 2000. How has Ibsen been adapted for contemporary audiences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?<br \/>\nAssignments will include<br \/>\n1. A presentation based on\/contributing to a short paper (6-8 pages) on an adaptation of an Ibsen play.<br \/>\nTogether, we will read Little Eyolf and a recent adaptation, Indian Arm\u00a0(2016), by BC-based playwright Hiro Kanagawa. You will also take on a play and adaptation of your own choosing to write-up and present to the class. The range of possibilities is immense here, from stage productions to graphic novels to films to &#8230;<br \/>\n2. An annotated bibliography (4-10 works) on a relevant research subject of your choosing<br \/>\nSources might be taken from Ibsen studies, from drama and performance criticism, from contemporary queer-feminist theory, from &#8230;<br \/>\nGuidance concerning adaptations and research foci will, of course, be provided!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1359","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-14 15:20:15","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\/1359","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=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}