Literature and the Stage
Objectives
At the end of the semestre, participants should be familiarized and ready to discuss:
a) Distinction between literature and scene;
b) theater ideas related to painting in the 18th century.
c) Ideas of theatre and drama in modern theatre;
d) Contemporary performing arts and literature.
General characterization
Code
722011131
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Miguel Magalhães de Castro Caldas
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None.
Bibliography
Available soon
Teaching method
Written essay about a topic or discussion of interest for the student and an oral presentation in class of one (or two, depend of the number of students) of the topics mentioned in the syllabus.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Methodologies - Written essay(70%), oral presentation in class(30%)
Subject matter
1. Text as the great illusion of the "now"
a) Et in Arcadia Ego – To interpret a scene from a literary inscription (Poussin, Panovsky)
b) The tradition of absortion (Diderot e Rousseau)
c) To what extent is seeing the same thing as doing?
d) Theatre without an audience (Beckett)
2. Text as narrator
a) Drama, epos and novel (Peter Szondi, Mickail Bakhtin)
b) Strangeness: arte as process (Schklovsky)
c) The theater wanting to tell what it is doing is the text becoming more text or less text?
(Brecht)
e) The V-Effeckt and the Coyote. (Brecht e Müller and Beuys)
f) Description of an interior (Maeterlink)
g) Description of an image (Müller)
h) Composition of a landscape (Gertrude Stein e Lessing)
3. Image as text
a) Hamlet and his father
b) Wooster Group
4. Text and audience
a) Text as transformation of matter without altering accidents
b) The radical mismatch
c) Usurpation of the spectator
d) Offending the audience