123222 SE Literature Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English (2013S)
Farce
Continuous assessment of course work
Labels
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Th 14.02.2013 00:00 to Tu 19.02.2013 23:59
- Registration is open from Mo 25.02.2013 00:00 to Fr 01.03.2013 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 31.03.2013 23:59
Details
max. 18 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Tuesday
12.03.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
19.03.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
09.04.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
16.04.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
23.04.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
30.04.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
07.05.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
14.05.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
28.05.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
04.06.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
11.06.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
18.06.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Tuesday
25.06.
10:00 - 12:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Requirements for credit: regular attendance, active participation in class, PowerPoint presentation, research paper (20-25 pp.), written final written test.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
It is the aim of this course to introduce students to varieties of farce as a comic subgenre and to study some of the basic premises and conditions of how humour works in the theatre.
Examination topics
Class discussion of plays and selected scenes, student presentations on selected topics.
Reading list
A customised anthology will be available from StudienServiceStelle Anglistik ASAP. Further material for obligatory and ancillary reading will be provided on an e-learning platform. Therefore, students are asked to familiarise themselves in advance with the MOODLE platform. For introduction and self-guided tour, please see <https://elearning.univie.ac.at/>.
Association in the course directory
Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: Diplom 322, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723, 821, UF4.2.4-322, BA10.2, MA4, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0374
Code/Modul: Diplom 322, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723, 821, UF4.2.4-322, BA10.2, MA4, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0374
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33
The farces proposed for detailed analysis cover a wide variety of categories, e.g. classic middlebrow farce (Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott, "No Sex, Please -- We're British", 1971); metaphysical farce and the Theatre of the Absurd (Samuel Beckett, "Endgame", 1957); meta-theatrical farce (Michael Frayn, "Noises Off", 1982); biographical farce (Freud and Dalí in Terry Johnson, "Hysteria", 1993).NB: Students wishing to register early and ready to take on one of the topics for oral presentations in March/April are kindly asked to contact Prof. Huber via e-mail wern.huber@univie.ac.at ASAP.Preliminary Course Outline (Early Registration):
March 12: Introduction + (1) Farce: Definitions
March 19: (2) Michael Frayn and Farce + (3) Introducing "Noises Off"
April 9: GUEST LECTURE: Dr. Michael Raab: "Translating Frayn"
April 16: (4) Farce in the History of English Literature and Theatre