Lehrende/r: Dr. Patrick Gill; Dr. habil. Michal Lachman
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 522
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This seminar is taught by our guest lecturer Dr. habil. Michal Lachman (Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz).
Anwesenheitspflicht: Beachten Sie die Hinweise Ihrer Prüfungsordnung.
Inhalt: The course focuses on British plays which specifically thematise the issues of social crisis and cultural unrest. British dramatists have traditionally dedicated themselves to reflecting on the condition of the society, by confronting topical issues resonating across the public. The course, therefore, attempts to cover approximately twenty years of recent dramatic history and showcase a number of British plays which visualize social tensions and crises in resonant ways. The plays offered for analysis discuss the issues of history, identity, otherness, verbatim and documentary writing, as well as concepts of refugee ethics and migration in the attempt to diagnose the condition of modern societies facing inner divisions and visualizing outer borders. The course will be conducted as a combination of lecture and discussion. The lecture is going to cover a wide range of names, including David Hare, Enda Walsh, Stef Smith, David Greig, debbie tucker green, or Mike Bartlett. For the discussion part, students are asked to read the following plays in full:
