PMA 3756 - [Performative Modernism]

(crosslisted)
(also ENGL 3350, VISST 3735) (LA-AS)

4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014.

N. Salvato.

This course investigates drama and the cultural contexts of it performance from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century in Europe and the United States. We will consider such artistic movements as expressionism, symbolism, naturalism, futurism, constructivism, surrealism, and dadaism. The course will conclude with an emphasis on Brecht’s epic theatre, Artaud’s theatre of cruelty, and a few of their more contemporary descendants. (HTC)