MEMORY & FORGETTING IN 20th C THEATRE

Transcription

1 Syllabus MEMORY & FORGETTING IN 20th C THEATRE Last update HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: theatre studies Academic year: 0 Semester: 2nd Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Jeanette Malkin Coordinator jmalkin@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Wed. 14:15-15:00 Teaching Staff: Dr. Jeanette Malkin page 1 / 8

2 Course/Module description: All theatre is a memory site. We remember various productions of the same play; various roles played by the same actress. Sometimes theatre reflects the processes of remembrance and forgetting through its plot, but more interestingly, it can reflect these processes through its structures and its use of theatrical space and time including traumatic memory. In this seminar we will try to uncover the theatrical language of remembrance and forgetting through a few paradigmatic playwrights and directors such as Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, Thomas Bernhard, Robert Wilson, and Pina Bausch. We will also read various essays about memory and forgetting by Freud, Caruth, Nathalie Zemon Davis and others. Course/Module aims: To understand the complexity of memory and memory discourses as they are reflected in modern and postmodern theatre. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: See above Attendance requirements(%): 80% Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Class discussions and individual class reports Course/Module Content: 1. Memory and Theatre 2. Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman 3. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie 4. Harold Pinter: Betrayal 5. Samuel Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape; Ohio Impromptu 6. Leeny Sack: The Survivor and the Translator page 2 / 8

3 7. Thomas Bernhard: Heldenplatz 8. Heiner Mller. A Letter to Robert Wilson 9. James E. Young. The Counter-Monument 10. Sam Shepard: Buried Child 11. Pina Bausch: Cafe Muller 12. Talk to Her by Pedro Almodovar Required Reading: Attilio Favorini. Memory in Play: From Aeschylus to Sam Shepard: 13-22, 59-61, Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie Sigmund Freud: A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad 1925 Harold Pinter: Betrayal Jeanette R. Malkin. Memory Theatre and Postmodern Drama, 22-36, Samuel Beckett: Krapps Last Tape Samuel Beckett: Ohio Impromptu Cathy Caruth. Introduction to Part I of Trauma: Explorations in Memory: 3-12 Sigmund Freud. Mourning and Melancholia Leeny Sack: The Survivor and the Translator Thomas Bernhard: Heldenplatz Heiner Mller. A Letter to Robert Wilson Jeanette R. Malkin. Coopted and Tamed: The (Scandalous) Mller / Wilson Symbiosis, in Assaph: Studies in the Theatre 15 (1999): 1-16 James E. Young. The Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany page 3 / 8

4 Today, in Critical Inquiry 18/2 (Winter 1992): Sam Shepard: Buried Child Elizabeth Wright. Expropriating Brecht: The dance theatre of Pina Bausch, in her Postmodern Brecht: A Re-presentation: Anette Guse. Talk to Her! Look at her! Pina Bausch in Pedro Almodףvar's Hable con ella, in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 43/4 (2007): Additional Reading Material: Abbott, H. Porter. Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph. Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, Antze, Paul, and Michael Lambek (eds). Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. New York: Routledge, אוגוסטינוס. וידויים. מלטינית: אביעד קליינברג, הוצאת ידיעות אחרונות, )בעיקר ספרים 10 ו- 11 ). Beckett, Samuel. Proust. New York: Grove Press, Benjamin, Walter. Theses on the Philosophy of History, in Illuminations, Hannah Arendt (ed), trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory. New York: Macmillan, ברנהרד,תומס. הלדנפלאץ. מגרמנית: אברהם כרמל. ירושלים: שוקן, Birringer, Johannes. Pina Bausch: Dancing Across Borders, TDR 30/2 (Summer 1986): Bloom, Harold. Foreword, to Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. New York: Schocken Books, 1982; Foreword copyright, Brater, Enoch. Beyond Minimalism: Becketts Late Style in the Theater. New York: Oxford U. Press, page 4 / 8

5 Caruth, Cathy. Introduction to Part I of Trauma: Explorations in Memory, Cathy Caruth (ed). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1995: Davis, Natalie Zemon, and Randolph Starn. Introduction, to Memory and Counter- Memory. Special issue of Representations 26 (1989): 1-6. Favorini, Attilio. Memory in Play: From Aeschylus to Sam Shepard. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, trans. and ed. James Strachey et al. Mourning and Melancholia, 14: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 18: London; Hogarth, Friedlander, Saul. Trauma, Memory, and Transference, in Holocaust Remembrance: The Shades of Memory, Geoffrey H. Hartman (ed). Oxford: Blackwell, 1994: Gedi, Noa, and Yigal Elam. Collective Memory What is it? in History and Memory 8/1 (1996): Geis, Deborah R. And this strength is in me still: Embodying Memory in Works by Jewish Women Performance Artists. The Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): Guse, Anette. Talk to Her! Look at Her! Pina Bausch in Pedro Almodףvar's Hable con ella, in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 43/4 (2007): Halbwachs, Maurice. The Collective Memory. Trans. Francis J. Ditter, Jr. and Vida Yizdi Ditter. Reprint: New York, Hartman, Geoffrey H. (ed). Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Holmberg, Arthur. The Theatre of Robert Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Huyssen, Andreas. Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia. New page 5 / 8

6 York and London: Routledge, Innes, Christopher. Avant Garde Theatre: London: Routledge, Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. Yale U. Press, Malkin, Jeanette R. Memory-Theater and Postmodern Drama. Michigan U. Press, Malkin, Jeanette R. Coopted and Tamed: The (Scandalous) Mller/Wilson Symbiosis, in Assaph: Studies in the Theatre 15 (1999): McConkey, James. The Anatomy of Memory: An Anthology. Oxford U. Press, Moses, Stephane. The Theological-Political Model of History in the Thought of Walter Benjamin, in History and Memory 1/2 (1989): Nora, Pierre. Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire, trans. Marc Roudebush, in Representations 26 (1989), נורה, פייר. "בין זיכרון להיסטוריה על בעיית המקום", זמנים) 45 קיץ.(1993 Sack, Leeny. The Survivor and the Translator. In: Out From Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists. Lenora Champagne, ed. Theatre Com. Group, 1990: Santner, Eric L. Stranded Objects: Mourning. Memory. and Film in Postwar Germany. Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, Schey, Taylor. Ritual Remembrance: Freud's Primal Theory of Collective Memory, in SubStance 42/1 (2013): סרבוס, נורברט. פינה באוש: תיאטרון המחול. מגרמנית: איה ברויר; צילומים: גדי דגון, לי ינור רמת השרון: אסיה, 2012 (המקור: 2008). Servos, Norbert and Gert Weigelt. Pina Bausch: Wuppertal Dance Theatre, or The Art of page 6 / 8

7 Training a Goldfish: Excursions into Dance. Cologne: Ballet-Bhnen-Verlag, Shapira, Anita. Politics and Collective Memory: The Debate over the New Historians in Israel, in History & Memory 7/1 (1995): Shevtsova, Maria. Robert Wilson. Routledge, Terdiman, Richard. Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis. Cornell U. Press, Whitehead, Anne. Memory (The New Critical Idiom). Routledge, Wright, Elizabeth. Expropriating Brecht: The dance theatre of Pina Bausch, in her Postmodern Brecht: A Re-Presentation. London: Routledge, 1989: Wright, Elizabeth. The Production of Illusions: The Post Freudian Theatre of Pina Bausch and Heiner Mller in Assaph: Studies in the Theatre 7 (1991): Yates, Francis. The Art of Memory. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1966; reprint Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. New York: Schocken Books, Young, James E. The Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany Today, in Critical Inquiry 18/2 (Winter 1992): Young, James E. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. Yale U. Press, Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 30 % Participation in Tutorials 20 % Project work 0 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 50 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % page 7 / 8

8 Powered by TCPDF ( Additional information: page 8 / 8