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Text Analysis 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction
204ANT1 Z 1 2/T Czech
Tutor:
Kateřina ŠAVLÍKOVÁ
Synopsis:

In the first semester, students read the text (selected dramatic text) together with the teacher as closely as possible and try to obtain as much information as possible on the characteristics of the figures, the time and space, and the play?s basic motifs. This phase requires material precision and also an openness to the various ways of intepreting the text. Students should consider the work in the context of the time that it was created and in the context of the author?s life and creative activity. At the end of the semester they should provide a short written summary of their observations.

Prerequisites:

1. Ability to apply theatrical terminology in practice.

2. Ability to analyse the relevant text, including sub-text.

3. Ability to understand the context (obvious need for self-education)

4. Ability to develop your own interpretation

5. Imagination.

Study Objectives:

To develop a student?s ability to conduct an independent, thorough analsis of a dramatic text and in a creative way to detect and find in it the possibilities for its dramatisation on stage.

Outline and Syllabus:

Curriculum

1. Immediate initial impression from reading.

2. Relevant literature. (Context of the period in which the work was created, the work in context of the author?s life and creative activity.)

3. Time and space.

4. Figures.

5. Central and secondary motifs.

6. Themes.

7. Language (+ translation, where relevant).

8. Study of relevant important dramatised adaptations of the text.

9. Interpretation and concept of dramatisation.

Syllabus

In the first semester, students read the text (selected dramatic text) together with the teacher as closely as possible and try to obtain as much information as possible on the characteristics of the figures, the time and space, and the play?s basic motifs. This phase requires material precision and also an openness to the various ways of intepreting the text. Students should consider the work in the context of the time that it was created and in the context of the author?s life and creative activity. At the end of the semester they shall provide a short written summary of their observations.

In the second semester a text is chosen according to the student?s own interest or specialisation. After analysing it the student shall submit his or her own interpretation and discuss it with the teacher in order to justify it and see whether it actually works or whether it?s superfluous. In the last phase students should suggest ways in which the text could be adapted in line with their interpretation, or give their own idea of its basic dramatisation.

Study materials:

Basic literature:

J.L.Styan: Elements of Drama

P.Szondi: Theory of Modern Drama

J.Vostrý: Artistic Image

J.Císař: Bases of Dramaturgy I.

Jan Czech: Philosophy of Drama

+ relevant literature relating to the analysed text.

Note:
Further information:
This course is an elective for all students of this school
Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
místnost R210
Učebna
(Karlova 26, Praha 1)
ŠAVLÍKOVÁ K.
09:30–11:00
(paralelka 1)
Fri
Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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