Contemporary theatre theories I. 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
207STA1 ZK 3 2T Czech winter

Subject guarantor

Jaroslav ETLÍK

Name of lecturer(s)

Jaroslav ETLÍK

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The student should be, upon completion of the series, able to have a bearing in the issues of modern theatre theory in its entire breadth. The should be able to write on this topic a study or essay and know individual topics and tendencies which arise in modern theatre theory, an not only write in detail and evaluate but to arrange it into a wider cultural and societal context.

Mode of study

Lecture.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None.

Course contents

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the most latest trends in Czech and foreign theatre theory. The 4 semestral study "Contemporary Theatre Theory I and II originate in the tradicational structural - semiotic concept of a theatre piece, which in the Czech context, has a long and deeply-rooted tradition. The lecture series is, of course, oriented, particularly, on those breaking moments in theory considerations of theatre which supersede that traditional starting point, and in a particular chonology as they gradually occured in Czech and foreign theatre - theory though in the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st.

Content:

In the first semester the student is acquainted with the basic principles of the structuralist approach to theatre. The aim of the lecture series is a summary of the contribution of the structural - semiotic school of Czech theatre theory and an evaluation of its positives and limits.

  1. Czech Theatre research structuralism (Mukařovský, Veltruský, Honzl, Brušák, Bogatyrev).
  2. Concept of the whole in art. A theatre piece as a dynamic pack of individual components. (Mukařovský, Honzl).
  3. Elements of theatre expression (Pokorný, Veltruský).
  4. Intention and un-intention in art (Mukařovský).
  5. French Structuralism and semiology (Barthes, Althusser, Kristeva etc.).
  6. French Post-structuralism (Barthes, Todorov, Kristeva and others).
  7. So called semiotics - „second wind“ (Kowzan, de Marinis, Helbo, Ruffini, Prieto).
  8. Czech structural - semiotic school of theatre theory of the second half of the 20th century (Císař, Osolsobě, Konigsmark, Jičínský etc.).

Recommended or required reading

Fundamental Literature for the 4 semester series:

Jan Mukařovský: Studie I., Brno, Host, 2002

Jan Mukařovský: Studie II., Brno, Host, 2002

Jiří Veltruský: Příspěvky k teorii divadla, Praha: Divadelní ústav, 1994

Jiří Veltruský: Drama jako básnické dílo, Brno, Host,1999

Jindřich Honzl: K novému významu umění, Praha, Orbis, 1956

Jindřich Honzl: Základy a praxe moderního divadla Praha, Orbis, 1963

Petr Bogatyrev: Souvislosti tvorby, Praha, Odeon,1971

Petr Bogatyrev: Lidové divadlo české a slovenské, Brno, Stezky, 1940

Jan Císař: Proměny divadelního jazyka, Praha, Melantrich, 1986

Zdeněk Hořínek: Herectví jako hra, in: Divadlo 21, 1970, č. 2.

Zdeněk Hořínek: Divadlo, drama, divák, Bratislava, Tatran,1985

Ivo Osolsobě: Principia parodica, Praha, NAMU, 2007

Ivo Osolsobě: Mnoho povyku pro sémiotiku Brno, „G“, 1992

Jaroslav Etlík: Divadlo jako zakoušení, in: Divadelní revue 1999, č.1.

Jaroslav Etlík: Termíny k dohodnutím in: Divadlo a interakce I., Praha, 2007

Jaroslav Etlík: Ještě jednou k termínům, in: Divadlo a interakce III., Praha, 2009

Erika Fischerová-Lichte: Estetika perfomativity, Praha Na konári, 2011

Erika Fischerová-Lichte: Čím je představení v kultuře performací? Pokus o definici, in: Souřadnice a kontexty, Praha, DÜ, 2004

Hans Thies Lehmann: Postdramatické divadlo, Slovenský divadelný ústav Bratislava, 2009

Jan Roubal: Představení jako Kaosmos. K jeho chápání v performativní estetice Eriky Fischer - Lichte, Praha, DAMU, 2008

M. Carson: Dejiny divedelných teorií, Slovenský divadelný ústav, 2006

A.Nünning (ed): Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury, Brno, Host, 2008

A. Ubersfeldová: L´espace théatral, Paris 1979

K. Elam: The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama, London, 1980

M. Quinn, Prager school Thetre teory, New York, 1995

P. Pavis: Divadelní slovník, Praha, Divadelní ústav, 2003

Richard Schechner: Performancia: teórie, praktiky, rituály, Bratislava, Slovenský divadelný ústav

Assessment methods and criteria

80% attendance, active cooperation in class, written review, oral exam.

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

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
Wed
room K224
Pracovna pedagogů
(Karlova 26, Praha 1)
ETLÍK J.
14:30–16:00
(parallel2)
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Wed 14:30–16:00 Jaroslav ETLÍK Pracovna pedagogů
Karlova 26, Praha 1 		parallel2

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans