- Docente: Keir Douglas Elam
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Course contents
Memory plays: Representations of time and memory in contemporary drama
Plays
Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
Not I (1972)
That Time (1975)
Harold Pinter, The Caretaker (1959)
Old Times (1970)
No Man's Land (1974)
Betrayal(1978)
Tom Stoppard, Travesties81974)
Arcadia (1993)
Caryl Churchill, Top Girls(1982)
Seven Jewish Children — a play about Gaza (2009)
Christopher Hampton, Tales from Hollywood(1984)
These plays and other material will be made available in photocopy
Readings/Bibliography
See programme
Assessment methods
The exam will consist in the discussion of an essay (which may develop the project presented in class) and of the texts and critical materials examined in the course.
Teaching tools
The course will comprise readings, the vision and discussion of video material, and the presentation in class by each student of a project.
Office hours
See the website of Keir Douglas Elam