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言語態分析I
On Comedy
In this class, we will read representative comedies from ancient Greece to modern Europe, considering the following questions:
1. Are there any common traits shared by ancient and modern comedies? Can we define the essential features of comic drama, as Aristotle did for tragedy in the Poetics?
2. If not, how can we recognise certain dramatic works as comedies across different historical periods? If the designation of a work as comedy depends largely on our intuitive sense of what comedy is, is it impossible to define the genre?
3. Does comedy as a genre belong to particular types of social or political order (civil society, systems of patronage, the nation-state, etc.)? If so, can we identify, or even imagine, the end or death of comedy?
1. Are there any common traits shared by ancient and modern comedies? Can we define the essential features of comic drama, as Aristotle did for tragedy in the Poetics?
2. If not, how can we recognise certain dramatic works as comedies across different historical periods? If the designation of a work as comedy depends largely on our intuitive sense of what comedy is, is it impossible to define the genre?
3. Does comedy as a genre belong to particular types of social or political order (civil society, systems of patronage, the nation-state, etc.)? If so, can we identify, or even imagine, the end or death of comedy?
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
31D200-0931A
GAS-LI6D03L1
言語態分析I
武田 将明
火曜2限
マイリストに追加
マイリストから削除
講義使用言語
英語
単位
2
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
総合文化研究科
授業計画
The following is a list of the works we will discuss. For works not originally written in English, we will use English translations:
Aristophanes, "Lysistrata", "The Frogs" (excerpts).
Aristotle, "Poetics" (excerpts); [?] "Tractatus Coislinianus".
Plautus, "Miles Gloriosus".
Northrop Frye, "Anatomy of Criticism" (excerpts).
William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night’s Dream".
Henri Bergson, "Le Rire" (excerpts).
George Meredith, “An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit.”
Molière, "Le Misanthrope".
William Congreve, "The Way of the World".
Theodor W. Adorno, “Versuch, das Endspiel zu verstehen.”
Sigmund Freud, “Der Humor.”
Samuel Beckett, "Endgame", "Happy Days".
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag", Series 1, Episode 1.
授業の方法
This course will be conducted as a seminar. Students are expected to read the texts assigned for each week. In addition, one or two students will be asked to summarise the texts and offer their own comments in a 20-minute presentation each.
成績評価方法
In-class presentations.
Final essay (1000 words): Students may choose any topic relevant to the course.
履修上の注意
Early preparation will help students to avoid tragicomical experiences during the semester.
