Preference given to humanities majors. A comprehensive study of oral interpretation theory and techniques - applied to performance of dramatic, poetry, and prose literature. Topics include authors' intentions, kinesic and kinesthetic gestures, character development, vocal variety, and readers' theatre performance. Will also consider issues in comparative narratology and their application to the Chinese case. Readings in connection with these issues will include both Western and Chinese theoretical essays.
All readings are in English translation.
No previous knowledge of Chinese literature or the Chinese language is required. With a focus on the playwright Bertolt Brecht and the novelist Thomas Mann, this course will discuss a representative selection of works by writers such as Vladimir. Noabokov, Jorge Semprun, Milan Kundera, Joseph Brodsky and others. Non-major read the texts in English. I A survey of major works in Polish literature from the Renaissance to the present with emphasis on major stylistic trends, principal authors and their works.