MA Theatre and Consciousness

[Dr Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe]

Apologies for cross-posting

The Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of
Wales Aberystwyth, UK, is considering to develop a taught MA Theatre and
Consciousness, on a one-year full-time or two year part-time basis. There
will be three knowledge-based modules and one practical module, together
with a dissertation. See below for topics covered.  At this stage, we would
like anyone interested in taking this MA course to get in touch, so that we
can get an idea of the market. I would ask colleagues to make this
announcement available to potential students. Please
email me at dam at aber.ac.uk

Topics covered

1. Introduction. Theatre and consciousness--ideas, issues, questions.
2. Theories of consciousness (1). The classical heritage of monism and
dualism.
3. Theories of consciousness (2). The contemporary debate in philosophy
and the sciences. Survey and open issues
4. The creative process
5. Consciousness reflected in drama: Sleep
6. Consciousness reflected in drama: Dreams
7. Consciousness reflected in drama: Waking
8. Consciousness reflected in drama: Altered States of Consciousness
9. Consciousness reflected in drama: Development of consciousness
10. Consciousness and acting: The actor's emotional involvement:
Diderot
11. Consciousness and acting: The actor's emotional involvement:
Stanislavsky
12. Consciousness and acting: The actor's emotional involvement:
Meyerhold, Brecht, Strasberg
13. Consciousness and acting: Presence (Barba)
14. Consciousness and acting: State (Mnouchkine)
15. Consciousness and acting: Translumination (Grotowski)
16. Consciousness and acting: Physical presence and neutrality (Artaud)
17. Consciousness and acting: The actor and the marionette (Kleist,
Craig)
18. Reception and audiences: the senses of sight and hearing
19. Reception and audiences: the sense of smell
20. Reception and audiences: the sixth sense
21. Concepts of theatre studies: language of nature (Artaud) and
universal language of theatre
22. Concepts of theatre studies: theatre and ritual
23. Concepts of theatre studies: postmodernism
24. Concepts of theatre studies: utopian performatives
25. Indian Theatre Aesthetics: The Natyashastra, origin, scope and the
concept of rasa
26. Indian Theatre Aesthetics: issues for further debate
27. The perspective of Vedanta philosophy
28. Gandharvaveda, consciousness and the primordial sound
29. A reassessment of rasa (consciousness studies)
30. Indian theatre aesthetics and Artaud and Barba
31. Brook: The Mahabharata


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Dr Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies
University of Wales Aberystwyth
Parry Williams Building
Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3AJ
Tel. 01970 622835
Fax 01970 622831
email: dam at aber.ac.uk

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
URL http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal

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