Drama Aesthetics and Criticism text - request for help

[heather davis-fisch]

Hi Moira,
I've done the same as Glen when I really need something that is only in
Dukore - either using a course pack or posted a pdf on blackboard (password
protected course content site) and the bookstore has dealt with copyright
issues under Access/fair dealing guidelines. Haven't had any problems with
copyright and have just kept total excerpts under 10% of Dukore. In general
though, I have basically switched over to assigning the Gerould book, as
Jenn has, when I teach history of theory/criticism and students are reading
a wide range of texts. The Gerould book also includes a few
non-European/non-North American sources, which is nice.
Heather


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Glen Nichols <gnichols at mta.ca> wrote:

>  Yikes, I don’t know, Moira. I use excerpts from Dukore in course packs
> for a few courses (among other materials), send the stuff to our print shop
> with info for them to deal with Access copy (or whatever it’s called now)…
> and the course packs appear on the bookstore shelves. I’m assuming they
> take care of the permissions, but I’m not going to ask…LOL
>
> Glen
>
>
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> *From:* Canadian Theatre Research [mailto:CANDRAMA at listserv.unb.ca] *On
> Behalf Of *Stephen Johnson
> *Sent:* Friday, August 08, 2014 10:48 AM
> *To:* CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
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> *Subject:* Re: Drama Aesthetics and Criticism text - request for help
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> *From Moira Day <moira.day at usask.ca <moira.day at usask.ca>>*
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> *Subject: **Re: Drama Aesthetics and Criticism text - request for help*
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just had a problem come up with less than a month to go before the
> term begins, and any help or advice people could give me would be welcome.
>
> For years I used Bernard Dukore's *From the Greeks to Grotowski* text to
> teach my 400 level course in Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Even when the
> book went out of print, I was for any years able to get permission from the
> press to print the relevant excerpts from the text. This year, - I just
> found out today - for the first time, none of the presses originally
> affiliated with the book, claim to have the copyright for it or its
> extracts anymore, or know who has it. (And our copyright centre checked
> this out with 5 different presses before turning to the author.) The author
> has said he doesn't know who would have it now either, but if he could see
> which excerpts were involved he can probably tell us where we need to write
> to get individual permission to use them. But with less than a month before
> the class start, this would probably take too long to do.
>
> If anyone else has encountered a similar situation and has had experience
> solving it quickly, please let me know. The advantage of the original text
> was that it was very comprehensive, going from the classical through to the
> contemporary period, it gave abstracts of the actual texts rather than just
> summaries, and many of the abstracts were short but very helpful. The older
> selections between the Greeks and the 19th century were particularly useful
> in teaching a survey course. I don't know if there would be a similar text
> still in print that would be a good substitute for this one - or how
> difficult it would be to track down the original readings in a different
> medium. Our copyright person suggesting checking electronic sources - but
> at least on a first glance, there don't seem to be e-books of the original
> text available either.
>
> As mentioned, any help or advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks, and have a good summer.
>
> Moira Day
> Dept. of Drama
> University of Saskatchewan
> Canada
>
>
>
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