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ENGL 344 - Power Eroticized: Five Dramatists


This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
CMPL, GSFS, THEA
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

New course added 10.28.2008

This course brings together a group of 20th-century dramatists – August Strindberg, Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet, Sarah Kane and Suzan-Lori Parks – who share a concern and a fascination for the effects of social power on the individual. Each play examined is paired with a theoretical reading that attempts to explain the human tendency to eroticize power and such acts’ possible social ramifications. Theorists include Frantz Fanon, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler. Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: P. Mustamaki
Prerequisites & Notes
Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.



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