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Arthur Schnitzler: Round Dance and Other Plays
Introduction Ritchie Robertson Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Arthur Schnitzler The Plays Explanatory Notes Ritchie Robertson
Molière: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and Other Plays
Introduction Translator’s Note Select Bibliography A Chronology of Molière Ian Maclean The Plays Explanatory Notes
Molière: Don Juan and Other Plays
Introduction A Chronology of Molière Note on the Selection and the Translation The Plays Explanatory Notes
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart
Introduction Lesley Sharpe Note on the translation Chronology of Dates and Events during Schiller’s Life Royal Family Tree: The Historical Relationship between Mary Stuart and Don Carlos Don Carlos Mary Stuart
Discourse
Explanation—Theories of discourse What is discourse? Introduction Sentence study in language teaching and linguistics Discourse and the sentence Grammar within and beyond the sentence Language in and out of context The origins of discourse analysis Formal links Formal and contextual links Verb form Parallelism Referring expressions Repetition and lexical chains Substitution Ellipsis Conjunction Conclusion Why …
Speaking
Understanding speaking Speaking as a skill Knowledge and skill Oral skills and interaction Differences between speech and writing Introduction Processing conditions of speech and writing Reciprocity conditions of speech and writing Production skills Introduction Facilitation Compensation Conclusion Interaction skills Introduction Routines Negotiation skills Negotiation of meaning Management of interaction Conclusion Learner strategies of communication Introduction …
Film Studies: Critical Approaches
Film Studies: Critical Approaches Introduction to film studies Richard Dyer Studying the film text The film text and film form Robert P. Kolker Reading: Written on the Wind, Robin Wood Reading: Citizen Kane, Peter Wollen Film acting Paul McDonald Film costume Pamela Church Gibson Film music Claudia Gorbman The film text: theoretical frameworks Classic film …
World Cinema: Critical Approaches
Redefining cinema: international and avant-garde alternatives Concepts of national cinema Stephen Crofts Modernism and the avant-gardes Murray Smith Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory Ashish Rajadhyaksha Redefining cinema: other genres The documentary John Izod and Richard Kilborn The animated film Michael O’Pray European cinema Issues in European cinema Ginette Vincendeau Case-studies: Movements, Moments, and Filmmakers The …
Critical Theory
Preface Introduction: what is critical theory? The Frankfurt School A matter of method Critical theory and modernism Alienation and reification Enlightened illusions The utopian laboratory The happy consciousness The great refusal From resignation to renewal Unfinished talks: solidarity, resistance and global society
Postmodernism
The rise of postmodernism New ways of seeing the world Politics and identity The culture of postmodernism The ‘postmodern condition’
Poststructuralism
Creatures of difference Difference and culture Difference and desire Difference or truth? Dissent