MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING PRACTICE GROUP PROJECT

This module offers students an opportunity to role-play client-consultancy decision-making in tackling a live case study. Undertaken in conjunction with...

Major Infrastructure Planning Practice (BPLN0030)

This module offers students an opportunity to role-play client-consultancy decision-making in tackling a live case study. Undertaken in conjunction with parties from practice, it is here that the new knowledge acquired is synthesised, integrated and tested in the context of a live problem-solving team exercise. The aim of the module is to familiarise students with practical aspects of infrastructure planning, appraisal and delivery and to help them develop a wide range of transferable skills to enhance their professional practice.

Module content and indicative topics

In this module you will read the work of Spain’s most ambitious dramatists of the early twentieth century:...

Experiments in Modern Spanish Drama (SPAN0005)

Module content and indicative topics

In this module you will read the work of Spain’s most ambitious dramatists of the early twentieth century: Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Miguel de Unamuno, and Federico García Lorca. These three writers were key figures in the flourishing of Spanish cultural life between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936, the year in which each of them died. You will gain an understanding of the increasingly fractured political landscape of Spain as it heads towards civil conflict and see how that landscape is reflected on the stages of the nation’s theatres. Each of the playwrights you will study attempts in his own way to combat the stodgy, middle-class values that they believed were preventing the Spanish stage from becoming a focus of renewed artistic energy. Working chronologically, you will examine how these three writers experimented with dramatic form, the possibilities of staging, and the capacity of theatre to challenge its audience to experience art in new ways. You will also gain an appreciation of how these dramatists engage with Spain’s rich and varied cultural heritage.

Set Texts


	Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Luces de bohemia (1924)
	

	Miguel de Unamuno, El otro (1926)
	
	
	Federico García Lorca, Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín (1928)
	
	
	Federico García Lorca, Yerma (1934)
	
Teaching delivery

This module will be taught in a combination of lectures and seminars. Small group work among peers will be used at times, as will viewing of relevant performance examples.

By the end of the module you should be able to:


	Identify and discuss features of dramatic technique with confidence.
	
	
	Understand more fully the cultural and political makeup of Spain prior to the Civil War.
	

	Apply psychoanalytic theory to the study of literature.
	
	
	Identify and discuss features of genre in literature, particularly horror and the grotesque.