| Description |
1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies ; v.2 |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- Introduction: Brecht now -- 1 Brecht and language -- Marxism and rhetoric -- Brecht and Postmodernism -- Verfremdungseffekt and Unheimlich -- Psychoanalysts and class-consciousness -- Brecht and class -- Gestus, language, negation -- Marxism and science -- Lacanian gestus -- 2 Dialectical images -- Dialectic at a standstill -- Jetztzeit -- Dialectical images -- Modelbooks -- Kafka's gestus -- Trauerspiel -- Brechtian Trauerspiel -- Mourning as a socially symbolic act -- Hamlet |
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'Marx -- das Unheimliche' -- 3 Brecht and myth -- The structuralist activity -- The ruins of costume -- Brechtian photography -- Brecht and myth -- Numen and punctum -- The maternal -- Fetishism -- Peaceable speech -- The art of living -- Seismology -- 4 Brecht and narrative -- An ethics of Marxism -- The political unconscious -- Contradiction -- Allegory's violence: Life of Galileo -- Jameson, Frye, anagogy -- Menippean satire -- Dialogism and the dialectic -- Der Dreigroschenroman -- 5 Brecht and tragedy -- Dialectics in the theatre -- Negative dialectics -- Dialectical stereoscopy |
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Adorno and Brecht -- Endgame -- Modern tragedy -- Brechtian tragedy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000143225 |
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1000143228 |
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