| Description |
1 online resource (165 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory |
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Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory ; volume 27
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Dedication; Original Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Misunderstanding Brecht: the critical scene; The German reception; The English reception; Is Brecht dead?; The poststructuralist reception; 2 Brecht in theory and practice: refunctioning the theatre; Non-Aristotelian theatre; The epic model; Towards a dialectical theatre; 3 Theory in praxis: comedy as discourse; Estrangement and comedy; Disturbing the gaze; The comic return of the repressed; Towards a Marxist theory of comedy |
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4 Placing the theory: Brecht and modernityThe Brecht/Lukács dispute; The Brecht/Benjamin partnership; Adorno against Brecht; Towards a revolutionary art; 5 Brecht and postmodernism: theatricalizing the unpresentable; The postmodernist debate; The aesthetics of early Brecht: Baal and In the Jungle of the Cities; 6 The Brechtian postmodern; Expropriating Brecht: the dance theatre of Pina Bausch; Refunctioning Brecht: the shocks of Heiner Müller; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
In this radical and deliberately controversial re-reading of Brecht, first published in 1989, Elizabeth Wright takes a new view of the playwright, giving us a more 'Brechtian' reading than so far achieved and making his work historically relevant here and now. The author discusses in detail Brecht's principle theories and concepts in the light of poststructuralist theory, and reassess the aesthetics and politics with regard to Marxist critics of his own day. Wright includes a re-reading of Brecht's early works, which presents them in relation to a postmodern theatre, and gives critical analyses of the work of Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, and Heiner Muller, who use the techniques of performance theatre, showing how they deconstruct Brecht's distinction between illusion and reality and point to a postmodern understanding of their dialectical relation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge, 1989 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 fast |
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Postmodernism.
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DRAMA -- Continental European.
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Postmodernism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134833306 |
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113483330X |
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9781315544588 |
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131554458X |
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9781134833443 |
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113483344X |
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