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Bertolt Brecht

Author : Steve Giles,Rodney Livingstone
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : German literature
ISBN : 9042003197

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Bertolt Brecht by Steve Giles,Rodney Livingstone Pdf

The publication of this volume of essays marks the centenary of the birth of Bertolt Brecht on 10 February 1898. The essays were commissioned from scholars and critics around the world, and cover six main areas: recent biographical controversies; neglected theoretical writings; the semiotics of Brechtian theatre; new readings of classic texts; Brecht's role and reception in the GDR; and contemporary appropriations of Brecht's work. This volume will be essential reading for all those interested in twentieth century theatre, modern German studies, and the contemporary reassessment of post-war culture in the wake of German unification and the collapse of Stalinist communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The essays in this volume also address a variety of general questions, concerning - for example - authorship and textuality; the nature of Brecht's Marxism in relation to his understanding of modernity, science and Enlightenment reason; Marxist aesthetics; radical cultural politics; and feminist performance theory.

Bertolt

Author : Jacques Goldstyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1592702295

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Bertolt by Jacques Goldstyn Pdf

A boy comes up with a way to "save" his beloved tree, named Bertolt, after Bertolt has died.

Bertolt Brecht

Author : John Fuegi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521282454

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Bertolt Brecht by John Fuegi Pdf

Covers Brecht's day-to-day work as a theatre director telling how he worked with actors and how his productions were actually put together in rehearsal.

Bertolt Brecht

Author : Bertolt Brecht,Reinhold Grimm,Caroline Molina y Vedia
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826415040

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Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht,Reinhold Grimm,Caroline Molina y Vedia Pdf

Long in preparation and in considerable demand, here are the essential poems and prose of one of the giants of 20th century world literature. Following an authoritative introduction by Reinhold Grimm, the volume includes German and English poems on facing pages.

Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory

Author : John J. White
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9781571130761

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Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory by John J. White Pdf

In concert with his work as a politically-charged playwright and dramaturge, Bertolt Brecht concerned himself extensively with the theory of drama. He was convinced that the Aristotelian ideal of audience catharsis through identification with a hero and the resultant experience of terror and pity worked against his goal of bettering society. He did not want his audiences to feel, but to think, and his main theoretical thrusts -- Verfremdungseffekte (de-familiarization effects) and epic theater, among others -- were conceived in pursuit of this goal. This is the first detailed study in English of Brecht's writings on the theater to take account of works first made available in the recent German edition of his collected works. It offers in-depth analyses of Brecht's canonical essays on the theater from 1930 to the late 1940s and early GDR years. Close readings of the individual essays are supplemented by surveys of the changing connotations within Brecht's dramaturgical oeuvre of key theoretical terms, including epic and anti-Aristotelian theater, de-familiarization, historicization, and dialectical theater. Brecht's distinct contribution to the theorizing of acting and audience response is examined in detail, and each theoretical essay and concept is placed in the context of the aesthetic debates of the time, subjected to a critical assessment, and considered in light of subsequent scholarly thinking. In many cases, the playwright's theoretical discourse is shown to employ methods of "epic" presentation and techniques of de-familiarization that are corollaries of the dramatic techniques for which his plays are justly famous. John J. White is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King's College London.

Bertolt Brecht

Author : Betty Nance Weber,Hubert Heinen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820334783

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Bertolt Brecht by Betty Nance Weber,Hubert Heinen Pdf

First published in 1980, this collection of fifteen original essays touches on a variety of topics related to the genesis of Brecht's works and their impact on contemporary literature, theater, and film. Discussed are Brecht's confrontation with Marxism and its political manifestations, the influence of his work on film and theater practitioners, the uses his literary descendants have made of his political commitment, and much more.

Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921)

Author : David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780567685674

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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson Pdf

This volume offers an examination of Brecht's largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brecht's own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with 'David on the brain'. The analysis of Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom.

Bertolt Brecht

Author : Meg Mumford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351180788

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Bertolt Brecht by Meg Mumford Pdf

Bertolt Brecht’s methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a significant impact on performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of the key periods in Brecht’s life and work a clear explanation of his key theories, including the renowned ideas of Gestus and Verfremdung an account of his groundbreaking 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle an in-depth analysis of his practical exercises and rehearsal methods. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are an invaluable resource for students and scholars.

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life

Author : Stephen Parker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408155639

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Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker Pdf

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.

The Bänkelsang and the work of Bertolt Brecht

Author : Sammy K. McLean
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111342542

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The Bänkelsang and the work of Bertolt Brecht by Sammy K. McLean Pdf

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Bertolt Brecht

Author : Philip Glahn
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780233017

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Bertolt Brecht by Philip Glahn Pdf

A playwright, poet, and activist, Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was known for his theory of the epic theater and his attempts to break down the division between high art and popular culture. He was also a committed Marxist who lived through two world wars and a global depression. Looking at Brecht’s life and works through his plays, stories, poems, and political essays, Philip Glahn illustrates how they trace a lifelong attempt to relate to the specific social, economic, and political circumstances of the early twentieth century. Glahn reveals how Brecht upended the language and gestures of philosophers, beggars, bureaucrats, thieves, priests, and workers, using them as weapons in his work. Following Brecht through the Weimar Republic, Nazism, exile, and East German Socialism, Glahn argues that the writer’s own life became a production of history that illuminates an ongoing crisis of modern experience shaped by capitalism, nationalism, and visions of social utopia. Sharp, accessible, and full of pleasures, this concise biography will interest anyone who wishes to know about this pivotal modern dramatist.

"Verwisch die Spuren!": Bertolt Brecht’s Work and Legacy

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401206105

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"Verwisch die Spuren!": Bertolt Brecht’s Work and Legacy by Anonim Pdf

This volume presents a cross-section of current Brecht studies, reflecting a variety of approaches and perspectives ranging from detailed exegesis of particular texts to cultural criticism in the broadest sense. It provides analyses of Brecht's work and investigates his pervasive influence in 20th century literature. The studies collected here cover the whole of Brecht’s career, from the early one-acter Kleinbürgerhochzeit of 1919 to the Sinn und Form years immediately preceding his death, as well as his use of tradition and his legacy. By way of redressing a tendency in Brecht reception to regard him mainly as a dramatist, the volume covers novels, poetry, film, photography, journalism and theory as well as plays.

Bertolt Brecht in America

Author : James K. Lyon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400855902

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Bertolt Brecht in America by James K. Lyon Pdf

This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408162002

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Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55 by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

"Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion." (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph) Brecht's "Work Journals" cover the period from 1938 to 1955, the years of exile in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and America, and his return via Switzerland to East Berlin. His criticisms of the work of other writers and intellectuals are perceptive and polemic, and the accounts of his own writing practice provide insight into the creation of his dramatic works of the period, the development of his political thinking and his theories about epic theatre. Also integrated into the journals are Brecht's immediate reactions to and commentary upon the events of the period: his political exile's view of the course of World War II and his account of the House Un-American Activities committee. "A marvellous, motley collage of political ideas, domestic detail, artistic debate, poems, photographs and cuttings from newspapers and magazines, assembled, undoubtedly for posterity by one of the great writers of the century" (New Statesman and Society)

Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472577528

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Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller. This volume collects the complete short stories written by Brecht, including the prize-winning 'The Monster', and the fragmentary memoir ghost-written by Brecht, 'Life Story of the boxer Samson-Körner'. Brecht scholar Marc Silberman provides an introduction and editorial notes. Fans of Brecht will find in the 37 stories assembled here the same directness, lack of affectation, and wry humour that characterise his plays. Every lover of short stories will discover an unexpected trove of pleasure in this "mine for short-story addicts" (Observer).