Brecht S Tradition

Author : Max Spalter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421435497

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Brecht's Tradition by Max Spalter Pdf

Originally published in 1967. Literary scholars often acknowledge that Brecht borrowed from a variety of traditions, including Goethe, Schiller, expressionists, naturalists, and realists, all of whom affected his work. However, they tend not to address any single tradition as exclusively Brecht's. From these various literary traditions, Brecht borrowed formal elements only; compared with other writers to whom he is indebted, Brecht exceeds them in cynicism. They do not convey anything like his pitiless debunking attitude, his corrosive anti-romanticism, his hardheaded refusal to idealize or glorify, and his suspicion of all sentimentalities. This book discusses what the author identifies as the "Brechtian sensibility." Chroniclers of drama have not totally ignored the Brechtian tradition, but too often they are content to note merely that Brecht shared with some writers—particularly Büchner and Wedekind—a proclivity for open drama and episodes of racy realism tinged with poetic feeling. Other critics have not closely studied the various plays of this tradition in order to show how they constitute a distinctive and well-defined species of theater to which Brecht unmistakably belongs.

Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489683

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Brecht and Tragedy by Martin Revermann Pdf

Explores Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, including significant archival material not seen before.

Author : Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088902031

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Persistent Traditions by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz Pdf

The adoption of agriculture is one of the major developments in human history. Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the trajectories of Neolithisation in Northwest Europe were diverse. This book presents a study into the archaeology of the communities involved in the process of Neolithisation in the Lower Rhine Area (5500-2500 cal BC). It elucidates the role played by the indigenous communities in relation to their environmental context and in view of the changes that becoming Neolithic brought about. This work brings together a comprehensive array of excavated archaeological sites in the Lower Rhine Area. Their analysis shows that the succession of Late Mesolithic, Swifterbant culture, Hazendonk group and Vlaardingen culture societies represents a continuous long-term tradition of inhabitation of the wetlands and wetland margins of this area, forming a culturally continuous record of communities in the transition to agriculture. After demonstrating the diversity of the Mesolithic, the subsequent developments regarding Neolithisation are studied from an indigenous perspective. Foregrounding the relationship between local communities and the dynamic wetland landscape, the study shows that the archaeological evidence of regional inhabitation points to long-term flexible behaviour and pragmatic decisions being made concerning livelihood, food economy and mobility. This disposition also influenced how the novel elements of Neolithisation were incorporated. Animal husbandry, crop cultivation and sedentism were an addition to the existing broad spectrum economy but were incorporated within a set of integrative strategies. For the interpretation of Neolithisation this study offers a complementary approach to existing research. Instead of arguing for a short transition based on the economic importance of domesticates and cultigens at sites, this study emphasises the persistent traditions of the communities involved. New elements, instead of bringing about radical changes, are shown to be attuned to existing hunter-gatherer practices. By documenting indications of the mentalité of the inhabitants of the wetlands, it is demonstrated that their mindset remained essentially ‘Mesolithic’ for millennia. This book is accompanied by a separate 422 page volume containing the appendices. These constitute a comprehensive inventory of 159, mostly excavated archaeological sites in the Lower Rhine Area.

Author : Stephen Parker,Peter Davies,Matthew Philpotts
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110906127

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The Modern Restoration by Stephen Parker,Peter Davies,Matthew Philpotts Pdf

This book seeks to move twentieth-century German literary history away from its stubbornly persistent reliance on the political turning-points of 1933 and 1945. In the first part of the book, the authors analyze a synchronic corpus of literary journals, identifying a restorative aesthetic mood in the years 1930-1960 which persists across political date boundaries. In the second part, the careers of five writers are considered diachronically against this prevailing restorative climate: Gottfried Benn, Johannes R. Becher, Bertolt Brecht, Günter Eich, and Peter Huchel. Combining these two approaches, the authors show that a fresh perspective that challenges established literary-historical periodisations can shed light on the common cultural and aesthetic ground shared by writers, editors and critics across the ideological divides of the era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067472012

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Brecht Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : J.M. Broekman,J. Knopf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401016285

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Konkrete Reflexion by J.M. Broekman,J. Knopf Pdf

So the philosopher's way to be is the source (Quelle) of his values and of his basic model; it is an important way of understanding thrall. It appears, now, that the thought of this paper could be simplified. The primary notion is the philosopher's "way to be." Style, locus of interest, nisus and way of thought can then be seen as growing out of this, as particular aspects or expressions of it. This entire paper then would be an attempt to come to grips with the primary notion. How is a "way to be" related to what is normally called a philo sopher's views or theories (the formulable core)? Is it not irrelevant as non-implicatory fact, like biographical details or social background? I do not think so. A philosopher's way to be is not external fact to the formulable core of his thought. It is not "internal" either in the logical sense. It is what allows us to comprehend his explicit views.

Author : Michael David Richardson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 3039107240

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Revolutionary Theater and the Classical Heritage by Michael David Richardson Pdf

This study analyzes the work of three prominent proletarian-revolutionary dramatists at the end of the Weimar Republic. The work of Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Wolf, and Gustav von Wangenheim is looked at against the backdrop of debates among Marxist intellectuals and artists. Through a discussion of theatrical theory and close readings of individual plays, this work examines the authors' unique aesthetics and their enactment of a critical appropriation of the German literary heritage. It also investigates their attempts to transform the audience's relationship to the theatrical production from a passive-receptive to an active-critical one. This volume offers insights into larger questions of political and cultural continuity that characterized the Weimar and the postwar periods.

Author : Hans Reiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349021857

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The Writer’s Task from Nietzsche to Brecht by Hans Reiss Pdf

Author : John J. White,Ann White
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781571133731

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Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend Des Dritten Reiches by John J. White,Ann White Pdf

First thorough treatment in English of one of Brecht's most important antifascist works.

Author : Darko Suvin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434443694

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In Leviathan's Belly by Darko Suvin Pdf

In eleven incisive, biting essays, Marxist philosopher Darko Suvin suggests that "capitalism (and all of us in Leviathan's belly) stands today in the presence of Yeats's rough beast advancing toward Bethlehem, that finance capitalism is not simply a stage but a recurrent 'Autumn' signal of transition from one world regime of accumulation and domination to another; it signals the destruction of the old regime and creation of a 'new' one." And to bolster his argument, Suvin points to the economic and social chaos creeping and growing through western society, bank failures, riots, unrest, loss of private capital, loss of middle-class jobs, increase in drug and alcohol abuse, proliferation of guns and other weapons in society, failure of our school systems, inability of police to provide security, and political revolution in less-developed states. The author stresses the need to provide "universal guaranteed income sufficient to modestly live on for all adults working 35 hours a week, and a stress on [providing decent] education and health." And to fund these simple measures: "Just pay trillions to people instead of banks and the military." Suvin's intelligent analysis and commentary will open many eyes that have been prejudiced against socialist thought by the rise of right-wing politicians, and demonstrate quite clearly to the modern reader that there IS another perspective worth considering.

Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe,Heinz-Uwe Haus
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527514683

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Heinz-Uwe Haus on Culture and Politics by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe,Heinz-Uwe Haus Pdf

The late 1980s saw the dissolution of the Iron Curtain and the development of democracy in Eastern European countries that had been oppressed by a range of varieties of communist totalitarian regimes. In Germany, this development led to the abolition of the so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the re-unification of Germany. Heinz-Uwe Haus was one of the leading voices of the movement credited with being instrumental in the collapse of communism in the GDR. In addition, as a leading theatre director in GDR times and beyond, his thinking and action have always combined politics and theatre and the arts overall. In this book, Haus provides a unique narrative of the context before German unification, unification itself, and the aftermath of unification across the decades since. He explores the difficulties on the way, from the perspective of the insider. Haus then widens the context from post-unification Germany to encompass issues of broader current relevance, such as Europe, America and Islam. Theatre provides the conceptual framework for this wide-ranging debate.

Author : David Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474299459

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Bertolt Brecht by David Barnett Pdf

With over 70 scholarly articles, reviews, and critical interventions from the last 50 years, Bertolt Brecht: Critical and Primary Sources set covers the key periods of Brecht's life, from his time in Augsburg (1898-1918) through the Weimer Republic (1918-1933), exile (1933-1948) and the German Democratic Republic (1949-1956). It also explores his theories, fundamentally his belief in the theatre's ability to represent and change the world, core practices and relationships. Alongside primary sources that include writings by Brecht published in English for the first time, such as his short but important reflection in 'originality' in theatre production, key featured scholars include Fredric Jameson and his essay 'Episch, or, the Third Person', and pieces on Brecht's collaborative working methods by Claus and Wera Kuchenmeister, and the director Egon Monk. Volume 1 covers Brecht's life and work, including essays on his famous Mother Courage and Her Children, production reviews, poetry, novels and short stories, with some thoughts on his journals. Volume 2 covers theory, containing essays and primary writings on Brechtian terminology, and some of the more enigmatic terms like 'Epic theatre', 'Verfremdung', 'Gestus' and 'Fabel', features a survey of important theoretical works, a section on Brecht on non-theatre media, his relationship to other major thinkers, ideas and sources and the reception of his ideas. Volume 3 covers practice, including Brecht's practice as documenter and director, beginning with his disastrous start in the Weimar Republic through to his later role as director as the Berliner Ensemble, his relationships with other practitioners and his own collaborators, reviews of important productions and global receptions.

Author : Peter Brooker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351996044

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Routledge Revivals: Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1988) by Peter Brooker Pdf

First published in 1988, this books argues with received accounts to reclaim Brecht’s emphasis on his self-described ‘dialectical theatre’, re-examining firstly the concepts of Gestus and Verfremdung and their realisation in Brecht’s poetry in terms of his attempt to consciously apply the methods of dialectical materialism to art and cultural practice. The author also takes issue with the customary view of Brecht’s career and politics which sees him as compromising either with Communist party dogma or bourgeois aesthetics, to find developing parallels between Brecht’s political and artistic though and the critical dialectics of Marx, Lenin and Mao. This development is examined in later chapters in relation to the early and late plays, The Measures Taken and Days of the Commune as well as in relation to Brecht’s changed circumstances in the years of war-time exile and in post-war East Germany.

Author : Claude Hill
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015004822147

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Bertolt Brecht by Claude Hill Pdf

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Bertolt Brecht.

Author : Min Tian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000737837

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The Spectre of Tradition and the Aesthetic-Political Movement of Theatre and Performance by Min Tian Pdf

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds. In contrast to the predominantly Western approaches, which look at traditions (Western and non-Western) from a predominantly (Western) modernist perspective, this book interrogates, from an intercultural perspective, the transnational and transcultural consecration, translation, (re)invention, and displacement of traditions (theatrical and cultural) in the aesthetic-political movement of twentieth-century theatre and performance, as exemplified in the case studies of this book. It looks at the question of traditions and modernities at the centre of this aesthetic-political space, as modernities interculturally evoke and are haunted by traditions, and as traditions are interculturally refracted, reconstituted, refunctioned, and reinvented. It also looks at the applicability of its intercultural perspective on tradition to the historical avant-garde in general, postmodern, postcolonial, and postdramatic theatre and performance and to the twentieth-century "classical" intercultural theatre and the twenty-first-century "new interculturalisms" in theatre and performance. To conclude, it looks at the future of tradition in the ecology of our globalized theatrum mundi and considers two important interrelated concepts, future tradition and intercultural tradition. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies.