Chinese Adaptations Of Brecht

Author : Wei Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030377786

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Chinese Adaptations of Brecht by Wei Zhang Pdf

This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht’s plays have been adapted/appropriated by Chinese theatre artists to speak to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments in China and how such endeavors reflect and result from dynamic interactions between Chinese philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, especially as embodied in traditional xiqu and the Brechtian concepts of estrangement (Verfremdungseffekt) and political theatre. In examining these Brecht adaptations, Zhang offers an interdisciplinary study that contributes to the fields of comparative drama/theatre studies, intercultural studies, and performance studies.

Author : Anthony Tatlow,Tak-wai Wong
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9622090680

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Brecht and East Asian Theatre by Anthony Tatlow,Tak-wai Wong Pdf

This book contains unique information about Bertolt Brecht and East Asian theatre. It focuses in particular on China and offers first and detailed accounts of important Brecht productions from those directly involved. Hence it grants remarkable insight into the problems of modern Chinese theatre and its relationship to Western theatre and into possible future developments. The book also throws light on Brecht's work and suggests ways of 're-producing' Brecht in the West. It consists of papers presented at a Hong Kong conference by distinguished Western critics (John Willett, Klaus Volker) and prominent practitioners of the theatre in China - directors (Huang Zuolin, Chen Yong), stage designers, translators and scholars. There are also accounts of Brecht productions in Japan and India, which form a stimulating contrast with the Chinese experience. With a wealth of practical examples, the book enables us to appreciate how theatre develops within different social structures. Presenting examples of cultural affinity and cultural disjunction, it also makes a useful contribution to intercultural study.

Author : Shouhua Qi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315446141

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Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage by Shouhua Qi Pdf

Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage presents a comprehensive study of transnational, transcultural, and translingual adaptations of Western classics from the turn of the twentieth century to present-day China in the age of globalization. Supported by a wide range of in-depth research, this book Examines the complex dynamics between texts, both dramatic and socio-historical; contexts, both domestic and international; and intertexts, Western classics and their Chinese reinterpretations in huaju and/or traditional Chinese xiqu; Contemplates Chinese adaptations of a range of Western dramatic works, including Greek, English, Russian, and French; Presents case studies of key Chinese adaptation endeavors, including the 1907 adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the Spring Willow Society and the 1990 adaptation of Hamlet by Lin Zhaohua; Lays out a history of uneasy convergence of East and West, complicated by tensions between divergent sociopolitical forces and cultural proclivities. Drawing on disciplines and critical perspectives, including theatre and adaptation studies, comparative literature, translation studies, reception theory, post-colonialism, and intertextuality, this book is key reading for students and researchers in any of these fields.

Author : John Fuegi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.

Author : Sarah E. James
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262046565

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Paper Revolutions by Sarah E. James Pdf

The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art’s postwar histories. In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR were isolated and conservative, James introduces a new narrative of neo-avantgarde practice in the Eastern Bloc that subverts many of the assumptions underpinning Western art’s postwar histories. She grounds her argument in the practice of four artists who, uniquely positioned outside academies, museums, and the art market, as these functioned in the West, created art in the blind spots of state censorship. They championed ephemeral practices often marginalized by art history: postcards and letters, maquettes and models, portfolios and artists’ books. Through their “lived modernism,” they produced bodies of work animated by the radical legacies of the interwar avant-garde. James examines the work and daily practices of the constructivist graphic artist, painter, and sculptor Hermann Glöckner; the experimental graphic artist and concrete and sound poet Carlfriedrich Claus; the mail artist, concrete poet, and conceptual artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt; and the mail artist, “visual poet,” and installation artist Karla Sachse. She shows that all of these artists rejected the idea of art as a commodity or a rarefied object, and instead believed in the potential of art to create collectivized experiences and change the world. James argues that these artists, entirely neglected by Western art history, produced some of the most significant experimental art to emerge from Germany during the Cold War.

Author : Shouhua Qi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031169342

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Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China by Shouhua Qi Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural Revolution. It fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship in the reception of one of the greatest American playwrights and joins book-length studies of Chinese reception of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill, Brecht, and other important Western playwrights whose works have been eagerly embraced and appropriated and have had catalytic impact on modern Chinese cultural life.

Author : Theodore F. Rippey,Kristopher Imbrigotta,Per Urlaub
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780985195649

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Brecht-Jahrbuch by Theodore F. Rippey,Kristopher Imbrigotta,Per Urlaub Pdf

Alongside the usual wide-ranging lineup of research articles, volume 41 features an interview with Berliner Ensemble actor Annemone Haase and an extensive special section on teaching Brecht.

Author : Min Tian
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789622099074

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The Poetics of Difference and Displacement by Min Tian Pdf

Intercultural theater is a prominent phenomena of twentieth-century international theater. This books views intercultural theatre as a process of displacement and re-placement of various cultural and theatrical forces, a process which the author describes as 'the poetics of displacement'.

Author : Arrigo V. Subiotto
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Berliner Ensemble
ISBN : 0900547375

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Bertolt Brecht's Adaptations for the Berliner Ensemble by Arrigo V. Subiotto Pdf

Author : Constantine Tung,Colin Mackerras
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438422473

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Drama in the People's Republic of China by Constantine Tung,Colin Mackerras Pdf

This is the first book ever published in the West on drama in the People's Republic of China. The plays, playwrights, theories, and performances range from the play that inflamed the Cultural Revolution to a post-Mao satiric drama that upset party leaders; from Jiang Qing's drama theory for her model plays to the discovery of Bertolt Brecht; from the problems and dilemmas that confront theater reform in the post-Mao era to the performance of Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Viennese operettas; and from a historical play glorifying Mao's supremacy to a playwright calling for individualism and women's rights. This book not only depicts aspects of drama in the People's Republic of China, it also provides analyses of the political and social conditions that shaped and are represented in this drama.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408161012

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The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature. Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother. Written in exile in the United States during the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a politically-charged, much-revived and complex example of Brecht's epic theatre. This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases. It features the acclaimed translation by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden.

Author : Kathryn Hellerstein,Lihong Song
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110684117

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China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters by Kathryn Hellerstein,Lihong Song Pdf

In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground in the field, covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters, the intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a truly global and inclusive world literature, the biographies of prominent figures in Chinese-Jewish connections, the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed, with a special emphasis on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.

Author : Eric R. J. Hayot
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472024933

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Chinese Dreams by Eric R. J. Hayot Pdf

China’s profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary journal Tel quel. Chinese Dreams explores the complex, intricate relationship between various “Chinas”—as texts—and the nation/culture known simply as “China”—their context—within the work of these writers. Eric Hayot calls into question the very means of representing otherness in the history of the West and ultimately asks if it might be possible to attend to the political meaning of imagining the other, while still enjoying the pleasures and possibilities of such dreaming. The latest edition of this critically acclaimed book includes a new preface by the author. “Lucid and accessible . . . an important contribution to the field of East-West comparative studies, Asian studies, and modernism.” —Comparative Literature Studies “Instead of trying to decipher the indecipherable ‘China’ in Western literary texts and critical discourses, Hayot chose to show us why and how ‘China’ has remained, and will probably always be, an enchanting, ever-elusive dream. His approach is nuanced and refreshing, his analysis rigorous and illuminating.” —Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis

Author : Peter Thomson,Glendyr Sacks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827737

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The Cambridge Companion to Brecht by Peter Thomson,Glendyr Sacks Pdf

This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more voices and themes. The opening essays place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context and are followed by chapters on single texts, from The Threepenny Opera to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, on some early plays and on the Lehrstücke. Other essays analyse Brecht's directing, his poetry, his interest in music and his work with actors. This revised edition also contains additional essays on his early experience of cabaret, his significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective bibliography of English criticism complete this provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.

Author : Renata Berg-Pan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Brecht, Bertold, 1898-1956--Knowledge--China
ISBN : UOM:39015002285826

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Bertolt Brecht and China by Renata Berg-Pan Pdf