Format:
Online-Ressource (359 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9789401206105
Series Statement:
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 66
Content:
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 re
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Papers from a conference held at the University of London Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies in February 2006
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"Verwisch die Spuren!" Bertolt Brecht's Work and Legacy; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introductory Note; Klaus-Detlef Müller Der antiaristotelische Roman: Brechts Beitrag zum Roman der klassischen Moderne; Peter Hutchinson Uncomfortable, Unsettling, Alienating: Brecht's Poetry of the Unexpected; Martin Swales "Theatre that shows…"? Reflections on Brecht's Importance as a Dramatist; Ernest Schonfield Brecht and the Modern Picaresque; Marielle Sutherland Brecht's Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit: A Stück Coming Unstuck?; Michael Patterson Brecht's Debt to Theatrical Expressionism
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Frank Krause Von Kaiser zu Brecht: Drama und ProsaSteve Giles Photography and Representation in Kracauer, Brechtand Benjamin; Erdmut Wizisla Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht: Bericht über eineKonstellation; Ulrike Zitzlsperger Bertolt Brecht: Stadtraum und Architektur; Andrew Webber "Unbewohnbar und doch unverlaßbar": Brecht inand through Berlin; Tom Kuhn Poetry and Photography: Mastering Reality in the Kriegsfibel; Ronald Speirs Poetry in Dark Times: Brecht's Svendborger Gedichte; John White and Ann White The Songs and Poems of Brecht's Furcht und Elend Complex
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Hans-Harald Müller Brechts Leben des Galilei: Eine Interpretation zweier DramenStephen Parker Brecht and Sinn und Form: Generating Cultural Capital in the Cold War; David Midgley "Zwei Hände Erde": Brecht on Mortality; Karen Leeder "Des toten Dichters gedenkend": Remembering Brecht in Contemporary German Poetry; Martin Brady Brecht in Brechtian Cinema; Godela Weiss-Sussex "A Ridiculous Thing to Do": Yvonne Kapp and Brecht in Translation; Robert Gillett Iconoclast or Acolyte? GG Plays BB; Authors in this Volume; Index;
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Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042024328
Additional Edition:
Print version Verwisch die Spuren! Bertolt Brecht's Work and Legacy : A Reassessment
Language:
German
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789401206105
Author information:
Gillett, Robert 1960-
Author information:
Weiss-Sussex, Godela 1962-
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