Brecht And Critical Theory
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Author | : Sean Carney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-07-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1000143228 |
Arguing that Brecht’s aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht’s aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth century: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Theodor W. Adorno and Raymond Williams. Re-reading Brecht through the lens of post-structuralism, Sean Carney asserts that there is a Lacanian Brecht and a Derridean Brecht: the result of which is a new Brecht whose vital importance for the present is located in decentred theories of subjectivity. Brecht and Critical Theory maps the many ways in which Brechtian thinking pervades critical thought today, informing the critical tools and stances that make up the contemporary study of aesthetics.
Author | : Carney, Otis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-12-30 |
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ISBN | : 0415356571 |
Author | : Steve Giles |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Janelle G. Reinelt |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9780472068869 |
Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2019-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004404503 |
This interdisciplinary anthology unites scholars with the notion that Bertolt Brecht is a missing link in bridging diverse discourses in social philosophy and aesthetics—an essential read for all those interested in Brecht as a socio-cultural theorist and theatre practitioners.
Author | : Theodor Adorno |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1788738586 |
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.
Author | : Elizabeth Wright |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Postmodernism. |
ISBN | : 9780415023306 |
Author | : Douglas Robinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195076001 |
Not only examining the writings of a critically neglected American novelist of the early 20th century, this study also uses Ring Lardner both as the basis for a theoretical inquiry into language and literature, and as a study of men and masculinity at the turn of the century.
Author | : Fredric Jameson |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2011-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1844676773 |
The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth century is unforgettably established in this major critical work. Fredric Jameson elegantly dissects the intricate connections between Brecht’s drama and politics, demonstrating the way these combined to shape a unique and powerful influence on a profoundly troubled epoch. Jameson sees Brecht’s method as a multi-layered process of reflection and self-reflection, reference and self-reference, which tears open a gap for individuals to situate themselves historically, to think about themselves in the third person, and to use that self-projection in history as a basis for judgment. Emphasizing the themes of separation, distance, multiplicity, choice and contradiction in Brecht’s entire corpus, Jameson’s study engages in a dialogue with a cryptic work, unpublished in Brecht’s lifetime, entitled Me-ti; Book of Twists and Turns. Jameson sees this text as key to understanding Brecht’s critical reflections on dialectics and his orientally informed fascination with flow and flux, change and the non-eternal. For Jameson, Brecht is not prescriptive but performative. His plays do not provide answers but attempt to show people how to perform the act of thinking, how to begin to search for answers themselves. Brecht represents the ceaselessness of transformation while at the same time alienating it, interrupting it, making it comprehensible by making it strange. And thereby, in breaking it up by analysis, the possibility emerges of its reconstitution under a new law.
Author | : Douglas Robinson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2008-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801896312 |
Drawing together the estrangement theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht with Leo Tolstoy's theory of infection, Douglas Robinson studies the ways in which shared evaluative affect regulates both literary familiarity—convention and tradition—and modern strategies of alienation, depersonalization, and malaise. This book begins with two assumptions, both taken from Tolstoy's late aesthetic treatise What Is Art? (1898): that there is a malaise in culture, and that literature's power to "infect" readers with the moral values of the author is a possible cure for this malaise. Exploring these ideas of estrangement within the contexts of earlier, contemporary, and later critical theory, Robinson argues that Shklovsky and Brecht follow Tolstoy in their efforts to fight depersonalization by imbuing readers with the transformative guidance of collectivized feeling. Robinson's somatic approach to literature offers a powerful alternative to depersonalizing structuralist and poststructuralist theorization without simply retreating into conservative rejection and reaction. Both a comparative study of Russian and German literary-theoretical history and an insightful examination of the somatics of literature, this groundbreaking work provides a deeper understanding of how literature affects the reader and offers a new perspective on present-day problems in poststructuralist approaches to the human condition.