Understanding Brecht and Soyinka
Author | : Edde Maurice Iji |
Publisher | : Kraft Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Antiheroes in literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edde Maurice Iji |
Publisher | : Kraft Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Antiheroes in literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter Benjamin |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1789608880 |
A collection of essays of political philosophy by the renowned mid 20th-century critical theorist and literary critic The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and Brecht, both independently minded Marxists with a deep understanding of and passionate commitment to the emancipatory potential of cultural practices, continued to discuss, argue and correspond on topics as varied as Fascism and the work of Franz Kafka. Faced by the onset of the ‘midnight of the century’, with the Nazi subversion of the Weimar Republic in Germany and the Stalinist degeneration of the revolution in Russia, both men, in their own way, strove to keep alive the tradition of dialectical critique of the existing order and radical intervention in the world to transform it. In Understanding Brecht we find collected together Benjamin’s most sensitive and probing writing on the dramatic and poetic work of his friend and tutor. Stimulated by Brecht’s oeuvre and theorising his particular dramatic techniques—such as the famous ‘estrangement effect’—Benjamin developed his own ideas about the role of art and the artist in crisis-ridden society. This volume contains Benjamin’s introductions to Brecht’s theory or epic theatre and close textual analyses of twelve poems by Brecht (printed in translation here) which exemplify Benjamin’s insistence that literary form and content are indivisible. Elsewhere Benjamin discusses the plays The Mother, Terror and Misery of the Third Reich, and The Threepenny Opera, digressing for some general remarks on Marx and satire. Here we also find Benjamin’s masterful essay “The Author as Producer” as well as an extract from his diaries that records the intense conversations held in the late 1930s in Denmark (Brecht’s place of exile) between the two most important cultural theorists of this century. In these discussions, the two men talked of subjects as diverse as the work of Franz Kafka, the unfolding Soviet Trials, and the problems of literary work on the edge of international war.
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : 9780914478492 |
Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Author | : James Gibbs |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9780865432192 |
A broad introduction to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer and the varieties of criticism they have elicited. There are many different critical methodologies represented, ranging from those concerned with verbal texture (linguistic, structural, and textual approaches) to those focusing on cultural context (historical, mythological, and comparative studies). Most of the articles were originally published in Research in African Literatures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Authors, Nigerian |
ISBN | : 9781617032530 |
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Author | : Victor O. Aire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : African literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136119000 |
An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Author | : Ofoego, Obioma |
Publisher | : Kwara State University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 978539204X |
This book explores in depth the uses of language in Wole Soyinka’s plays, poetry and prose. The author approaches Soyinka’s works through meticulous close readings, giving the writer his due by capturing the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of his language.