"Verwisch die Spuren!": Bertolt Brecht’s Work and Legacy

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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9401206104

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 regard him mainly as a dramatist, the volume covers novels, poetry, film, photography, journalism and theory as well as plays.

On the Cognitive, Ethical, and Scientific Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence

On the Cognitive, Ethical, and Scientific Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Don Berkich
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030018008

This edited volume explores the intersection between philosophy and computing. It features work presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. The 23 contributions to this volume neatly represent a cross section of 40 papers, four keynote addresses, and eight symposia as they cut across six distinct research agendas. The volume begins with foundational studies in computation and information, epistemology and philosophy of science, and logic. The contributions next examine research into computational aspects of cognition and philosophy of mind. This leads to a look at moral dimensions of man-machine interaction as well as issues of trust, privacy, and justice. This multi-disciplinary or, better yet, a-disciplinary investigation reveals the fruitfulness of erasing distinctions among and boundaries between established academic disciplines. This should come as no surprise. The computational turn itself is a-disciplinary and no former discipline, whether scientific, artistic, or humanistic, has remained unchanged. Rigorous reflection on the nature of these changes opens the door to inquiry into the nature of the world, what constitutes our knowledge of it, and our understanding of our place in it. These investigations are only just beginning. The contributions to this volume make this clear: many encourage further research and end with open questions.

Selected Writings: 1938-1940

Selected Writings: 1938-1940
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780674010765

Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life
Author: Stephen Parker
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 716
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 140815563X

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.

Unreal City

Unreal City
Author: Edward Timms
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1985
Genre: Cities and towns in art
ISBN: 9780719023156

Business Rhetoric in German Novels

Business Rhetoric in German Novels
Author: Ernest Schonfield
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1571139834

Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature and business have in common a reliance on language, understood in a creative, performative, and rhetorical sense.

Poems, 1913-1956

Poems, 1913-1956
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1979
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780878300723

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Arctic Modernities

Arctic Modernities
Author: Heidi Hansson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527506916

Less tangible than melting polar glaciers or the changing social conditions in northern societies, the modern Arctic represented in writings, visual images and films has to a large extent been neglected in scholarship and policy-making. However, the modern Arctic is a not only a natural environment dramatically impacted by human activities. It is also an incongruous amalgamation of exoticized indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. The chapters in this volume examine the modern Arctic from all these perspectives. They demonstrate to what extent the processes of modernization have changed the discursive signification of the Arctic. They also investigate the extent to which the traditions of heroic Arctic images – whether these traditions are affirmed, contested or repudiated – have continued to shape, influence and inform modern discourses. Sometimes the Arctic is seen as synonymous with modernity itself. Sometimes it appears as a utopian space signalling a different future. However, it still often represents the continued survival within modernity of the past as nostalgia, longing, dream and myth.