Brecht and Critical Theory
Title | Brecht and Critical Theory PDF eBook |
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.
Brecht and Critical Theory
Title | Brecht and Critical Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Carney, Otis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2008-12-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0415356571 |
Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory
Title | Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Giles |
Publisher | Peter Lang Publishing |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Aesthetics and Politics
Title | Aesthetics and Politics PDF eBook |
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.
Critical Theory and Performance
Title | Critical Theory and Performance PDF eBook |
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
Philosophizing Brecht
Title | Philosophizing Brecht PDF eBook |
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.
Postmodern Brecht
Title | Postmodern Brecht PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Wright |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2016-08-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134833377 |
In this radical and deliberately controversial re-reading of Brecht, first published in 1989, Elizabeth Wright takes a new view of the playwright, giving us a more ‘Brechtian’ reading than so far achieved and making his work historically relevant here and now. The author discusses in detail Brecht’s principle theories and concepts in the light of poststructuralist theory, and reassess the aesthetics and politics with regard to Marxist critics of his own day. Wright includes a re-reading of Brecht’s early works, which presents them in relation to a postmodern theatre, and gives critical analyses of the work of Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, and Heiner Müller, who use the techniques of performance theatre, showing how they deconstruct Brecht’s distinction between illusion and reality and point to a postmodern understanding of their dialectical relation.