Author: WEBER, BETTY NANCE. INTERNATIONAL BRECHT SOCIETY. HEINEN, HUBERT
Title: Bertolt Brecht, political theory and literary practice
Description: Manchester : Manchester University Press 1980. First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Library marks remain. Physical description; 209 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes inscription from previous owner. 'Essays. first presented at the fourth congress of the International Brecht Society. 17-20 November 1976. in Austin. Texas.' Proceedings of the 4th. Congress of the International Brecht Society. in Austin. Texas. Includes bibliographical references and index. Five of the papers are translated from the German. Dr Karin McPherson Collection. Contents; Foreword: Bertolt Brecht and politics / Iring Fetscher [trans. Betty Nance Weber] -- I: Political theory and practice -- Critical dialectics / Antony Tatlow -- Brecht's Marxist aesthetic : The Korsch connection / Douglas Kellner -- Me-ti / Claus-Detlef Muller [trans. by Hubert Heinen] -- The life of Galileo and the theory of revolution in permanence / Betty Nance Weber -- II: Production -- Brecht and the Soviet theater / Efim Etkind [trans. by Nancy Zeller -- Major Brecht productions in the Soviet Union since 1957 / Henry Glade -- Ironic tension and production techniques : The measures taken / Ian McLachlan -- Political climate and experimental staging : The decline of the egoist Johann Fatzer / Wolfgang Storch [trans. by Mark Ritter] -- III: Alteration of aesthetic values -- Wuolijoki's and Brecht's politization of the Volksstück / Margareta N. Deschner -- Brecht and Cahiers du cinéma / George Lellis -- IV: Uses of poetry -- The Brechtian influence and DDR poetry of political criticism / Richard J. Rundell -- The reception of a socialist classic : Kunert and Biermann read Brecht / Theodore Fiedler -- Enzensberger and the possibility of political poetry / Wulf Koepke -- Afterword: Literary practice : literary heritage / Frank Trommler [trans. by Hubert Heinen. Subjects; Brecht. Bertolt (1898-1956) Political and social views. Brecht. Bertolt (1898-1956) Pensée politique et sociale Discours. essais. conférences. Brecht. Bertolt (1898-1956) Political and social views Addresses. essays. lectures. Brecht. Bertolt (1898-1956) Political and social views Congresses. Brecht. Bertolt (1898-1956) Congresses. Conference. Bertolt Brecht (1976 : Austin). Political and social views. Political plays. German History and criticism. Politics and literature Germany History 20th century. Drama ; Criticism and appreciation. Drama ; 20th century Germany. Politics and literature Germany History 20th century. Political plays. German History and criticism. Drama in German Brecht. Bertolt - Critical studies. Drama in German Brecht. Bertolt (1898-1956) Conference proceedings.ISBN: 0820305065. Weight in Kg appr.:

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