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Brecht and Method (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Brecht and Method (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Radical Thinkers
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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unpublished in Brecht's lifetime, entitled Me-ti; Book of Twists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.
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