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At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant
position in cultural and critical theory, the contributors to this
volume present a much needed corrective to the misleading images of
modernism which have dominated recent debate.
Theorizing Modernisms includes an account of European modernism,
and analysis of the work of Apollinaire and Aberti, Wyndham Lewis
and Mike Johnson, and Kert Schwitters. Steve Giles provides a much
needed overview of the relationship between modernism and the
avant-garde, postmodernism and modernity.
Contents: Steve Giles: Introduction: Culture as Counter-Culture -
Gustav Frank: Sturm und Drang: Towards a New Logic of Passion and
the Logic of German Counter-Cultures - Nicholas Saul/Susan Tebbutt:
Gypsies, Utopias and Counter-Cultures in Modern German Cultural
History - Maike Oergel: Revolutionaries, Traditionalists,
Terrorists? The Burschenschaften and the German Counter-Cultural
Tradition - Carl Weber: Performing Counter-Culture in the Vorstadt:
Nestroy's Theatre in Times of Reaction and Revolt - Malcolm Humble:
Das Reich der Erfullung: A Theme in Wilhelmine Counter-Culture -
David Midgley: 'Los von Berlin ' Anti-Urbanism as Counter-Culture
in Early Twentieth-Century Germany - Margarete Kohlenbach: Walter
Benjamin, Gustav Wyneken and the Jugendkulturbewegung - Colin
Riordan: The Green Alternative in Germany 1900-1930 - Sabine Egger:
The Roots of the East German 'Green' Movement in the 1950s - Stefan
Busch: Bluthochzeit mit Mutter Erde: Repression und Regression in
der Blut-und-Boden-Literatur - Steve Giles: Limits of the Visible:
Kracauer's Photographic Dystopia - Jerome Carroll: The Art of the
Imperceptible: A Discussion of the Aesthetics of Wolfgang Welsch -
Carmel Finnan: The Challenges of Zurich's Autonomous Youth Movement
- Matthias Uecker: Aufrufe, Bekenntnisse, Analysen: Zur
Politisierung der westdeutschen Literatur in den sechziger Jahren -
Ingo Cornils: Writing the Revolution: the Literary Representation
of the German Student Movement as Counter-Culture - Jamie Trnka:
The West German Red Army Faction and its Appropriation of Latin
American Urban Guerilla Struggles - Gerrit-Jan Berendse: Aesthetics
of (Self-)Destruction: Melville's Moby Dick, Brecht's The Measures
Taken andthe Red Army Faction - Uwe Schutte: 'Heilige, die im
Dunkel leuchten': Der Mythos der RAF im Spiegel der Literatur
nachgeborener Autoren - Moray McGowan: Ulrike Meinhof im Deutschen
Drama der Neunziger Jahre: Drei Beispiele.
At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant
position in cultural and critical theory, the contributors to this
volume present a much needed corrective to the misleading images of
modernism which have dominated recent debate. Theorizing Modernisms
includes an account of European modernism, and analysis of the work
of Apollinaire and Aberti, Wyndham Lewis and Mike Johnson, and Kert
Schwitters. Steve Giles provides a much needed overview of the
relationship between modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernism
and modernity.
"Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks" presents a
selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre
practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors,
actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these
texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to
realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes concrete
many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing.The
volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new
commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the
practice of theatre, known as the "Messingkauf," or "Buying Brass,"
including the 'Practice Pieces' for actors (rehearsal scenes for
classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second contains
rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions
of" Life of Galileo," "Antigone," "Mother Courage" and
others.Edited by an international team of Brecht scholars and
including an essay by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the
practical application of these texts for theatres and actors today,
"Brecht on Performance" is a wonderfully rich resource. The text is
illustrated with over 30 photographs from the "Modelbooks."
"Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks" presents a
selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre
practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors,
actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these
texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to
realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes concrete
many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing.The
volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new
commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the
practice of theatre, known as the "Messingkauf," or "Buying Brass,"
including the 'Practice Pieces' for actors (rehearsal scenes for
classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second contains
rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions
of" Life of Galileo," "Antigone," "Mother Courage" and
others.Edited by an international team of Brecht scholars and
including an essay by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the
practical application of these texts for theatres and actors today,
"Brecht on Performance" is a wonderfully rich resource. The text is
illustrated with over 30 photographs from the "Modelbooks."
Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate
to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we
account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new
forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance? The chapters in
this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the
postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early
twenty-first century: the status of the audience and modes of
spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims of
postdramatic theatre; postdramatic theatre's ongoing relationship
with the dramatic tradition; its dialectical qualities, or its
eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation and the
real in theatre; the role of bodies, perception, appearance and
theatricality in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and
agency in postdramatic theatre, dance and performance. Offering
analyses of a wide range of international performance examples,
scholars in this volume engage with Hans-Thies Lehmann's
theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically, relating
them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists
such as Brecht, Adorno and Benjamin, to contemporary thinkers such
as Fischer-Lichte, Ranciere and others
Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate
to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we
account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new
forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance? The chapters in
this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the
postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early
twenty-first century: the status of the audience and modes of
spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims of
postdramatic theatre; postdramatic theatre's ongoing relationship
with the dramatic tradition; its dialectical qualities, or its
eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation and the
real in theatre; the role of bodies, perception, appearance and
theatricality in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and
agency in postdramatic theatre, dance and performance. Offering
analyses of a wide range of international performance examples,
scholars in this volume engage with Hans-Thies Lehmann's
theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically, relating
them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists
such as Brecht, Adorno and Benjamin, to contemporary thinkers such
as Fischer-Lichte, Ranciere and others
Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on
Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of
Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising
texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the
more theoretical aspects of his other writing and illuminates the
practice of this hugely influential director and dramatist. The
volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new
commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the
practice of theatre, known as the Messingkauf, or Buying Brass,
including the 'Practice Pieces' for actors (rehearsal scenes for
classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second contains
rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions
of Life of Galileo, Antigone, Mother Courage and others. Edited by
an international team of Brecht scholars and including an essay by
director and teacher Di Trevis examining the practical application
of these texts for theatres and actors today, Brecht on Performance
is a wonderfully rich resource. The text is illustrated with over
30 photographs from the Modelbooks.
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Brecht On Theatre (Paperback)
Bertolt Brecht; Edited by Marc Silberman, Steve Giles, Tom Kuhn
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Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic
text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the
development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First
published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, Brecht's
writings are presented in this definitive edition featuring the
wholly revised, re-edited and expanded text produced for the 50th
anniversary of the first English publication. With additional
texts, illustrations and editorial material, and with almost half
the material newly translated, this edition provides a far fuller
and more accurate account of the development of Brecht's work and
writings. This edition features: * Clearer layout and organisation
of the text * New translations of many of the Brechtian texts
featured * Over 40 new, previously untranslated essays * Essay
titles now correspond to the German originals * A revised selection
of illustrations This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical
writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and
aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the
theories of Epic Theatre and Verfremdung evolved, and contains
notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny,
Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileoand many others of his plays. Also
included is 'Short Organon for the Theatre', Brecht's most complete
statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre.
This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and discusses, among other works, The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, and Galileo. Also included is "A Short Organum for the Theatre," Brecht's most complete exposition of his revolutionary philosophy of drama.
Translated and edited by John Willett, Brecht on Theater is essential to an understanding of one of the twentieth century's most influential dramatists.
Brecht's operatic play produced with Hauptmann, Neher and Weill was
first staged in 1930. The story is that three criminals create the
city of Mahagonny. Drinking, gambling, prize-fights and similar
activities are the sole occupation of the inhabitants, and money
rules. Mahagonny is threatened by a hurricane at the end of Act 1,
which despite much anticipation and causing much distress simply
bypasses the city. In Act 2 following the hurricane nothing is
forbidden and various scenes of debauchery occur. Jenny and Jim try
to leave but Jim cannot pay his debts and is arrested. Another
character arraigned for murder, bribes his way out of it, but Jim
has no money and is condemned to death for not paying for his
whisky. The opera ends with discontent destroying the city, which
burns as the inhabitants march away. Translated and with commentary
by Steve Giles, this critical edition is the first translation into
English of the approved Versuche text of 1930/1. An important
addition to Brecht scholarship, this edition contains a full
introduction to the play, Brecht's writing and notes on the work,
editorial notes and variants, and a study of contemporary
productions and responses.
Contents: Steve Giles: Introduction: Culture as Counter-Culture -
Gustav Frank: Sturm und Drang: Towards a New Logic of Passion and
the Logic of German Counter-Cultures - Nicholas Saul/Susan Tebbutt:
Gypsies, Utopias and Counter-Cultures in Modern German Cultural
History - Maike Oergel: Revolutionaries, Traditionalists,
Terrorists? The Burschenschaften and the German Counter-Cultural
Tradition - Carl Weber: Performing Counter-Culture in the Vorstadt:
Nestroy's Theatre in Times of Reaction and Revolt - Malcolm Humble:
Das Reich der Erfullung: A Theme in Wilhelmine Counter-Culture -
David Midgley: 'Los von Berlin!' Anti-Urbanism as Counter-Culture
in Early Twentieth-Century Germany - Margarete Kohlenbach: Walter
Benjamin, Gustav Wyneken and the Jugendkulturbewegung - Colin
Riordan: The Green Alternative in Germany 1900-1930 - Sabine Egger:
The Roots of the East German 'Green' Movement in the 1950s - Stefan
Busch: Bluthochzeit mit Mutter Erde: Repression und Regression in
der Blut-und-Boden-Literatur - Steve Giles: Limits of the Visible:
Kracauer's Photographic Dystopia - Jerome Carroll: The Art of the
Imperceptible: A Discussion of the Aesthetics of Wolfgang Welsch -
Carmel Finnan: The Challenges of Zurich's Autonomous Youth Movement
- Matthias Uecker: Aufrufe, Bekenntnisse, Analysen: Zur
Politisierung der westdeutschen Literatur in den sechziger Jahren -
Ingo Cornils: Writing the Revolution: the Literary Representation
of the German Student Movement as Counter-Culture - Jamie Trnka:
The West German Red Army Faction and its Appropriation of Latin
American Urban Guerilla Struggles - Gerrit-Jan Berendse: Aesthetics
of (Self-)Destruction: Melville's Moby Dick, Brecht's The Measures
Taken andthe Red Army Faction - Uwe Schutte: 'Heilige, die im
Dunkel leuchten': Der Mythos der RAF im Spiegel der Literatur
nachgeborener Autoren - Moray McGowan: Ulrike Meinhof im Deutschen
Drama der Neunziger Jahre: Drei Beispiele.
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