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Postmodern Brecht

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Postmodern Brecht book

A Re-Presentation

Postmodern Brecht

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Postmodern Brecht book

A Re-Presentation
ByElizabeth Wright
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1989
eBook Published 19 August 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315544588
Pages 164 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315544588
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Wright, E. (1989). Postmodern Brecht. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315544588

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|19 pages

Misunderstanding Brecht: the critical scene

chapter 2|25 pages

Brecht in theory and practice: refunctioning the theatre

chapter 3|19 pages

Theory in praxis: comedy as discourse

chapter 4|22 pages

Placing the theory: Brecht and modernity

chapter 5|23 pages

Brecht and postmodernism: theatricalizing the unpresentable

chapter 6|25 pages

The Brechtian postmodern

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