Oesmann Staging History

Brecht's Social Concepts of Ideology
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8360-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 241 Seiten

Examines Brecht's use of the theatre as a public arena for political change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oesmann, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Brecht and Theory
Realism and Reversed Perception
Art as the Speaker of History
Natural History
Mimetic Activities
2 Prehistories
The Theatrical Destruction of Subjectivity
The Unorganized Material
Instincts and Transformations
3 Man Between Material and Social Order
Material Against Identity: Mann ist Mann
Brecht’s Concept of the Public Sphere
The Captured Material (Exploitation/Imploitation)
Political Distinctions
4 Revolution: Change and Persistence
The Teaching Plays: Brecht’s Theatre of Poverty
Social Space and Human Standing
Einverständnis: Consent in Crisis
Subject Bound/Thought Unbound
Defacement and Death
5 Brecht’s Archaeology of Knowledge
The Genealogy of Terror
Memory and Morality
Body in Time: Haltung
Thought in Time: Lehre
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Astrid Oesmann is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at The University of Iowa