Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-15443-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in German

Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile, first published in 2000, was the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. In these essays, a strong team of contributors take the poems as the focal point for a much wider study of politics and poetry under totalitarianism. They analyse Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later German poets. This volume sheds light on Brecht's political investment in and aesthetic commitment to political poetry, and will complement the plentiful scholarship focusing on his drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Speirs, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Svendborg 1938 David Midgley; 2. The usefulness of poetry David Constantine; 3. 'Visit to a banished poet': Brecht's Svendborg Poems and the voices of exile Tom Kuhn; 4. Exile in 'Danish Siberia': the Soviet Union in the Svendborg Poems Katharine Hodgson; 5. Strength and clarity: Brecht, Auden and the 'true Democratic style' Tony Davies; 6. Satire as propaganda: Brecht's 'Deutsche Satieren' for Deutscher Freiheitssender Michael Minden; 7. The fourth door: difficulties with the truth in the Svendborg Poems Joyce Crick; 8. The uses of rhetoric in Brecht's Svendborg Poems Anna Carrdus; 9. Assuaging the anxiety of influence: poetic authority and power in the Svendborg Poems Elizabeth Boa; 10. Figures of memory in the 'Chroniken' Anthony Phelan; 11. The poet in time Ronald Speirs; 12. Those born later than Brecht: the reception of 'An die Nachgeborenen' Karen Leeder; Bibliography.