| Description |
1 online resource (494 p.) |
| Series |
Classics after Antiquity Ser |
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Classics after Antiquity Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics -- Brecht the Radico-Traditionalist -- Greek Tragedy, Tragedy and the Western Tragic Tradition -- The Eristics of Reception -- The Structure and Goals of This Book: Point of Contact -- Positionings -- Comparatist Explorations -- Foundations -- Brecht's Personal Library: A Disembodied Collaborator -- Crown Jewels: Brecht's Knowledge and Use of Aristotle's Poetics |
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Jessner's Oedipus (1929): Entrenching the Notion of 'Schicksalstragödie' -- Nietzsche? -- The Masks of Tragedy -- Part I Point of Contact 1948 -- 1 1948: A Year of krisis -- Searching for a Home, Searching for an Audience -- The Politics and Pragmatics of Re-building -- 2 Professing Non-Aristotelianism: Brecht's Small Organon for the Theatre (1948) -- The Need for the Small Organon -- What's in a Name? -- Key Themes -- The Greek Presence (1): Revisiting Brecht's Reading of Aristotle's Poetics -- The Greek Presence (2): Points of Contact in the Small Organon -- Blind Spots -- Brecht's Aristotle |
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Appendix: 'Criticism of Aristotle's Poetics' [First published in BFA 22: 171 f., tentatively dated by the editors to c.1935] -- 3 Utilizing Greek Tragedy: Brecht's The Antigone of Sophocles (1948) -- Sophocles the Barbarian -- Genesis -- Homecoming with Hölderlin -- Translation -- Adaptation -- New Play: The Hybrid Nature of the Work -- The Problem of Antigone -- Scenic Instantiation: Hyper#x84;-ritualization#x84; and Anti-classicism -- The Prologue(s): Contextualizing Tragedy -- Significance and Reception: A Silent Revolution -- 4 The Making of a Model: Antigonemodell 1948 -- Imitating, with Profit |
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Countering Criticism -- Impact -- Two Designs and Their Implications -- Material Changes between the 1949 and the 1955 Editions -- Comparison with the Other Model Books -- Picturing Brecht and the Art of Productive Arrangement -- A Plea for Model Books -- Part II Positionings -- 5 The Other Other: Brecht's Asia -- Establishing the Binary -- Looking at Brecht's Asia via Greece -- Exploring a Destabilized Binary -- 6 Naturalism and Related Diseases -- The Closest Classic -- 'Bourgeois Narcotics Trade', or: What Is Wrong with Naturalism? -- 7 Schiller: Rival and Inspiration -- 'An Enormous Talent ...' |
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'... Without Any Value'? -- 8 Comedy and the Comic -- Comedy ... and Brecht? -- Tragi-comedies: Arturo Ui and the Aristophanic Pluto Revue -- Appendix: The Pluto Revue Materials -- 9 Shakespeare and the Road Beyond Tragedy -- The Appeal of the Bard -- Translating Shakespeare: Point and Process -- Turning a 'Tragedy of Pride' into a 'Tragedy of the People' -- Brecht's Coriolan, or How to Overcome Tragedy -- Part III Comparatist Explorations -- 10 The Tragedy of Mother Courage -- Mother? Courage? -- Tragic Themes, Tragic Ironies -- The Silent Scream -- Anti-tragic Chronotopes |
| Summary |
Explores Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, including significant archival material not seen before |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Mother! Courage! Kattrin, Brecht's Classical Tragic Heroine |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108786829 |
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1108786820 |
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