Brecht & Critical Theory

by Carney, Sean

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Title Statements

Full title :Brecht & Critical Theory.

Summary

Arguing that Brecht's aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht's aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth century: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Theodor W. Adorno and Raymond Williams. Re-reading Brecht through the lens of post-structuralism, Sean Carney asserts that there is a Lacanian Brecht and a Derridean Brecht: the result of which is a new Brecht whose vital importance for the present is located in decentred theories of subjectivityBrecht and Critical Theory maps the many ways in which Brechtian thinking pervades critical thought today, informing the critical tools and stances that make up the contemporary study of aesthetics.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2005

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (209 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781134271504, 1134271506
oclc:on1058205298
LC Classification:PT2603.R39
Dewey Decimal:832.912

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- Introduction: Brecht now -- 1 Brecht and language -- Marxism and rhetoric -- Brecht and postmodernism -- Verfremdungseffekt and Unheimlich -- Psychoanalysis and class-consciousness -- Brecht and class -- Gestus, language, negation -- Marxism and science -- Lacanian gestus -- 2 Dialectical images -- Dialectic at a standstill -- Jetztzeit -- Dialectical images -- Modelbooks -- Kafka's gestus -- Trauerspiel -- Brechtian Trauerspiel -- Mourning as a socially symbolic act -- Hamlet -- 'Marx -- das Unheimliche' -- 3 Brecht and myth -- The structuralist activity -- The ruins of costume -- Brechtian photography -- Brecht and myth -- Numen and punctum -- The maternal -- Fetishism -- Peaceable speech -- The art of living -- Seismology -- 4 Brecht and narrative -- An ethics of Marxism -- The political unconscious -- Contradiction -- Allegory's violence: Life of Galileo -- Jameson, Frye, anagogy -- Menippean satire -- Dialogism and the dialectic -- Der Dreigroschenroman -- 5 Brecht and tragedy -- Dialectics in the theatre -- Negative dialectics -- Dialectical stereoscopy -- Adorno and Brecht -- Endgame -- Moder…