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E-BooksThe Partnership Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink



The Partnership Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink
Free Download Pamela Katz, "The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink"
English | 2015 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 0385534914, 0307744167 | EPUB | 5,7 mb
Among the most creative and outsized personalities of the Weimar Republic, that sizzling yet decadent epoch between the Great War and the Nazis' rise to power, were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the rebellious avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two young geniuses and the three women vital to their work-actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elizabeth Hauptmann-joined talents to create the theatrical and musical masterworksThe Threepenny OperaandThe Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, only to split in rancor as their culture cracked open and their aesthetic and temperamental differences became irreconcilable.The Partnershipis the first book to tell the full story of Brecht and Weill's impulsive, combustible partnership, the compelling psychological drama of one of the most important creative collaborations of the past century. It is also the first book to give full credit where it is richly due to the three women whose creative gifts contributed enormously to their masterworks. And it tells the thrilling and iconic story of artistic daring entwined with sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic's most fevered years, a time when art and politics and society were inextricably mixed.



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E-BooksChinese Dreams Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel



Chinese Dreams Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel
Free Download Eric R. J. Hayot, "Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel"
English | 2012 | pages: 242 | ISBN: 0472034863, 0472113402 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
China's profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary journal Tel quel. Chinese Dreams explores the complex, intricate relationship between various "Chinas"-as texts-and the nation/culture known simply as "China"-their context-within the work of these writers. Eric Hayot calls into question the very means of representing otherness in the history of the West and ultimately asks if it might be possible to attend to the political meaning of imagining the other, while still enjoying the pleasures and possibilities of such dreaming. The latest edition of this critically acclaimed book includes a new preface by the author.



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E-BooksBrecht Sourcebook



Brecht Sourcebook
Free Download Carol Martin, "Brecht Sourcebook"
English | 1999 | pages: 260 | ISBN: 0415200431, 0415200423 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of the most important articles written about Brecht between 1957 and 1997. The collection explores a wide range of viewpoints about Brecht's theatre theories and practice, as well as including three plays not otherwise available in English: The Beggar or The Dead Dog, Baden Lehrstuck and The Seven Deadly Sins of the Lower Middle Class.



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E-BooksAlienation and Theatricality Diderot After Brecht



Alienation and Theatricality Diderot After Brecht
Free Download Phoebe von Held, "Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot After Brecht"
English | 2011 | pages: 254 | ISBN: 1906540128, 0367602148 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory. However, as Phoebe von Held argues in this book, 'alienation' as a sociological and aesthetic notionavant la lettre had already surfaced in the thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot. This original study destabilizes the conventional understanding of alienation through a reading ofLe Paradoxe sur le comedien, Le Neveu de Rameau and other works by Diderot, opening up new ways of interpretation and aesthetic practices. If alienation constitutes a historical development for the Marxist Brecht, for Diderot it defines an existential condition. Brecht uses the alienation-effect to undermine a form of naturalism based on subjectivity, identification and illusion; Diderot, by contrast, plunges the spectator into identification and illusion, to produce an aesthetic of theatricality that is profoundly alienating and yet remains anchored in subjectivity.



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E-BooksEngaging with Brecht Making Theatre in the Twenty-first Century



Engaging with Brecht Making Theatre in the Twenty-first Century
Bill Gelber, "Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the Twenty-first Century"
English | ISBN: 3031203933 | 2023 | 282 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht's continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique step-by-step process for realizing Brecht's ways of working onstage using the 2015 Texas Tech University production of Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children as a model for exploration. Particular Brecht concepts―the epic, Verfremdung, the Fabel, gestus, historicization, literarization, the "Not...but," Arrangement, and the Separation of the Elements―are explained and applied to scenes and plays. Brecht's complicated relationship with Konstantin Stanislavsky is also explored in relation to their separate views on acting. For theatrical practitioners and educators, this volume is a record of pedagogical engagement, an empirical study of Brecht's work in performance at a higher institution of learning using graduate and undergraduate students.



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E-BooksBrecht and Tragedy Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics





Brecht and Tragedy Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics
Martin Revermann, "Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics"
English | ISBN: 1108489680 | 2021 | 492 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and tragic tradition argues that this is fundamental for understanding his radicalism. Featuring an extensive discussion of The Antigone of Sophocles (1948) and further related works (the Antigone model book and the Small Organon for the Theatre), this monograph includes the first-ever publication of the complete set of colour photographs taken by Ruth Berlau. This is complemented by comparatist explorations of many of Brecht's own plays as his experiments with tragedy conceptualized as the 'big form'. The significance for Brecht of the Greek tragic tradition is positioned in relation to other formative influences on his work (Asian theatre, Naturalism, comedy, Schiller and Shakespeare). Brecht emerges as a theatre artist of enormous range and creativity, who has succeeded in re-shaping and re-energizing tragedy and has carved paths for its continued artistic and political relevance.



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