Brecht & Critical Theory
Brecht & Critical Theory

Author: Sean Carney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1134271492

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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 subjectivity Brecht 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.

Brecht and Critical Theory
Brecht and Critical Theory

Author: Sean Carney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-24

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1000143228

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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 subjectivity. Brecht 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.

Critical Theory and Performance
Critical Theory and Performance

Author: Janelle G. Reinelt

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780472068869

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Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance

Philosophizing Brecht
Philosophizing Brecht

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9004404503

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This anthology unites scholars from varied backgrounds with the notion that the theories and artistic productions of Bertolt Brecht are key missing links in bridging diverse discourses in social philosophy, theatre, consciousness studies, and aesthetics. It offers readers interdisciplinary perspectives that create unique dialogues between Brecht and important thinkers such as Althusser, Anders, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Godard, Marx, and Plato. While exploring salient topics such as consciousness, courage, ethics, political aesthetics, and representations of race and the body, it penetrates the philosophical Brecht seeing in him the never-ending dialectic—the idea, the theory, the narrative, the character that is never foreclosed. This book is an essential read for all those interested in Brecht as a socio-cultural theorist and for theatre practitioners. Contributors: Kevin S. Amidon, José María Durán, Felix J. Fuch, Philip Glahn, Jim Grilli, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Norman Roessler, Jeremy Spencer, Anthony Squiers, Peter Zazzali.

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht

Author: International Brecht Society

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780719008061

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Aesthetics and Politics
Aesthetics and Politics

Author: Theodor Adorno

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1788738586

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An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.

Ring Lardner and the Other
Ring Lardner and the Other

Author: Douglas Robinson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0195076001

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Not only examining the writings of a critically neglected American novelist of the early 20th century, this study also uses Ring Lardner both as the basis for a theoretical inquiry into language and literature, and as a study of men and masculinity at the turn of the century.