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Brecht and critical theory : dialectics and contemporary aesthetics
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ISBN: 9780415349741 0415349745 9780415646154 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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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 -- Modern tragedy -- Brechtian tragedy.


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The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy
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ISBN: 1442663502 9781442663503 9781442645738 1442645733 9781442613973 1442613971 1442663510 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto

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The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth.


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Brecht and critical theory : dialectics and contemporary aesthetics
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ISBN: 9780415646154 0415646154 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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