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Author:

Oesmann, Astrid, 1961-

Title:

Staging history : Brecht's social concepts of ideology / Astrid Oesmann.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

ix, 231 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Brecht, Bertolt,--1898-1956--Political and social views.
Brecht, Bertolt,--1898-1956--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index.

Contents:

Brecht and theory. Realism and reversed perception ; Art as the speaker of history ; Natural history ; Mimetic activities -- Prehistories. The theatrical destruction of subjectivity ; The unorganized material ; Instincts and transformations -- Man between material and social order. Material against identity: Mann ist Mann ; Brecht's concept of the public sphere ; The captured material (exploitation/imploitation) ; Political distinctions -- Revolution: change and persistence. The teaching plays: brecht's theory of poverty ; Social space and human standing ; Einverst©Þndnis: consensus in crisis ; Subject bound/thought unbound ; Defacement and death -- Brecht's archaeology of knowledge. The genealogy of terror ; Memory and morality ; Body in time: Haltung ; Thought in time: Lehre.

ISBN:

9780791463857
0791463850 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54844200

LCCN:

2004007224

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)