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Routledge Revivals : Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1988)
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First published in 1988, this books argues with received accounts to reclaim Brecht's emphasis on his self-described 'dialectical theatre', re-examining firstly the concepts of Gestus and Verfremdung and their realisation in Brecht's poetry in terms of his attempt to consciously apply the methods of dialectical materialism to art and cultural practice. The author also takes issue with the customary view of Brecht's career and politics which sees him as compromising either with Communist party dogma or bourgeois aesthetics, to find developing parallels between Brecht's political and artistic though and the critical dialectics of Marx, Lenin and Mao
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- ISBN-13: 9781138245129
- ISBN-10: 1138245127
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: January 2017
- Dimensions: 9.38 x 6.23 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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