Jameson, Fredric

Brecht and Method (Radical Thinkers)

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ISBN 13:
9781844676774
author:
Jameson, Fredric
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Verso Books
language:
English
Publication Year:
2011
Pages:
280
Dimensions:
19.8 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
Genre:
German
Condition:
New
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£20.11

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Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson is a major critical work that establishes Bertolt Brecht's stature as a leading political playwright and poet of the twentieth century. This study elegantly dissects the intricate connections between Brecht's drama and politics, demonstrating how these combined to shape a unique influence on a profoundly troubled epoch. Jameson explores Brecht's method as a multi-layered process of reflection and self-reflection, reference and self-reference, which enables individuals to situate themselves historically. He also examines the themes of separation, distance, multiplicity, choice and contradiction in Brecht's entire corpus, including a cryptic work entitled Me-ti; Book of Twists and Turns. For Jameson, Brecht is not prescriptive but performative, his plays attempting to show people how to think rather than providing answers. This approach represents the ceaselessness of transformation while alienating it, making it comprehensible by making it strange.

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