Essays on the German Theater |
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Author:
| Brecht, Bertolt Marx, Wagner, |
Editor:
| Herzfeld-Sander, Margaret |
Series title: | German Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-8264-0296-7 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1985 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two...
More DescriptionIt is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be seen and appreciated.>