Brecht and critical theory dialectics and contemporary aestics

• Main Author: Carney, Sean (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2005
• Subjects: Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956 > Aesthetics; Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956 > Influence; Aesthetics, Modern > 21st century
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Arguing that Brecht's aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht's aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twen...

Table of Contents:

• 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
• 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?
• 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
• 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
• Brecht and tragedy
• Dialectics in the theatre
• Negative dialectics
• Dialectical stereoscopy
• Adorno and Brecht
• Endgame
• Modern tragedy
• Brechtian tragedy