Understanding Brecht
By Walter Benjamin
Introduction by Stanley Mitchell
Translated by Anna Bostock
By Walter Benjamin
Introduction by Stanley Mitchell
Translated by Anna Bostock
By Walter Benjamin
Introduction by Stanley Mitchell
Translated by Anna Bostock
By Walter Benjamin
Introduction by Stanley Mitchell
Translated by Anna Bostock
Category: Literary Criticism
Category: Literary Criticism
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$19.95
Aug 13, 2024 | ISBN 9781804294796
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Aug 13, 2024 | ISBN 9781789608885
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Praise
“A small bomb of ideas and vital argument.”
—Guardian
“He does not abolish the distance between us and Leskov, or Brecht, or Kafka; he brings it to life.”
—Times Higher Education Supplement
“If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.”
—The Listener
“Reading Walter Benjamin’s Understanding Brecht is like stumbling on a heap of gold that has been buried in a coal cellar for more than 30 years.”
—New Society
“Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century.”
—George Steiner
Table Of Contents
Introduction by Stanley Mitchell
What is Epic Theatre? [First version]
What is Epic Theatre? [Second version]
Studies for a Theory of Epic Theatre
From the Brecht Commentary
A Family Drama in the Epic Theatre
The Country where it is Forbidden to Mention the Proletariat
Commentaries on Poems by Brecht
Brecht’s Threepenny Novel
The Author as Producer
Conversations with Brecht
Bibliographical Notes
Index
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