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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Bertolt Brecht"”.
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The Galileo plays of Bertolt Brecht and Barrie Stavis
During the 1940s Bertolt Brecht and Barrie Stavis simultaneously explored the morality of modern science through the dramatization of Galileo's seventeenth century recantation of the truth involving the physical universe. Significant, yet contrasting statements were made about the modern world.
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Untersuchungen zum Theater Karl Valentins und zu seinen Auswirkungen auf Bertolt Brecht
… of Karl Valentin's drama on the development of Bertolt Brecht's theatrical theories
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The Younger Generation in Brecht's Dramatic Work
While it is well-known that Bertolt Brecht made substantial contributions to "Children's Literature" and that young characters appear frequently in his literary oeuvre, it has not been sufficiently noticed that major conflicts in Brecht's dramatic work, commonly identified as class conflict, …
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The expressionist debate in the light of the concerns of postmodernity : Lukacs, Brecht, Lyotard and Habermas
… investigates the debate between Georg Lukács and Bertolt Brecht in the 1930s, known as the Expressionist Debate and the controversy between Jean-Francais Lyotard and Juergen Habermas. which took place in the 1980s. The two debates. both of which took place among writers of the Left are juxtaposed …
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Elisabeth Hauptmann: Brecht's silent collaborator
… with Elisabeth Hauptmann's contributions to Bertolt Brecht's works. Handwritten and typed material from the ""Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv"" and the ""Literaturarchiv der Akademie der Kunste,"" where Elisabeth Hauptmann's papers are held in Berlin, as well as the Brecht Collection at Harvard, …
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A dramaturgia como reescrita da história
… como Ésquilo, Eurípides, Sêneca, Lope de Vega, Bertolt Brecht, Gehart Hauptmann, Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, Augusto Boal, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Henry de Motherlant, Anamaria Nunes, Cleise Furtado Mendes, Oswald Barroso, Henrique Fontes, Joël Pommerat e Aldri Anunciação.
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Visualising Creative Destruction: A Photographic Study of Urban Change in Salford, UK
… inspiration from Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula and Bertolt Brecht, I produce a series of visual studies into the processual, material and spatial characteristics of this unique form of transformational urban change. Creative destruction, almost invariably addressed directly in text or visualised …
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Prostitution as Power: Selected Works of Lotte Lenya (1910-1940)
… take place in selected works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, regarding the leading female figure of their works - Lotte Lenya. In an attempt to address this theme within specific confinements, this thesis engages in a scholarly and critical examination of selected songs from the collaborative …
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The Disquieting Image, Retracing the filmmaking of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
… I build on ideas drawn from playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, and philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin’s dialectic practice of literary montage mobilized as a challenge to historical determinism, the idea of a temporal continuum, and faith in the continuity of progress, …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… self-conscious literary forms. A decade before Bertolt Brecht developed his Verfremdungseffekt (or "alienation effect"), Sarah N. Cleghorn, Anna Louise Strong, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (in his short story "Winter Dreams") wrote dialectical metafiction, a literary form that reproduces the …
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Morality and Society in J.M.R. Lenz’s dramas and their resonance in the works of G. Büchner and B. Brecht
… tracing a line to Georg Büchner (1813–37) and Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956). It focuses on themes of morality and society that reappear in dramatic works of all three authors, and particularly, their use and analysis of realistic writing styles on stage for a radical, social purpose. Chapter One …
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Herbert Blau: directing a revolution in American theatre, 1952-1965
… work onstage through three key productions: Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children (1956); Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1957-58); and, Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death (1965). These productions represent the arc of Blau’s directing career from beginning theory through the …
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Till Coffee Do Us Part
… artificial the construct is. This is not unlike Bertolt Brecht wishing the lights to be seen, and the singing in Brecht shows (such as Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, collaborations with Kurt Weill) to be separated from the action. The largest struggle was putting all these disparate …
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Brecht from page to mouth: a practical approach to Brecht's theatre on foot of an original translation of his Baallearning play fragments of 1930
… may be useful, but only the second is pleasant - Bertolt Brecht This thesis has at its heart the translation of the fragments of the 1930 learning play project Brecht was planning on the basis of his already well-known and notorious theatrical creation Baal, the protagonist of his eponymous play. …
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Kontroverses Erbe und Innovation : die Novelle Die Reisebegegnung von Anna Seghers im literaturpolitischen Kontext der DDR der siebziger Jahre
… she argued on the same side as Ernst Bloch and Bertolt Brecht against the concept of realism upheld by Lukacs. The fourth chapter deals with the depiction of the three literary figures in the novella. It attempts to show in how far this figuration deviates from the orthodox Marxist reception of …
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The Artist as a Dramatic Character in Contemporary British Drama: A Critical Study of Stoppard, Barker and Wertenbaker
… Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, Viktor Shklovsky, Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Paul Sartre. This investigation concentrates on the conceptualization and contribution of those intellectuals to the definition of the role of the artist. Though I focus mainly on the period from the 1970s to the 2000s …
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The literary criticism of Walter Benjamin
… the notable exceptions of Gershom Scholem and Bertolt Brecht—were connected with the <em>Frankfurt Institut für Sozialforschung</em>.</p> <p>As Hannah Arendt has pointed out in her study, Benjamin was followed by bad luck all his life. His attempt to gain a position at a German university …
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Die rundköpfe und die spitzköpfe oder reich und reich gesellt sich gern Ein Greuelmärchen: an analysis of Bertolt Brecht’s creative reception of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
… of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure by Bertolt Brecht, whose parable Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe represents the fruit of this literary relationship. Before the investigation of the reception process itself could be undertaken, an interpretation of the model, Measure for Measure, was …
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Hands-On Realism: Perception, Imagination, and Speech in Brecht's Poetry
Brecht’s somewhat idiosyncratic conception of realist art appears to pit “Erlebnisse” unfavourably against “Kenntnisse”. With all that is encompassed by the term Verfremdung, Brecht is understood to have looked to thwart would-be passive spectators. But while it is tempting to think of Brecht in …
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Television Without Frontiers
Television Without Frontiers revolves around a TV experiment titled Eurikon, realized in 1982 in an effort to explore the possibility of developing a public service channel spanning the entirety of Western Europe and the Mediterranean region. The experiment was initiated by the European Broadcast …