Bertolt Brecht. Centenary Essays.

Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 1998. Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: [vi], iv, 260pp., [2]pp., intooduction, 17 contributions, references, list of contributors. CONTENTS: Preface. 1. Tom Kuhn: Bertolt Brecht and notions of collaboration. 2. Julian Preece: The many faces of B.B. in fiction and memoir: from Fleisser and Feuchtwanger to Canetti and Weiss. 3. Christina Ujma: 'Der strenge und der schwärmende Ton'. Notes on Bloch and Brecht in the Twenties and Thirties. 4. Steve Giles: Marxist aesthetics and cultural modernity in Der Dreigroschenprozeß. 5. Rodney Livingstone: Brecht's Me-ti: a question of attitude. 6. Florian Vassen: A new poetry for the big city: Brecht's behavioural experiments in Aus dem Lesebuch für Städtebewohner. 7. John J. White: Brecht and semiotics: semiotics and Brecht. 8. Freddie Rokem: The meaning of the circle in Brecht's theatre. 9. Mark W. Roche: Comic reduction and comic negation in Brecht. 10. Anne Moss: Limits of reason: an exploration of Brecht's concept of Vernunft and the discourse of science in Leben des Galilei. 11. Terry Holmes: The suppressed science of society in Leben des Galilei. 12. Jürgen Thomaneck: B. Brecht and A. Seghers: utopian additions to the critique of the Gotha programme. 13. Peter Davies & Stephen Parker: Brecht, SED cultural policy and the issue of authority in the arts: the struggle for control of the German Academy of Arts. 14. Renate Rschtien: Relations of production? Christa Wolf's extended engagement with the legacy of Bertolt Brecht. 15. Astrid Herhoffer: Brecht: an aesthetics of conviction? 16. Carl Weber: Is there a use-value? Brecht on the American stage at the turn of the century. 17. Meg Mumford: 'Dragging' Brecht's gestus onwards: a feminist challenge. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 41: German Monitor.