Brecht and method / Fredric Jameson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jameson, Fredric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Criticism and interpretation.

Brecht, Bertolt.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 184 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 1998.

Summary:

Fredric Jameson elegantly dissects the intricate connections between Brecht's drama and politics, demonstrating the way these combined to shape a unique and powerful influence on a profoundly troubled epoch. Referring to Brecht's entire corpus, he finds the key to understanding the writer in dialogue with a cryptic work, unpublished in Brecht's lifetime, entitled Me-ti; Book of Twists and Turns. Jameson thus finds Brecht not prescriptive but performative. He sees Brecht's method as a multi-layered process of reflection and self-reflection, reference and self-reference, which tears open a gap for individuals to situate themselves in the third person, and to use that self-projection in history as a basis for judgement.

Contents:

1 Nutzliches 1

2 Monadic Chronologies 5

3 Triangulating Brecht 19

Part I Doctrine/Lehre

4 Estrangements of the Estrangement-Effect 35

5 Autonomization 43

6 Episch, or, the Third Person 51

7 Dualities of the Subject 58

8 From Multiplicity to Contradiction 66

Part II Gestus

9 Pedagogy as Autoreferentiality 89

10 Parable 99

11 Grundgestus 105

12 Casus 118

13 Allegory 122

Part III Proverbs/Spruche

14 Proverbs and Peasant History 131

15 Registers and Generic Discontinuities 140

16 Representability of Capitalism 149

17 'Beinah' 161

18 Modernity 165

19 Actuality 168

20 Historicity 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859848095

OCLC:

39477726