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Essays on twentieth century German drama and theater : an American reception, 1977-1999 / edited by Hellmut Hal Rennert. [electronic resource]
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Available from 2004 until 2004. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rennert, Hellmut H, Author.
- Series:
- New German-American studies ; v. 19.
- New German-American studies = Neue deutsch-amerikanische Studien ; ol. 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- German drama.
- Theater--Germany--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- German drama--20th century--Appreciation--United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 321 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- German drama and theater in German-speaking countries today
- I. Performance and theory. Incoherence as meaning: from the real to the explosive
- Sign and referent in the work of Robert Wilson: reconstituting the human form
- Forging a link between stage and world: the genre of director's drama
- Spatio-temporality as theater performance
- The uses of audience participation: theater's engagement in social experience
- Building an audience: Craig's and Brecht's theories of dramatic performance
- II. Expressionism. Georg Kaiser's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts as a metaphor for chaos
- Ernst Toller's Masse-Mensch: the individual versus the collective
- Hasenclever's Sinnenglück und Seelenfrieden as metaphor for suicide
- Reinhard Goering's Seeschlacht and the expressionist vision
- Mankind and Sun: German-American expressionism
- Expressionism and deconstructionism: a critical comparison
- Arnolt Bronnen's austro-expressionist war plays
- III. Third Reich. The theater in and out of the Third Reich: the German stage "In [entitled] Extremis"
- Anti war discourse in war drama: Sigmund Graff and Die endlose Strasse
- An "ancient German rediscovered": the Nazi Widukind plays of Forster and Kiss
- Stages of reform: Caroline Neuber/Die Neuberin in the Third Reich
- Gewalt, Gott, Natur, Volk: the performance of Nazi ideology in Kolbenheyer's Gregor und Heinrich
- Gerhart Hauptmann's Ratten (1911) at the Rose (1936)
- Rules, regulations, and the Reich: comedy under the auspices of the Propaganda Ministry
- IV. Bertolt Brecht. The performance of ideology and dialectics in Brecht's Life of Galileo
- Reviving Brecht: transformations, or the reciprocity of outward signs and inward states
- Saving the fallen city of Mahagonny: the musical elaboration of Brecht's epic theater
- Brecht's gestic vision for the opera: why the shock of recognition is more powerful in the Rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny than in The three penny opera
- Brecht's Life of Galileo as a Aristotelian tragedy
- Post-World War II. Max Frisch's The great wall of China and the language of re-emergence
- A fictional response to political circumstance: Martin Walser's The rabbit race Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Das Opfer Helena: another triumph of the "they" VI. Contemporary. Cry Beyond the Hamlets: Peter Handke's dramatic poem and the tragic tradition The rebellion of the body against the effects of ideas: Heiner Müller's concept of tragedy
- Darkness visible: Peter Turrini and the scripted life
- Woman takes center stage: three versions of "The female condition" on the German theater stage today
- The representation of foreigners in German and Austrian plays of the 1990s by female playwrights
- Conquering the south pole and other places in Germany: Manfred Karge's plays.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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