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Bertolt Brecht’s Adaptations and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book examines Brecht’s theory and method of adaptation. It first reconstructs it into a single framework using four key Brechtian concepts: Fabel, gestus, estrangement effects, and historicizing. It then uses that framework to analyse four Brechtian adaptations: The Tutor, Don Juan, “Socrates Wounded,” and Kriegsfibel. It argues that adaptation occupies a previously unrealised central place in Brecht’s thought, demonstrating that he provides us with a unique way to think about adaptation—as material transformation. It concludes by describing how Brecht is useful for anti-capitalist aesthetics today because through him one can foster a new consciousness which enables better social conditions to be created. This book is practical for both theatre practitioners and artists as well as theorists.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-20
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt488 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieConsciousness, Literature and the Arts
Antal sidor204
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004721869

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AcknowledgementsList of Figures1 Why Brecht and Why His Adaptations?1 Introduction2 A Vexing Quirk in Brechtian Scholarship and the Weaponization of Art-Philosophy3 A Lost Revolution4 Weaponization5 Objectives, Research Question, and Contribution6 Overview of Book2 Brecht’s Theory and Method of Adaptation1 Brecht’s Politics2 Marxism’s Impact on Brecht’s Work3 Marxism’s Impact on Brecht’s Biography4 Problems with the Bourgeois Theatrical Heritage5 Brecht on the Bourgeois Ideology6 Making Conscious Experience Possible7 Conscious Experience and the Classics8 The Fabel and Gestus8.1 Gestus8.2 Social Gestus8.3 Gestus in Text8.4 The Fabel and Adaptation9 Adaptation and Estrangement Effects10 Historicizing and Intertextual Discourse10.1 Historicizing10.2 Intertextual Discourse11 Praxis and Experimentation11.1 Praxis11.2 Experimentation12 Summary3 Freedom and Alienation in Brecht’s The Tutor1 Introduction2 Synopsis of Lenz’s The Tutor2.1 Act i2.2 Act ii2.3 Act iii2.4 Act iv2.5 Act v3 Interpretive Summary of Brecht’s The Tutor3.1 Prologue3.2 Act 13.3 Act 23.4 Act 33.5 Interlude3.6 Act 43.7 Act 53.8 Epilogue4 Summary4 Conquest and Magical Thinking in Brecht’s Don Juan1 Introduction1.1 A Transferable Method1.2 Chapter Overview2 Summary of Molière’s Don Juan2.1 Act i2.2 Act ii2.3 Act iii2.4 Act iv2.5 Act v3 Interpretive Summary of Brecht’s Don Juan3.1 Act i3.2 Act ii3.3 Act iii3.4 Act iv4 Summary5 Courage and Action in Brecht’s “Socrates Wounded”1 Introduction2 Summary of Plato’s Socrates at Delium2.1 The Unity of the Virtues and Courage as Wisdom2.2 Courage in the Laches2.3 Courage in the Apology3 Interpretive Summary of “Socrates Wounded”4 Summary6 War and Capitalism in Brecht’s Kriegsfibel1 Introduction1.1 The Photos and Layout of the Kriegsfibel1.2 Epigrams in the Kriegsfibel2 Fabel in the Kriegsfibel3 Estrangement in the Kriegsfibel3.1 Cutting and Pasting as Estrangement3.2 Estrangement in the Text-Pictorial Interface3.2.1 The Verbal and the Visual3.2.2 Elevated Poetic Diction and Prosaic Imagery3.3 Estrangement through Visual Flow4 Gestus in the Kriegsfibel5 Kriegsfibel Analysis5.1 Non-linear Narrative Structure5.2 Ideological Underpinnings5.2.1 Photo-Epigram 28 and the Gestus of Being Mesmerised5.2.2 Photo-Epigram 51 and the Gestus of Being Blind5.2.3 Photo-Epigram 8 and the Gestus of Keeping an Eye Out5.2.4 Photo-Epigram 33 and the Gestus of Going up in Smoke5.2.5 Photo-Epigram 15 and the Gestus of Fear5.3 Material Interests5.3.1 Photo-Epigram 5 and the Gestus of Shooting the Bird5.3.2 Photo-Epigrams 37 and the Gestus of Lusting After5.3.3 Photo-Epigram 44 and the Gestus of Remembering the Dead5.4 What Happens Next?5.4.1 Photo-Epigrams 58 & 64 and the Gestus of Hanging Your Head in Defeat5.4.2 Photo-Epigram 69 and the Gestus of Fascism5.4.3 The Gestus of Learning and Historicizing6 Summary7 Brecht’s Theory and Method of Adaptation and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today1 Summary2 Making Brecht Whole2.1 Contribution to Brechtian Scholarship2.2 Contribution to Adaptation Studies Scholarship2.3 Contribution to Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today: Is Brecht Still Useful?2.3.1 Utility of Gestus2.3.2 Utility of Estrangement Effects and Historicizing2.3.3 Utility of Fabel2.3.4 Utility of Brecht’s Theory and Method of Adaptation2.3.5 Utility of Theory-Praxis3 Conclusion4 In(conclusion)Index