Table of Contents: Staging history :

Main Author:	Oesmann, Astrid, 1961-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.
Subjects:	Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956 > Political and social views. Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956 > Criticism and interpretation. Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956. DRAMA > Continental European.
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Table of Contents:

Brecht and theory. Realism and reversed perception ; Art as the speaker of history ; Natural history ; Mimetic activities
Prehistories. The theatrical destruction of subjectivity ; The unorganized material ; Instincts and transformations
Man between material and social order. Material against identity: Mann ist Mann ; Brecht's concept of the public sphere ; The captured material (exploitation/imploitation) ; Political distinctions
Revolution: change and persistence. The teaching plays: brecht's theory of poverty ; Social space and human standing ; Einverständnis: consensus in crisis ; Subject bound/thought unbound ; Defacement and death
Brecht's archaeology of knowledge. The genealogy of terror ; Memory and morality ; Body in time: Haltung ; Thought in time: Lehre.