German Literary Critics - Theodor W. Adorno, German Literature, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Dilthey, August Wilhelm Schlegel (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Theodor W. Adorno, German literature, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Dilthey, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Luise Rinser, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Hans Mayer, Adam Muller, Theo Breuer, Christa Wolf, Walter Boehlich, Walter Arthur Berendsohn, Ulrich Karger, Ludolf Wienbarg, Dieter Borchmeyer, Anneli Ute Gabanyi, Alexander Baumgartner, Hans Egon Holthusen, Ernst Robert Curtius, Margarete Steffin, Michael Maar, William Kreiten, Johann Gottfried Gruber, Johann Heinrich Merck, Caroline Schelling, Wolfgang Menzel, Gottfried Bernhardy, Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Monika Fludernik, Julius Leopold Klein, Denis Scheck, Karl Elze, Eduard Castle, Hermann Eris Busse. Excerpt: Bertolt Brecht (German pronunciation: born .); 10 February 1898 - 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble-the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel. From his late 20s Brecht remained a lifelong committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Erwin Piscator and Vsevolod Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political ideas and the creation of a critical aesthetics of dialectical materialism. Brecht's modernist concern with drama-as-a-medium led to his refinement of the 'epic form' of the drama. This dramatic form is related to similar modernist innovations in other arts, including the strategy of divergent chapters in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, Sergei Eisenstein's evolution of a construct...