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Table of Contents
Epic Opera and Epic Theater: "Anmerkungen zur Oper Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" (1930)
Conceptualizing the Exile Work: "nicht-artistotelisches Theater," "Verfremdung," "Historisierung"
The Dramaturgical Poems and Their Contexts
Preparations for East Berlin: Kleines Organon für das Theater (1948)
"Viel Theorie in Dialogform": The Messingkauf project (1939-1956)
Works Consulted
Index
Reviews
John J. White's thorough, many-faceted account of the sources and evolution of Brecht's ideas and how he sought to realize them provides a wealth of astute analysis useful to theatrical practitioners, to teachers and scholars of literature, and, in part at least, to social scientists. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW, 2006
White's presentation excels in close readings of strategically chosen texts in five chronologically arranged chapters....This is a solid volume with abundant explanatory footnotes, comprehensive bibliography, and detailed index. GERMAN QUARTERLY
Thanks to White's insights ... Brecht's fierce critical intelligence and the philosophical irony that modulates and redeems it strike the reader anew. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory is the first detailed study in English of Brecht's writings on the theatre to take into account the substantial new material first made available in the recent German edition of his collected works.... [A work] suggesting new possibilities for Brecht scholars and others interested in his works. GERMANIC NOTES AND REVIEWS
This is an encyclopaedic undertaking whose philological rigour marks the study as a major work of Germanistik. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
[A] nuanced, thorough, and stimulating investigation cum critical evaluation of Brecht's theorizing on theater.... MONATSHEFTE
Brecht was obliged to calibrate his statements for particular audiences and situations.... Temperamentally ... [he] was disposed to be poetically indirect rather than to strive for maximum transparency. John J. White deserves considerable credit both for taking on the challenge of analyzing Brecht's theory as a whole, and for doing so in a manner that never loses sight of those complexities. TEXT AND PRESENTATION
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