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Author:   Anthony Squiers
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   61
Weight:   0.488kg
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9789004721869

ISBN 10:   900472186
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   20 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 Why Brecht and Why His Adaptations?  1 Introduction  2 A Vexing Quirk in Brechtian Scholarship and the Weaponization of Art-Philosophy  3 A Lost Revolution  4 Weaponization  5 Objectives, Research Question, and Contribution  6 Overview of Book 2 Brecht’s Theory and Method of Adaptation  1 Brecht’s Politics  2 Marxism’s Impact on Brecht’s Work  3 Marxism’s Impact on Brecht’s Biography  4 Problems with the Bourgeois Theatrical Heritage  5 Brecht on the Bourgeois Ideology  6 Making Conscious Experience Possible  7 Conscious Experience and the Classics  8 The Fabel and Gestus  8.1 Gestus  8.2 Social Gestus  8.3 Gestus in Text  8.4 The Fabel and Adaptation  9 Adaptation and Estrangement Effects  10 Historicizing and Intertextual Discourse  10.1 Historicizing  10.2 Intertextual Discourse  11 Praxis and Experimentation  11.1 Praxis  11.2 Experimentation  12 Summary 3 Freedom and Alienation in Brecht’s The Tutor  1 Introduction  2 Synopsis of Lenz’s The Tutor  2.1 Act i  2.2 Act ii  2.3 Act iii  2.4 Act iv  2.5 Act v  3 Interpretive Summary of Brecht’s The Tutor  3.1 Prologue  3.2 Act 1  3.3 Act 2  3.4 Act 3  3.5 Interlude  3.6 Act 4  3.7 Act 5  3.8 Epilogue  4 Summary 4 Conquest and Magical Thinking in Brecht’s Don Juan  1 Introduction  1.1 A Transferable Method  1.2 Chapter Overview  2 Summary of Molière’s Don Juan  2.1 Act i  2.2 Act ii  2.3 Act iii  2.4 Act iv  2.5 Act v  3 Interpretive Summary of Brecht’s Don Juan  3.1 Act i  3.2 Act ii  3.3 Act iii  3.4 Act iv  4 Summary 5 Courage and Action in Brecht’s “Socrates Wounded”  1 Introduction  2 Summary of Plato’s Socrates at Delium  2.1 The Unity of the Virtues and Courage as Wisdom  2.2 Courage in the Laches  2.3 Courage in the Apology  3 Interpretive Summary of “Socrates Wounded”  4 Summary 6 War and Capitalism in Brecht’s Kriegsfibel  1 Introduction  1.1 The Photos and Layout of the Kriegsfibel  1.2 Epigrams in the Kriegsfibel  2 Fabel in the Kriegsfibel  3 Estrangement in the Kriegsfibel  3.1 Cutting and Pasting as Estrangement  3.2 Estrangement in the Text-Pictorial Interface  3.2.1 The Verbal and the Visual  3.2.2 Elevated Poetic Diction and Prosaic Imagery  3.3 Estrangement through Visual Flow  4 Gestus in the Kriegsfibel  5 Kriegsfibel Analysis  5.1 Non-linear Narrative Structure  5.2 Ideological Underpinnings  5.2.1 Photo-Epigram 28 and the Gestus of Being Mesmerised  5.2.2 Photo-Epigram 51 and the Gestus of Being Blind  5.2.3 Photo-Epigram 8 and the Gestus of Keeping an Eye Out  5.2.4 Photo-Epigram 33 and the Gestus of Going up in Smoke  5.2.5 Photo-Epigram 15 and the Gestus of Fear  5.3 Material Interests  5.3.1 Photo-Epigram 5 and the Gestus of Shooting the Bird  5.3.2 Photo-Epigrams 37 and the Gestus of Lusting After  5.3.3 Photo-Epigram 44 and the Gestus of Remembering the Dead  5.4 What Happens Next?  5.4.1 Photo-Epigrams 58 & 64 and the Gestus of Hanging Your Head in Defeat  5.4.2 Photo-Epigram 69 and the Gestus of Fascism  5.4.3 The Gestus of Learning and Historicizing  6 Summary 7 Brecht’s Theory and Method of Adaptation and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today  1 Summary  2 Making Brecht Whole  2.1 Contribution to Brechtian Scholarship  2.2 Contribution to Adaptation Studies Scholarship  2.3 Contribution to Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today: Is Brecht Still Useful?  2.3.1 Utility of Gestus  2.3.2 Utility of Estrangement Effects and Historicizing  2.3.3 Utility of Fabel  2.3.4 Utility of Brecht’s Theory and Method of Adaptation  2.3.5 Utility of Theory-Praxis  3 Conclusion  4 In(conclusion) Index

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Anthony Squiers is a faculty member at AMDA College of the Performing Arts and co-editor of E-CIBS, the performance journal of the International Brecht Society. He is author of An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht.

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