Brecht and Method - Hardcover

Jameson, Fredric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859848095 ISBN 13: 9781859848098

Publisher: Verso Books, 1998

Synopsis

An analysis of the connections between Brecht's drama and politics. The author argues that Brecht's method was a multi-layered process of reflection and self-reflection, reference and self-reference, which allows individuals to situate themselves historically, to think about themselves in the third person, and to use that self-projection in history as a basis for judgement. Emphasizing the themes of separation, distance, multiplicity, choice and contradiction in Brecht's entire corpus, Jameson's study engages in a dialogue with a cryptic work, unpublished in Brecht's lifetime, entitled "Me-ti; Book of Twists and Turns". This text is seen by Jameson as key to understanding Brecht's critical reflections on dialectics and his orientally informed fascination with flow and flux, change and the non-eternal.

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Review:

"Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... it can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to him."--Colin MacCabe"The most muscular of writers."--"Times Literary Supplement"

About the Author:

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including "Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," "The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity," "The Modernist Papers," "Archaeologies of the Future," "Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, ""Valences of the Dialectic," "The Hegel Variations" and "Representing Capital."

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1859848095
• ISBN 13: 9781859848098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192