Poetry of Brecht
«No serious student of Brecht's poetry can afford to miss this book, an intelligent, commonsensical approach to the lyrics based on an application of reader response theory (Rezeptionsasthetik) to selected poems throughout Brecht's life." - The Journal of English and Germanic Philology»
Though not a survey of Bertolt Brecht's poetry, this book covers the major periods in his work and most of its major themes as well. Each of the seven chapters deals with a segment from Brecht's considerably poetic opus. Les mer
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Thomson's methodology is pluralist, although he includes a discussion of how reader-response theory can be harnessed to the task of interpreting Brecht's poetry. Various means of interpretation and analysis are used, depending on which seems to yield the most information and insight. The only reading of Brecht's poetry categorically refused is the one that accepts it at face value as a record of Brecht's life experience. Despite outward appearances, Brecht is a devious writer, and nowhere more so than in his poetry, where he most immediately presents himself to his public.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781469656847
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«No serious student of Brecht's poetry can afford to miss this book, an intelligent, commonsensical approach to the lyrics based on an application of reader response theory (Rezeptionsasthetik) to selected poems throughout Brecht's life." - The Journal of English and Germanic Philology»