Essays on German Theater (German Library)

Bys: Marx, Wagner, Bertolt Brecht

Book Overview

It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be seen and appreciated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826402968
• ISBN13: 9780826402967
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.8"