{"product_id":"representation-and-reception-9781433148507","title":"Representation and Reception","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRepresentation and Reception: Brechtian Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht's theory of drama and performance, what he calls the pedagogics of theatre, to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom. Extrapolating on Brecht's estranged forms of representationnarrative, story, montage, \u003cem\u003eVerfremdüngseffeckt\u003c\/em\u003e or alienation, tableaux, ostension (showing), gestus, masks and musicBurney constructs an original 3-R Pedagogy or spiral of semiosisRethinking\/Replaying\/Re-cognitionthat is designed to create critical thinking and complex seeing. Her dramatic production of Brecht's \u003cem\u003eLehrstück\u003c\/em\u003e, or learning-play, \u003cem\u003eThe Exception and the Rule,\u003c\/em\u003e for a non-literate, working-class audience in Hyderabad, India, critically analyses how audiences make meaning through image, word and ideology, gesture, memory, collective experience and personal \u003cbr\u003e(hi)stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments – Introduction: The Poetics and Politics of Representation and Reception – Bertolt Brecht’s “Pedagogics of Theatre”: Image, Ideology, and Meaning – A Theatre with Footnotes: Diacritics and Referentiality\/Witnessing and Learning – “The Pregnant Moment”: Ideality, Gestus, and Tableau as Learning – Theatre as Metaphor of the Street: Brecht in the Basthi Across the Seas – Rethinking\/Replaying\/Re-cognition: My 3-R Pedagogy for Critical Thinking – Afterword: The Possibility of Critical Thinking: Bringing the World to the Classroom – About the Author – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039625052503,"sku":"9781433148507","price":33.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433148507.jpg?v=1750944295","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/representation-and-reception-9781433148507","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}