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Book SynopsisThe leading publication on Brecht, his work, and topics of interest to him; this annual volume documents the International Brecht Society's 2016 symposium, "Recycling Brecht."Published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the
Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context. It includes a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, and, like Brecht himself, is committed to the concept of the use value of literature, theater, and theory. Volume42 features a selection of the papers given and protocols of the events held at the International Brecht Society's "Recycling Brecht" symposium at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, in June 2016. The theme of recycling is understood bothas a description of Brecht's own creative practice and as an activity applied to his works by others. The volume includes keynote papers by Hans-Thies Lehmann and Amal Allana on Brecht's reception of
Antigone and on the reception and recycling of Brecht in India, respectively. Other papers are on a wide range of topics, from Brecht's own "recycling" of Shakespeare and others, through the reception of his own works in a range of contexts and by later writers, to contemporary works that may be understood as post-Brechtian. The final section, introduced by an extended interview with American playwright Tony Kushner, documents additional creative responses to the theme.Volume co-editors Tom Kuhn and David Barnett are, respectively, Professor of Twentieth-Century German Literature at the University of Oxford and Professor of Theatre at the University of York. Managing Editor Theodore F. Rippey is Associate Professor of German at Bowling Green State University.
Table of ContentsRECYCLING BRECHT: PAPERS FROM THE FIFTEENTH SYMPOSIUM OF THE INTERNATIONAL BRECHT SOCIETY Brecht Translating / Translating Brecht - Hans-Thies Lehmann Inherent Estrangement: Brecht's Reading of Shakespeare's Tragedies - Astrid Oesmann Recycling Brecht: The Contemporary Reception of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Steve Giles Ludic Philosophy in Brecht's Drama and Prose - Alice Koubová The Castrated Schoolmaster: Brecht, The Tutor, and Lenz - Nikolaus Müller-Schöll "Altes wird aufgerollt": Paul Dessau's Posthumous Collaborations with Brecht - Martin Brady and Carola Nielinger-Vakil Walking the Dead: George Tabori's Reframing of Bertolt Brecht's "The Jewish Wife" - Martin Kagel Released into the Future: (Re) Claiming Brecht in India - Amal Allana East Meets East: Recycling Brecht in India - Prateek Recycling Brecht in Britain: David Greig's The Events as Post-Brechtian Lehrstück - Anja Hartl A Future for the Lehrstück? Andres Veiel and Gesina Schmidt's Der Kick and the Recycling of Form - Michael Wood The I-Doc and Brecht: 18 Days in Egypt - Nenad Jovanovic RECYCLING BRECHT: CREATIVE RESPONSES Constructing the Fabel: Tony Kushner in conversation with Tom Kuhn - Tom Kuhn Brechts Bestie: Umwege und Irrwege der Kunst, die Wirklichkeit zu erfassen oder Erzählen als Diskurs. Fragen zu einer offenen Dialektik des Ästhetischen - Hans Martin Ritter A Model Family in a Model Home or a Tale of Fictitious Capital - Zoe Beloff Violence & Learning: Scenario 2 - John Hartl and Henrik Bromander A Translator's Perspective on Die Geschäfte des Herrn Julius Caesar - Charles Osborne BOOK REVIEWS
