Brecht and Method
Published on 17. May 2000
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Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-85984-249-2 (ISBN)
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"In his analysis of Brecht, Jameson forgoes the sort of chronological representation of Brecht in his various 'stages' (the early Brecht, the political Brecht, the mature Brecht) that characterizes most analyses of his work and instead asks that we recognize the various layers of history, overlapping in time, not space, which ultimately constitute who we understand as 'Brecht.'"-The Bookpress
"Jameson puts demands on the reader, requiring great effort just to keep up, but those who apply themselves will come away with new admiration for Brecht as artist and as thinker. Recommended."-Choice
"It is a rich book, one that strikes out in many different directions at once ... perhaps the secret of Jameson's greatness, like Brecht's, is that he doesn't adhere to his method too strictly."-In These Times
"This book contains a highly recommendable, elegant dissection of Brecht's method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond."-Modern Drama
"Jameson puts demands on the reader, requiring great effort just to keep up, but those who apply themselves will come away with new admiration for Brecht as artist and as thinker. Recommended."-Choice
"It is a rich book, one that strikes out in many different directions at once ... perhaps the secret of Jameson's greatness, like Brecht's, is that he doesn't adhere to his method too strictly."-In These Times
"This book contains a highly recommendable, elegant dissection of Brecht's method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond."-Modern Drama
Reviews / Votes
Frederic Jameson elegantly dissects the intricate connections between Brecht's drama and politics, demonstrating the way these combined to shape a unique and powerful influence on a profoundly troubled epoch. Through Brecht's entire corpus and a cryptic work unpublished in Brecht's lifetime, entitled Me-ti; Book of Twists and Turns, Jameson finds Brecht not prescriptive but performative. He sees Brecht's method as a multi-layered process of reflection, reference and self-reference, which tears open a gap for individuals to situate themselves in the third person, and to use that self-projection in history as a basis for judgement.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85984-249-2 (9781859842492)
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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.