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Essays on German Theater: Lessing, Brecht, Durrenmatt, and Others

Essays on German Theater: Lessing, Brecht, Durrenmatt, and Others

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Series: German Library, Book 83

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ISBN10: 0826402976
ISBN13: 9780826402974
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Nov 1 1985
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.93
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.16
Language: English

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.

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