Brecht''s Poetry of Political Exile

Klappentext In this volume, contributors analyse Brecht's Svendborg Poems critically and historically. Zusammenfassung Bertolt Brecht was one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century and a poet of distinction. In this volume! contributors analyse Brecht's Svendborg Poems critically and historically! discussing it in relation to questions of poetics! political commitment! exile! and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Svendborg 1938 David Midgley; 2. The usefulness of poetry David Constantine; 3. 'Visit to a banished poet': Brecht's Svendborg Poems and the voices of exile Tom Kuhn; 4. Exile in 'Danish Siberia': the Soviet Union in the Svendborg Poems Katharine Hodgson; 5. Strength and clarity: Brecht, Auden and the 'true Democratic style' Tony Davies; 6. Satire as propaganda: Brecht's 'Deutsche Satieren' for Deutscher Freiheitssender Michael Minden; 7. The fourth door: difficulties with the truth in the Svendborg Poems Joyce Crick; 8. The uses of rhetoric in Brecht's Svendborg Poems Anna Carrdus; 9. Assuaging the anxiety of influence: poetic authority and power in the Svendborg Poems Elizabeth Boa; 10. Figures of memory in the 'Chroniken' Anthony Phelan; 11. The poet in time Ronald Speirs; 12. Those born later than Brecht: the reception of 'An die Nachgeborenen' Karen Leeder; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Ronald Speirs, Ronald (University of Birmingham) Speirs
• Assisted by: Ronald Speirs (Editor), Speirs Ronald (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521154437
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15443-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Cambridge Studies in German; Cambridge Studies in German
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets