Bertolt Brecht in America

Informationen zum Autor James K. Lyon Klappentext This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Zusammenfassung This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer! a playwright determined to conquer Broadway! a political commentator and activist! a social observer! and an exile in an alien land. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product details

• Authors: James K. Lyon, J K Lyon, James Lyon, Lyon James K.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.07.2014
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780691613734
• ISBN: 978-0-691-61373-4
• Pages: 440
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library > 657; Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bertolt Brecht, George Grosz, Kurt Weill, Carl Zuckmayer, Heinrich Mann, Max Reinhardt, Arthur Koestler, Hanns Eisler, Adolf, Erich Maria Remarque, Mein Kampf, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Bruno Frank, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, german, Roland Barthes, Gustav Freytag, King Lear, Counter-Reformation, Fritz Kortner, Erwin Piscator, Orson Welles, United Artists, The American Scene, Stefan Brecht, Charles Laughton, Sinclair Lewis, W. H. Auden, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, American Literature, American poetry, German art, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Playwright, Karl August Wittfogel, Theodore Dreiser, League of American Writers, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Earl Browder, Clifford Odets, America Alone, The Congressman, Epic theatre, John Howard Lawson, The American Political Tradition, Martin Esslin, Samuel Ornitz, William Saroyan, The Germans, Albert Maltz, Sam Wanamaker, Larry Parks, Edward Dmytryk, Dalton Trumbo, Joseph Losey, Donald Ogden Stewart, The Great Ziegfeld, Charles Boyer, A New Germany, Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, Waldo Salt, Marc Blitzstein, Oskar Homolka, George Froeschel, Gordon Kahn, Nazi Agent, Jack Warner (actor), American Movie, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Cornel Wilde, Harold Clurman, Gerald L. K. Smith