Bertolt Brecht's Adaptations and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today /

Bertolt Brecht's Adaptations and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today /

This book examines Brecht's theory and method of adaptation. It first reconstructs it into a single framework using four key Brechtian concepts: Fabel, gestus, estrangement effects, and historicizing. It then uses that framework to analyse four Brechtian adaptations: The Tutor , Don Juan , &quo...

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Main Author: Squiers, Anthony (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; 61.
Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956.
Literature > Adaptations.

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • 1   Why Brecht and Why His Adaptations?
  •  1 Introduction
  •  2 A Vexing Quirk in Brechtian Scholarship and the Weaponization of Art-Philosophy
  •  3 A Lost Revolution
  •  4 Weaponization
  •  5 Objectives, Research Question, and Contribution
  •  6 Overview of Book
  • 2   Brecht's Theory and Method of Adaptation
  •  1 Brecht's Politics
  •  2 Marxism's Impact on Brecht's Work
  •  3 Marxism's Impact on Brecht's Biography
  •  4 Problems with the Bourgeois Theatrical Heritage
  •  5 Brecht on the Bourgeois Ideology
  •  6 Making Conscious Experience Possible
  •  7 Conscious Experience and the Classics
  •  8 The Fabel and Gestus
  •  8.1  Gestus
  •  8.2  Social Gestus
  •  8.3  Gestus in Text
  •  8.4  The Fabel and Adaptation
  •  9 Adaptation and Estrangement Effects
  •  10 Historicizing and Intertextual Discourse
  •  10.1  Historicizing
  •  10.2  Intertextual Discourse
  •  11 Praxis and Experimentation
  •  11.1  Praxis
  •  11.2  Experimentation
  •  12 Summary
  • 3   Freedom and Alienation in Brecht's  The Tutor
  •  1 Introduction
  •  2 Synopsis of Lenz's The Tutor
  •  2.1  Act  i 
  •  2.2  Act  ii 
  •  2.3  Act  iii 
  •  2.4  Act  iv 
  •  2.5  Act  v 
  •  3 Interpretive Summary of Brecht's The Tutor
  •  3.1  Prologue
  •  3.2  Act  1 
  •  3.3  Act 2
  •  3.4  Act 3
  •  3.5  Interlude
  •  3.6  Act 4
  •  3.7  Act 5
  •  3.8  Epilogue
  •  4 Summary
  • 4   Conquest and Magical Thinking in Brecht's  Don Juan
  •  1 Introduction
  •  1.1  A Transferable Method
  •  1.2  Chapter Overview
  •  2 Summary of Molière's Don Juan
  •  2.1  Act  i 
  •  2.2  Act  ii 
  •  2.3  Act  iii 
  •  2.4  Act  iv 
  •  2.5  Act  v 
  •  3 Interpretive Summary of Brecht's Don Juan
  •  3.1  Act  i 
  •  3.2  Act  ii 
  •  3.3  Act  iii 
  •  3.4  Act  iv 
  •  4 Summary
  • 5   Courage and Action in Brecht's "Socrates Wounded"
  •  1 Introduction
  •  2 Summary of Plato's Socrates at Delium
  •  2.1  The Unity of the Virtues and Courage as Wisdom
  •  2.2  Courage in the Laches
  •  2.3  Courage in the Apology
  •  3 Interpretive Summary of "Socrates Wounded"
  •  4 Summary
  • 6   War and Capitalism in Brecht's  Kriegsfibel
  •  1 Introduction
  •  1.1  The Photos and Layout of the  Kriegsfibel
  •  1.2  Epigrams in the  Kriegsfibel
  •  2 Fabel in the Kriegsfibel
  •  3 Estrangement in the Kriegsfibel
  •  3.1  Cutting and Pasting as Estrangement
  •  3.2  Estrangement in the Text-Pictorial Interface
  •  3.2.1 The Verbal and the Visual
  •  3.2.2 Elevated Poetic Diction and Prosaic Imagery
  •  3.3  Estrangement through Visual Flow
  •  4 Gestus in the Kriegsfibel
  •  5 Kriegsfibel Analysis
  •  5.1  Non-linear Narrative Structure
  •  5.2  Ideological Underpinnings
  •  5.2.1 Photo-Epigram 28 and the Gestus of Being Mesmerised
  •  5.2.2 Photo-Epigram 51 and the Gestus of Being Blind
  •  5.2.3 Photo-Epigram 8 and the Gestus of Keeping an Eye Out
  •  5.2.4 Photo-Epigram 33 and the Gestus of Going up in Smoke
  •  5.2.5 Photo-Epigram 15 and the Gestus of Fear
  •  5.3  Material Interests
  •  5.3.1 Photo-Epigram 5 and the Gestus of Shooting the Bird
  •  5.3.2 Photo-Epigrams 37 and the Gestus of Lusting After
  •  5.3.3 Photo-Epigram 44 and the Gestus of Remembering the Dead
  •  5.4  What Happens Next?
  •  5.4.1 Photo-Epigrams 58 & 64 and the Gestus of Hanging Your Head in Defeat
  •  5.4.2 Photo-Epigram 69 and the Gestus of Fascism
  •  5.4.3 The Gestus of Learning and Historicizing
  •  6 Summary
  • 7   Brecht's Theory and Method of Adaptation and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today
  •  1 Summary
  •  2 Making Brecht Whole
  •  2.1  Contribution to Brechtian Scholarship
  •  2.2  Contribution to Adaptation Studies Scholarship
  •  2.3  Contribution to Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today: Is Brecht Still Useful?
  •  2.3.1 Utility of Gestus
  •  2.3.2 Utility of Estrangement Effects and Historicizing
  •  2.3.3 Utility of Fabel
  •  2.3.4 Utility of Brecht's Theory and Method of Adaptation
  •  2.3.5 Utility of Theory-Praxis
  •  3 Conclusion
  •  4 In(conclusion)
  • Index.