Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile
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- Editor: Ronald Speirs, University of Birmingham
- Date Published: December 2000
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521782159
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Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. This volume is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. The contributors analyze Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later German poets.
Read more- At the time of publication, this was the only specialist study of the Svendborg Poems
- The study addresses a wide range of interests: political, historical, poetical
- Poems analysed are provided in English and German
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"Careful scholarship, thoughtful analysis, and new insights distinguish these essays individually. But what separates this from similar collections is the degree to which contributors foreshadow, echo, support, and deny assertions of their cocontributors. Their intimate understanding of Brecht and his Svendborg poems is apparent in the very process of collaboration. I hope this model inspires future scholarship." German Studies Review
See more reviews"...the primary value is in an introduction to Brecht's poetry as a whole for non-German-speaking students and as a point of departure for re-examining the tensions of poetry and politics in the twentieth century." The Brecht Yearbook
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- Date Published: December 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521782159
- length: 270 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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