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Bertolt Brecht : a literary life / Stephen Parker
- Author
- Parker, Stephen (Stephen R.)
- Published
- London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 689 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Lyrical Awakening -- 1.The Brechts 1898--1903 -- 2.Church, School, Sickness 1903--12 -- 3.Precocity 1912--14 -- 4.The Heroism and the Madness of War 1914--16 -- 5.Bert Brecht and his Friends 1916--17 -- pt. 2 Dramatic Iconoclast -- 6.To be the Greatest Dramatist 1917--18 -- 7.The Medical Orderly and the Revolution 1918--19 -- 8.The `Lost' Brecht Sons 1919--21 -- 9.Brecht in Love 1921 -- 10.Cold Chicago 1921--2 -- 11.The Theatrical Genius 1922--4 -- 12.At the Watershed 1924--7 -- 13.Monumental Success 1927--8 -- pt. 3 Marxist Heretic -- 14.To be a True Comrade: Surviving the Storm as the Smallest Magnitude 1928--9 -- 15.Government by Emergency Decree 1929--31 -- 16.Solidarity with the Working Class 1931--3 -- 17.Into Exile from Nazi Germany 1933 -- 18.Svendborg 1933--4 -- 19.London, Moscow and New York: Stanislavsky's Pre-Eminence 1934--6 -- 20.Anti-Fascism and the Show Trials 1936--8 -- pt. 4 Chastened Survivor -- 21.Survival in an Age of Reaction 1938--9 -- 22.Flight Eastward to the West 1939--41 -- 23.Disgust 1941--2 -- 24.Ever the Enemy Alien 1942--5 -- pt. 5 Contentious Master -- 25.After the Dark Times - The Cold War 1945--7 -- 26.Hydratopyranthropos Surveys the Wreckage 1947--9 -- 27.The Quest for Acclaim: Issues of Authority 1949--51 -- 28.Leadership Struggles: Correcting the Heretic? 1951--3 -- 29.The New Age of the Theatre 1953--6.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781408155622 (hb)
1408155621 (hb)
9781408155646 (ePub)
9781408155639 (ePDF)a - Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. BIOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTING POLITCS IN BRECHT'S LIFE.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-661) and index.
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