Author : Ronald Speirs
Release : 2000-11-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 159/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile by : Ronald Speirs
Download or read book Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile written by Ronald Speirs. This book was released on 2000-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 analyse 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 Germany poets.