Keith O'Regan

Towards a Productive Aesthetics

Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht

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Produktbeschreibung

This work is a comparative analysis of contemporary and historical interventions in the poetic and dramatic work of William Blake and Bertolt Brecht. Both authors explore how relations of domination shape lived experience under capitalism and mobilise literature as a form of resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9789004501843
• ISBN-10: 9004501843
• Artikelnr.: 62349037

Autorenporträt

Keith O'Regan, PhD (2017), teaches in the Writing and Humanities Departments of York University. His recent publications centre on comparative analyses of historical and contemporary film, and writing and graduate education.

Inhaltsangabe

A Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Brecht and the Now
 1  Mann ist Mann: The Right Question and the Precision of Time
 2  The Knowing Johanna
 3  Kuhle Wampe and the Good Answer
 4  Concluding Brecht to 1933
3 Blake, Opposition, and the Now
 1  Blake and Romanticism
 2  Expect Poison, Demand Movement
 3  Innocence’s Opposition to Experience
 4  Conclusion: The Future in the Present
4 Brecht, History and the Productive Past
 1  And the Cart Rolls On … Mutter Courage and Learning from Those Who
Don’t
 2  The Religion of the Now: Galileo and the Knowing Science
 3  The Chalk Lines of History: Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis, Productivity
and the Past
 4  Concluding the Historical Brecht
5 Blake, Milton, and Historical Redemption
 1  Blake Contra Newton
 2  The Importance of What Is Missing
 3  Filling in That Which Is Missing
 4  Milton’s Entrance
 5  Blake Labouring in History
 6  Brecht, Blake and the Uses of History
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index