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Luk�cs and Brecht

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ISBN-10: 0807865818

ISBN-13: 9780807865811

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Pike

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Description:

David Pike traces the evolution of interrelated political and literary theoretical currents in the Soviet Union from the early 1930s to the late 1940s and places the writings of Georg Lukacs and Bertolt Brecht within that context. Lukacs' ideas are examined in order to define the derivative nature of his political stance and to ascertain its influence upon the formation of his aesthetic. Pike then explores the cause of Brecht's clash with German and Soviet Stalinists over their decreed aesthetic principles before dealing with his political outlook and its correspondence with standard Soviet assumptions. The link between the two men lies in their practice of viewing reality through the prism…    
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Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.132
Language: English