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Ein neues Buch über Max Frisch, Brecht, Wilder, Hazelton, Li und das epische Theater
- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 23:23:04 -0400
- From: Peter Yang <pjy2 _at__ po.cwru.edu>
- Subject: Ein neues Buch über Max Frisch, Brecht, Wilder, Hazelton, Li und das epische Theater
Liebe BibliothekarInnen and Theaterfreunde:
Die folgende Nachricht könnte einige von Ihnen oder LeserInnen Ihrer
Bibliothek interessieren. Sie ist leider auf Englisch geschrieben.
A new book on Max Frisch, Bertolt Brecht, Thornton Wilder, etc. and the
Epic Theater is scheduled to appear in October 2000. The title of the
book is "Play is Play: Theatrical Illusion in Max Frisch's Chinese Wall
and 'Epic' Plays by Brecht, Wilder, Hazelton, and Li."
[Synopsis]
This book takes a close look at plays by Max Frisch and other
playwrights that critics commonly attribute to the "epic theater." It
sheds new light on the aesthetic dynamics of this theater.
As one of the closest disciples of Brecht and Wilder, Frisch created in
his "Chinese Wall" a play, in which the narrator and other characters
supposedly destroy dramatic illusions by means of their appeals to the
audience, their distance from other dramatic characters, and their
temporal manipulation of dramatic events.
This book reexamines classical examples of ?epic? plays to demonstrate
that the so-called ?epic? theater goes in fact far beyond being
narrative, historical, distancing, and alienating. Just as in plays by
other ?epic? dramatists, the dramatic illusion in Frisch's play is far
from being eliminated. Rather, it is intensified by an additional, yet
different kind of, gripping illusion, a ?theatrical illusion,? or an
illusory theatrical ?reality,? which involves the audience to the
highest extent and with which the audience can hardly refuse to
identify. The book concludes that the success of ?epic? plays results
from their characteristics as ?theatrical? plays with modern
multidimensional perspectives as opposed to neoclassic ?dramatic? ones
with a monolithic perspective.
[Order information]
If you or your library would like to order this book, please complete
the following order form (Please note: 1. If you pay by check, please
make the check payable to: University Press of America 2. You or your
library will not be charged until the book is shipped.)
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Author: Peter Yang
ISBN: 0-7618-1808-1
Publisher: University Press of America
Pages: 174
Price: $27.50 (20% discount for any prepublication order, the discounted
price is $22) plus postage and handling
Time of Publication: October 2000
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Sincerely,
Peter Yang
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