Title: Re: Readings needed on Marxist analyses of
Theater
Here is a
new book that seems exceptional.
Glasbeek,
Harry. Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the
Perversion of Democracy. (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002). ISBN:
1-896357-41-5
I teach a senior seminar on
Brecht - is usually cited in these discussions. I contend that he is
problematic.
The whole notion of 'alienating' your audience is profoundly illogical
to me.
His personal behaviour at various points - strikes me as momentously
less than socialist. Noticeably his grovel to that McCarthy committee.
Georg Luckacs also has some more theoretical but valuable points to make
about the ontology of drama and the novel in his "Historical Novel." I
think it amounts to one introductory chapter.
Joanna
At 03:09 PM 10/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Steve Cohn wrote:
I teach a senior seminar on paradigm d
Steve Cohn wrote:
I teach a senior seminar on paradigm debates in economics and have a student
who is a double major in theater and econ who wants to do a paper on
Marxist analyses of theater. Can anyone suggest accessible things he could
read? Ideally they would illustrate the power of historic
