Bertolt Brecht's Furcht Und Elend Des Iii. Reiches and the Moscow 'Realism' Controversy. White, J. J. Modern Language Review, 100(1):138--160, January, 2005.
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This article offers a detailed analysis of individual scenes in "Furcht und Elend des III: Reiches," by German playwright Bertolt Brecht, considered in the context of the critical debates about Realism conducted in the exile journals "DasWort," and "Internationale Literatur." This was a time when the main issue in Das Wort was the question of what forms of realism were legitimate in the current fight against Fascism, rather than the original, ostensibly retrospective polemic against questionable forms of experimentalism in German Expressionism and early modernism. Brecht' theoretical writings dialect is seldom associated with linguistic mimesis of the kind one finds in Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," and "Die Weber." In "Uber die Theatralik des Faschismus," written in 1939, Brecht applies the contrast between Aristotelian and Epic Theatre to the behaviour of Adolf Hitler and his audiences. Brecht's "echter Realismus', which was broadly enough conceived to embrace both montage and "Verfremdung."
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  title = {Bertolt {Brecht}'s {Furcht} {Und} {Elend} {Des} {Iii}. {Reiches} and the {Moscow} '{Realism}' {Controversy}},
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  issn = {00267937},
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  abstract = {This article offers a detailed analysis of individual scenes in "Furcht und Elend des III: Reiches," by German playwright Bertolt Brecht, considered in the context of the critical debates about Realism conducted in the exile journals "DasWort," and "Internationale Literatur." This was a time when the main issue in Das Wort was the question of what forms of realism were legitimate in the current fight against Fascism, rather than the original, ostensibly retrospective polemic against questionable forms of experimentalism in German Expressionism and early modernism. Brecht' theoretical writings dialect is seldom associated with linguistic mimesis of the kind one finds in Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," and "Die Weber." In "Uber die Theatralik des Faschismus," written in 1939, Brecht applies the contrast between Aristotelian and Epic Theatre to the behaviour of Adolf Hitler and his audiences. Brecht's "echter Realismus', which was broadly enough conceived to embrace both montage and "Verfremdung."},
  number = {1},
  urldate = {2015-09-25TZ},
  journal = {Modern Language Review},
  author = {White, John J.},
  month = {January},
  year = {2005},
  keywords = {BRECHT, Bertolt, 1898-1956, DRAMATISTS, FASCISM, MIMESIS, MODERNISM (Christian theology), REALISM},
  pages = {138--160}
}

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