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Set Texts & Bibliography

Set Texts:

Walter Benjamin, 'Was ist das epische Theater', 'Der Autor als Produzent' (copies provided)

Bertolt Brecht, Schriften zum Theater (extracts, copies provided)

Bertolt Brecht, Die Massnahme, Zwei Fassungen, Frankfurt/M., Suhrkamp 2014 (edition suhrkamp 2058).

Bertolt Brecht, Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe, Frankfurt/M., Suhrkamp, 1962 (edition suhrkamp 113)

Bertolt Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, Frankfurt/M., Suhrkamp 1963 (edition suhrkamp 49)

Students are required to acquire copies of the above named editions of Die Massnahme, Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe and Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder.

Indicative Bibliography:

Rob Burns (ed.), German Cultural Studies. An Introduction, Oxford 1995.

Peter Brooker, Bertolt Brecht : dialectics, poetry, politics, London, 1988.

Martin Esslin, Brecht, a choice of evils : a critical study of the man, his work and his opinions, London, 1980.

Peter Thomson, & Glendyr Sacks, The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, Cambridge, 2006.

Darko Suvin, To Brecht and Beyond, Brighton, 1984.