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Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht : the story of a friendship /

"Erdmut Wizisla's groundbreaking work explores for the first time the important friendship between Walter Benjamin, the acclaimed critic and literary theorist, and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century's most influential theater artists, during the crucial interwar years in Ber...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wizisla, Erdmut, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Publisher's Note
  • Chronology of the Relationship
  • Map and time chart of Benjamin and Brecht
  • I: A Significant Constellation
  • May 1929
  • A Quarrel Among Friends
  • II: The Story of the Relationship
  • First Meeting, A Literary Trial, Dispute over Trotsky, 1924â€?29
  • Stimulating Conversations, Plans for Periodicals, 'Marxist Club', 1929â€?33
  • Exile, Detective Novel, Chess, 1933â€?40
  • III: 'Krise und Kritik'
  • Project for a Journal
  • Contributors
  • Topics: Crisis, Criticism, Method, Role of Intellectuals
  • Ambition and FailureIV: Benjamin on Brecht
  • Agreement
  • Laboratory of Versatility'
  • V: Brecht on Benjamin
  • 'Expert Opinions'
  • 'Useful to Read'
  • Four Epitaphs
  • Appendix: Documentation and Minutes of 'Krise und Kritik'
  • Endnotes
  • List of Abbreviated Titles and Sources
  • List of Works Cited
  • Acknowledgements and Permissions
  • Annotated Name Index
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  • Index of Works
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