Category Archives: 2. BRECHT-DRAMA-THEATRE
Introductory to Mother Courage and Her Children, for Brighton University UK (Feb. 2024, 2,000 words)
Prometheus and the Long Hope (2023, 14,500 words)
FOR A THEORY OF THEATRE: THE PERFORMANCE TEXT AS AUDIENCE-STAGE DIALOG INDUCING A POSSIBLE WORLD (1985 & 2021, 8,700 words)
0. Some Presuppositions; 1. Bakhtinian Dialog and Theatre; 2. On PWs, on Subordinating Communication to Pragmatics, and again on Dialog; 3. The Audience-Stage Dialog as Induction of PWs;
MY BRECHT: A LOOK FROM 2016 (7,000 words)
Communications of Int’l Brecht Soc. online edition no. 1, 2017. https://e-cibs.org/issue-1-2017/#suvinstart This overview of DS’s work on Brecht (further BB) was written as Introduction to a collection of my essays translated into Slovene and published in Ljubljana 2016 as Brecht’s … Continue reading
ON BRECHT’S “THE MANIFESTO”: COMMENTS FOR READERS IN ENGLISH (2015, 9,100 words)
Part 1 is the translation by D. Suvin of a putative poem by Brecht Das Manifest (The Manifesto) pieced together from his various versions from 1944 on. Part 2 is a comment article that discusses Brecht’s intention in 1944-45 to … Continue reading
EMOTION, BRECHT, EMPATHY VS. SYMPATHY (2008, 7,650 words)
Darko Suvin … Continue reading
BRECHT AND SUBJECTIVITY: STANCE, EMOTION AS SYMPATHY (1989-2006, 9,570 words) [from book DARKO SUVIN: A LIFE IN LETTERS]
CONFLICT, CONFLICT ÜBER ALLES?: CONFLICT VS. REVELATION AS STAGE POETICS AND PARADIGMS (1994-2003, 9,400 words)
1. Doubting the Eternal Necessity of Conflict; 2. On Zeami’s mugen nô (Deity Nô) Plays;
BRECHT: STANCE, AGENCY, AND EMOTIONS (1989-2002, 15,810 words)
1. On Haltung; 2. Approaching Brecht and Agency; 3. Emotions Are Not Split from Cognition; 4. Emotions Intertwining with Haltung as Basis for Acting