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"In Towards a Productive Aesthetics, Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O'Regan mobilises a constellative approach to compare the political-aesthetic strategies of William Blake (1757-1827) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). O'Regan traces two similar tr...
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| Published: |
Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Historical materialism book series,
volume 241 |
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| Summary: |
"In Towards a Productive Aesthetics, Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O'Regan mobilises a constellative approach to compare the political-aesthetic strategies of William Blake (1757-1827) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). O'Regan traces two similar trajectories in each author's work: an exploration of how capitalist domination defines conjunctures, and an investigation of how historical figures, themes and terrains illustrate past failures or losses that can be cleaved open for radical possibilities in the present. Brecht and Blake posit an "oppositional aesthetics of the now" that articulates a theory of experience under capitalism, while counter-posing an oppositional form of existence"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 238 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-227) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004501843 9004501843 |
| Index Number: | PN51 |
| CLC: |
I516.065 I561.072 |
| Call Number: | I561.072/O661 |
| Contents: | Brecht and the now -- Blake, opposition, and the now -- Brecht, history and the productive past -- Blake, Milton, and historical redemption. |