{"product_id":"all-theater-is-revolutionary-theater-hardcover","title":"All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Theater Is Revolutionary Theater\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to consider why, in the Western tradition (and only in the Western tradition), theatrical drama is regarded as its own literary or poetic type, when the criteria needed to differentiate drama from other forms of writing do not resemble the criteria by which types of prose or verse are ordinarily distinguished. Through close readings of such playwrights as Beckett, Brecht, Büchner, Eliot, Shaw, Wedekind, and Robert Wilson, Benjamin Bennett looks at the relationship between literature and drama, identifying typical problems in the development of dramatic literature and exploring how the uncomfortable association with theatrical performance affects the operation of drama in literary history.Bennett's historical investigations into theoretical works ranging from Aristotle to Artaud, Brecht, and Diderot suggest that the attempt to include drama in the system of Western literature causes certain specific incongruities that, in his view, have the salutary effect of preserving the otherwise endangered possibility of a truly liberal, progressive, or revolutionary literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Bennett is Kenan Professor of German at the University of Virginia. His many books include \u003ci\u003eTheater As Problem: Modern Drama and Its Place in Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Theory: Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony\u003c\/i\u003e (both from Cornell), and \u003ci\u003eGoethe as Woman: The Undoing of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. His first book, \u003ci\u003eModern Drama and German Classicism: Renaissance from Lessing to Brecht\u003c\/i\u003e (also from Cornell), won the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 241\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.34 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 21, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336823161081,"sku":"9780801443091","price":129.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/e83t-B7peZ9780801443091.webp?v=1769671313","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/all-theater-is-revolutionary-theater-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}