Bertolt Brecht : centenary essays / edited by Steve Giles and Rodney Livingstone.

Includes bibliographical references.

Bertolt Brecht and notions of collaboration / Tom Kuhn -- The many face of B.B. in fiction and memoir : from Fleisser and Feuchtwanger to Canetti and Weiss / Julian Preece -- 'Der strenge und der schwärmende Ton' : notes on Bloch and Brecht in the twenties and thirties / Christina Ujima -- Marxist aesthetics and cultural modernity in Der Dreigroschenprozess / Steve Giles -- Brecht's Me-ti : a question of attitude / Rodney Livingstone -- A new poetry for the big city : Brecht's behavioural experiments in Aus dem Lesebuch für Städtebewohner / Florian Vassen -- Brecht and semiotics : semiotics and Brecht / John J. White -- The meaning of the circle in Brecht's theatre / Freddie Rokem -- Comic reduction and comic negation in Brecht / Mark W. Roche -- Limits of reason : an exploration of Brecht's concept of Vernunft and the discourse of science in Leben des Galilei / Anne Moss -- The suppressed science of society in Leben des Galilei / Terry Holmes -- B. Brecht and A. Seghers : utopian additions to the critique of the Gotha programme / Jürgen Thomaneck -- Brecht, SED cultural policy and the issue of authority in the arts : the stuggle for control Of the German Academy of Arts / Peter Davies and Stephen Parker -- Relations of productions? Christa Wolf's extended engagement with the legacy of Bertolt Brecht / Renate Rechtien -- Brecht : an aesthetics of conviction? / Astrid Herhoffer -- Is there a use-value? Brecht on the American stage at the turn of the century / Carl Weber -- 'Dragging' Brecht's gestus onwards : a feminist challenge / Meg Mumford.