<p>In this book Darko Suvin discerns the shape of an emerging post-Individualist drama which may be to our age what the theatre of Shakespeare and Ibsen was to theirs. Suvin establishes the principles of composition of a crucial group of modern plays.He examines some major attempts and failures to replace Ibsen's "Individualist" theatre with this new "Collectivist" drama. Two particularly important and original contributions to the subject are Suvin's chapters on the Happenings in the USA and on the Paris Commune Theatre Law. The book focuses on the work of Brecht, both because of the importance of his plays and because of what Professor Suvin sees as Brecht's central position today in any cultural critique that refuses to despair.</p>

To Brecht and Beyond: Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy (Contemporary Literature & Culture)

Darko Suvin

Literature & Fiction

Harvester P

This volume captures reflections of twelve years of visiting and thinking about Japan by a scholar from Canada who describes himself as fascinated latecomer and bricoleur. Japan gives the western writer the indispensable distance for see himself. But this is a book about Japan looked at from both the outside and the inside. The experience produces discoveries about both the west and the east.  Published in cooperation with the Inter-University Centre for Discourse Analysis and Sociocriticism of Texts, Montreal, Canada.

Lessons of Japan: Assayings of Some Intercultural Stances (PostModernPositions series)

History & Criticism

Maisonneuve Press

<p>Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin’s Language brings together the first English translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin’s revolutionary language. The book includes the Russian Formalists’ (Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yuri Tynyanov, Boris Tomashevsky, Lev Yakubinsky, and Boris Kazansky) most ‘political’ texts, first published in 1924 in the journal of the Left Front of the Arts (edited by Mayakovsky). Together with this collection, the publication also includes Futurist poet Alexei Kruchenykh’s Devices of Lenin’s Speech, from 1925. Indispensable for any serious research dealing with the relationship between revolutionary politics and artistic forms, these writings had remained a marginal note, both in studies on avant-garde art, and in much literature on Formalist theory.\nThe publication is edited by Sezgin Boynik, who wrote an extensive introduction to the translations by contextualising the experiments of the Russian avant-garde through theories of conjuncture, or more precisely, the theory of contemporaneity within the revolutionary moment. Darko Suvin in his afterword discusses the actuality (and limits) of Lenin and Formalists in the shadow of never-ending warfare.\nWith this book, Rab-Rab Press is proud to present the first English translation of the most interesting project of political Formalism and avant-garde theory in the twentieth century.\nTranslated by Thomas Campbell and Mikko Viljanen, the book is designed by Ott Kagovere.</p>

Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin's Language

Sezgin Boynik

Viktor Shklovsky

Lev Yakubinsky

Aleksei Kruchenykh

Boris Eikhenbaum

Boris Kazansky

Boris Tomashevsky

Yuri Tynyanov

Rab-Rab Press

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