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Record W2293273998 · doi:10.1111/glal.12114

BRECHT AND GREEK TRAGEDY: RE‐THINKING THE DIALECTICS OF UTILISING THE TRADITION OF THEATRE

2016· article· en· W2293273998 on OpenAlexaff
Martin Revermann

Bibliographic record

VenueGerman Life and Letters · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersArts and Humanities Research Council
KeywordsTragedy (event)Greek tragedyDialecticLiteraturePhilosophyPoeticsArtHumanitiesTheologyPoetry

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Brecht's interactions with Greek tragedy are central and illuminating indicators of his self‐positioning relative to the Western theatre tradition that preceded him. Part of the appeal to Brecht is the status of Greek tragedy as a particularly prominent manifestation of Tragedy, a cultural universal with a distinct set of ideological assumptions (political, social, religious and philosophical) that Brecht opposed vigorously. Brecht's relationship with Greek tragedy, and Tragedy, is both dialogical and dialectical: he needed Greek theatre, both its theatrical product tragedy and the theorising that came with it in the form of Aristotle's Poetics , as vehicles for opposition. As a result, Brecht's reception of Greek tragedy is (characteristically) utilitarian. This article examines various key aspects of this relationship: Brecht's educational background and predisposition towards Graeco‐Roman antiquity; his points of contact with Greek tragedy; the use of the mask, a fundamental device of the ancient theatre, in Brecht's work; his ambivalent response to tragic situations and suffering as exemplified in Helene Weigel's ‘silent scream’ as Mother Courage; and the important methodological distinction between ‘genealogical’ and ‘functional’ equivalence. I conclude by setting out why this topic is an important part of any project which attempts to ‘re‐think Brecht’. Brechts Auseinandersetzungen mit der griechischen Tragödie sind zentrale und erhellende Indizien seiner Selbstpositionierung gegenüber der vorausgehenden westlichen Theatertradition. Ein Teil der Anziehungskraft kommt vom Status der griechischen Tragödie als einer besonders bekannten und ungewöhnlich exponierten Form von Tragödie im allgemeinen Sinn, d. h. einer universalen Kulturform mit einer Anzahl von speziellen ideologischen Annahmen (politisch, sozial, religiös und philosophisch), zu denen Brecht in völliger Opposition stand. Brechts Verhältnis zur griechischen Tragödie, und zur Tragödie im allgemeinen, ist dialogisch und dialektisch zugleich. Er benötigte das griechische Theater, sowohl dessen Produkt Tragödie als auch dessen Theorie in Form der aristotelischen Poetik , als Vehikel und Anlass zum Widerspruch. Infolgedessen ist Brechts Rezeption der griechischen Tragödie, wie nicht anders zu erwarten, utilitaristisch. Der Aufsatz untersucht folgende Aspekte des Themas: Brechts Bildungshintergrund und seine Grundeinstellung zur griechisch‐römischen Antike; seine Berührungspunkte mit der griechischen Tragödie; den brechtschen Gebrauch der Maske, eines fundamentalen Bühnenmittels im antiken Theater; seine ambivalente Reaktion auf tragische Situationen und das daraus entstehende Leid, wie es am Beispiel des ‘stillen Schreis’ von Helene Weigel als Mutter Courage besonders deutlich hervortritt; und die wichtige methodische Unterscheidung zwischen ‘genealogischer’ und ‘funktionaler’ Äquivalenz. Im Schlussteil lege ich dar, warum dieses Thema ein wichtiger Bestandteil jeden Projektes sein muss, das sich ein ‘Neu‐Denken von Brecht’ zum Ziel setzt.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.063

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.091
Scholarly communication0.0130.012
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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