Empedocles' Shoe: Essays on Brecht's Poetry.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Empedocles' Shoe: Essays on Brecht's Poetry. Ed. by TOM KUHN and KAREN LEEDER. London: Methuen. 2002. 20 [euro]. ISBN 0-413-75730-7 (hbk).

Originating in a seminar held at Oxford in 1998 to mark the centenary of Brecht's birth, this collection can be read as a companion to Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile, ed. by Ronald Speirs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) (reviewed in MLR, 97 (2002), 500-01).

Tom Kuhn's introduction emphasizes the worldly, occasional, directly communicative nature...

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