Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Svendborg 1938 David Midgley; 2. The usefulness of poetry David Constantine; 3. 'Visit to a banished poet': Brecht's Svendborg Poems and the voices of exile Tom Kuhn; 4. Exile in 'Danish Siberia': the Soviet Union in the Svendborg Poems Katharine Hodgson; 5. Strength and clarity: Brecht, Auden and the 'true Democratic style' Tony Davies; 6. Satire as propaganda: Brecht's 'Deutsche Satieren' for Deutscher Freiheitssender Michael Minden; 7. The fourth door: difficulties with the truth in the Svendborg Poems Joyce Crick; 8. The uses of rhetoric in Brecht's Svendborg Poems Anna Carrdus; 9. Assuaging the anxiety of influence: poetic authority and power in the Svendborg Poems Elizabeth Boa; 10. Figures of memory in the 'Chroniken' Anthony Phelan; 11. The poet in time Ronald Speirs; 12. Those born later than Brecht: the reception of 'An die Nachgeborenen' Karen Leeder; Bibliography.