Brecht and the Bible A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City
This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely satirical, the author interprets the full dramatic function of Brecht's complex use of scripture. Us...
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
1980
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| Seri Bilgileri: | UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
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