The Silence of Entropy or Universal Discourse: The Postmodernist Poetics of Heiner Mueller

by Arlene Akiko Teraoka and Volkmar Sander

This study delineates the fundamental principles of Heiner M ller's revolutionary poetic project and, in detailed analyses of three recent plays, shows how these strategies are realized in specific discursive structures of his texts. Heiner M ller, arguably the most important German playwright since Brecht, is seen to undermine both bourgeois and orthodox socialist models of drama, history, and revolution, and to create a new dramatic discourse of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820401900
• ISBN13: 9780820401904
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 240 Pages