從－“鄉”情願到共“鄉”盛舉：《高加索灰闌記》中家鄉與土地之理念
Journal
東吳外語學報
Journal Issue
27
Pages
203-219
Date Issued
2008
Author(s)
Abstract
In the Drama Der kaukasische Kreidekreis Brecht tries to show his perception of homeland and earth. He believes that for approaching the socialistic values, the individual subjectivity, personal and ethnic identification and dependence on the romantic realization of homeland and earth should be abandoned. The only policy of moderation bases mainly on the identification with the society and the country. In this drama Brecht does not criticize the conventional understanding of homeland or land directly. But since he reconstructs a new idea of homeland and earth, the traditional myth of homeland and earth, at the same time, is in question. Actually the ideology behind the myth is dubious. According to Brecht the practical development of land and the living standard should replace the myth and its historical ideology. It seems that Brecht designs another myth of homeland and earth in this drama. This project tries to criticize Brecht's appeal to socialistic economic efficiency not only from the point of Brecht's time, but also from the perspective of the current understanding. Today Brecht's idea of the overdevelopment of earth can be understood as destroying the environment and the nature. In this drama, the way to protect the land is actually replaced by the way of damaging it.
Type
journal article