Brecht Bertolt - Alienation and theatricality: Diderot after Brecht

First published 20101

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FOR YAIR

Thanks are first owed to my PhD supervisors, Marian Hobson and Michael Newman, who accompanied the research that led to this book. I am profoundly grateful to Marian Hobson for her thought-provoking feedback and support throughout my PhD and during the revisions for this book. I feel extremely lucky to have enjoyed discussions with a scholar whose books and articles originally awoke my interest in Diderot, texts which continue to provide a firm guideline for approaching a difficult thinker who resists all categorization. Michael Newmans equally inspiring supervision taught me to think globally yet rigorously about the issues involved in this study, beyond the boundaries of discipline, language and culture, historical classi fication and a practice and theory divide. I also wish to thank Elinor Shaffer for her excellent feedback at the start of my revisions, which enabled me to rethink familiar PhD questions in fresh terms.