The Modern Restoration : : Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960 / / Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts, Peter Davies.
This book seeks to move twentieth-century German literary history away from its stubbornly persistent reliance on the political turning-points of 1933 and 1945. In the first part of the book, the authors analyze a synchronic corpus of literary journals, identifying a restorative aesthetic mood in th...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Literary and Cultural Studies 2000 - 2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Other title: | i-iv -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Literary Journals -- Literary Journals at 1930 -- Literary Journals 1933–1945 -- Post-1945 Literary Journals -- Part Two: Authors -- Gottfried Benn -- Johannes R. Becher -- Bertolt Brecht -- Günter Eich -- Peter Huchel -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | This book seeks to move twentieth-century German literary history away from its stubbornly persistent reliance on the political turning-points of 1933 and 1945. In the first part of the book, the authors analyze a synchronic corpus of literary journals, identifying a restorative aesthetic mood in the years 1930-1960 which persists across political date boundaries. In the second part, the careers of five writers are considered diachronically against this prevailing restorative climate: Gottfried Benn, Johannes R. Becher, Bertolt Brecht, Günter Eich, and Peter Huchel. Combining these two approaches, the authors show that a fresh perspective that challenges established literary-historical periodisations can shed light on the common cultural and aesthetic ground shared by writers, editors and critics across the ideological divides of the era. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110906127 9783110637854 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110906127 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts, Peter Davies. |