The Modern Restoration : Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960 PDF
by Stephen Parker, Peter Davies, Matthew Philpotts
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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.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:403 pages
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:17/04/2012
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- ISBN:9783110906127
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:403 pages
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:17/04/2012
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- ISBN:9783110906127