The Modern Restoration - Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960 (Hardcover)

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, Gunter 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.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	July 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Stephen Parker • Peter Davies • Matthew Philpotts
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	403
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-018113-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	3-11-018113-4
Barcode:	9783110181135

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