The Modern Restoration : Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960 / Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts, Peter Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Stephen, Author.

Davies, Peter, Author.

Philpotts, Matthew, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--20th century--Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

i-iv

Foreword

Abbreviations

Contents

Introduction

Literary Journals at 1930

Literary Journals 1933–1945

Post-1945 Literary Journals

Gottfried Benn

Johannes R. Becher

Bertolt Brecht

Günter Eich

Peter Huchel

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-380) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

ISBN:

9783110906127

3110906120

OCLC:

979762980