German Exile Biofiction : The Metaphorical Art of Intellectual Activism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lackey, Michael, author.

Series:

Biofiction Studies.

Biofiction Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biographical fiction, German--History and criticism.

Biographical fiction, German.

Exiles' writings, German--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, German.

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

German fiction.

German literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

German literature.

Politics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Argues that after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers fictionalized and metaphorized the lives of real people in order to provide readers with rigorous forms of critical analysis to identify root causes of political oppression.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I

II

Part One: Historical Evolution of a Literary Form

1 The Concurrent Rise of Psychology and Biofiction: The Case of Friedrich Nietzsche

III

IV

V

2 Frederick the Great : Thomas Mann on the Political Function of the Biofictional Symbol

Part Two: Political Biofiction and the Nazis' War of Religion

3 Miguel de Cervantes's Critique of the Nazis' Christian Nationalism: Bruno Frank's A Man Called Cervantes

4 Zora Neale Hurston and Thomas Mann: Moses Biofictions as Political Interventions

VI

5 Bertolt Brecht on the Cunning Truths of Biofiction

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-37496-1

979-82-16-37494-7

979-82-16-37495-4

OCLC:

1586548837