Secret Germany : Myth in Twentieth-Century German Culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jesi, Furio.

Contributor:

Braude, Richard.

Series:

The Italian List Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Seagull Books, 2021.

Summary:

An analysis of how a political myth is taken and treatedas a metaphor that reflectshow a country like Germanybuilt its own destiny. In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into everyday life, the secularization of myth and the mythologization of history. In this book, Furio Jesi takes up the term in order to trace the contours of that political, artistic, and aesthetic thread as it runs through German literary and artistic culture in the period-which, in the 1930s, became absorbed by Nazism as part of its prophecy of a triumphant future. Drawing on thinkers like Carl Jung and writers such as Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke, Jesi reveals a literary genre that was transformed, tragically, into a potent political myth.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780857425133

0857425137

OCLC:

1431977231