Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 368 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781782046813
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Twenty-five years after the demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more scholarship being produced on all aspects of that country than ever. This is true also in the field of literary studies, but especially in English-language literary scholarship there has been a strong imbalance toward a focus on the last three decades of GDR literature. The literature of the earlier GDR has mostly been dismissed or ignored by scholars, as the discontinuities between the early and late GDR have been emphasized over the considerable continuities. This book seeks to redress that state of affairs, examining the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s. In doing so it applies to GDR literature the insight gained by scholars over the past few decades that the immediate postwar period was more complex, more meaningful, and more rewarding of study than it was long deemed to be. Far from all being mere propaganda or rote socialist realism, the literature of the early GDR has much to tell us about the budding socialist state, even as it goes far in explaining the developments in the later GDR. Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016)
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Introduction: reconstructing East German literature -- Part One: The absence of state (1945): In the zone, 1945 -- Part Two: Constructing the state (1949): Brecht and the battle of the spirits, 1949 -- German culture's will to power, 1949-50 -- Fascinating fascists, 1949-50 -- Part Three: Contesting the state (1953): Typical heroes, 1951-53 -- The danger of optimism, 1953 -- Part Four: The state cracks down (1956) -- The worst of times, 1956-58 -- Literature for adults, 1956-59
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-1-57113-953-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Deutschland
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Literatur
;
Geschichte 1945-1949
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Deutschland
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Literatur
;
Geschichte 1949-1959
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Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956
;
Geschichte 1945-1959
;
Seghers, Anna 1900-1983
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Geschichte 1945-1959
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Author information:
Brockmann, Stephen 1960-
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