Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

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Format: 1 online resource (403p.)

ISBN: 9783110906127

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Foreword -- , Abbreviations -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Part One: Literary Journals -- , Literary Journals at 1930 -- , Literary Journals 1933–1945 -- , Post-1945 Literary Journals -- , Part Two: Authors -- , Gottfried Benn -- , Johannes R. Becher -- , Bertolt Brecht -- , Günter Eich -- , Peter Huchel -- , Conclusion -- , Select Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-180039-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-018113-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110906127

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110906127