The Modern Restoration

Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-3-11-018113-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 393 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 753 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Stephen

Philpotts, Matthew

Davies, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Parker is Professor of German at the University of Manchester.
Peter Davies is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.
Matthew Philpotts is Lecturer in German at the University of Manchester.