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The Modern Restoration: Re-Thinking German Literary History 1930-1960

The Modern Restoration: Re-Thinking German Literary History 1930-1960

Davies, Peter
Philpotts, Matthew
Parker, Stephen

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Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 3110181134
ISBN13: 9783110181135
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jul 26 2004
Pages: 403
Weight: 1.64
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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