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Modern Restoration - The Discourses of Style in German Literature 1930-1960

English · Hardback

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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.

About the author

Nach seinem Studium der Zoologie arbeitete Steve Parker am London's Natural History Museum. Später zog es ihn in die Verlagswelt und er war Lektor bei Dorling Kindersley und Haymarket Publishers. Seit einigen Jahren arbeitet er als freier Schriftsteller und hat schon über 200 Sachbücher, insbesondere über Dinosaurier, für verschiedene Verlage, Fernsehsender (BBC) und Organisationen (WWF) geschrieben

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"Es ist dem verdienstvollen Band, der in minutiöser Auseinandersetzung mit einem verschollenen Forschungsstrang erarbeitet wurde, zu wünschen, daß er eine dringend gebotene Neuverhandlung der Literaturgeschichte des mittleren 20.Jahrhunderts auch in der internationalen Germanistik auslöst, die den sozialhistorischen und medialen Besonderheiten dieser Phase verpflichtet bleibt."Gustav Frank/Stefan Scherer in: IASL-online 2006 "The Modern Restoration offers a very valuable perspective on the micro- and macrodebates in this period of massive upheaval."Mark Elliott in: Modern Language Review 2/2006 "The Modern Restoration is a fascinating investigation of selected journals and authors."Lynn M. Kutch in: German Studies Review 3/2006 "This book is a valuable contribution to discussions about the periodization of German literature."Stephen Brockmann in: German Quarterly 4/2005

Product details

Authors Pete Davies, Peter Davies, Stephe Parker, Stephen Parker, Steve Parker, Matthew Philpotts
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2004
 
EAN 9783110181135
ISBN 978-3-11-018113-5
No. of pages 393
Dimensions 155 mm x 31 mm x 230 mm
Weight 692 g
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies

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