Hermynia Zur Muhlen - The Guises of Socialist Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Ailsa Wallace was awarded her D.Phil for her doctorate on Hermynia Zur Mühlen from Jesus College Oxford in 2006. Prior to this she completed her Masters dissertation on the exile works of German-speaking women writers Irmgard Keun, Alice Rühle-Gerstel and Adrienne Thomas. She has published on Mädchenliteratur and her further research interests include Märchen, crime fiction and exile literature. Klappentext The first book to look at the life and works of Hermynia Zur Mühlen examines her prose fiction against the backdrop of her life and the turbulent times - the Weimar Republic and exile from the Third Reich. Zur Mühlen saw literature primarily as a political tool and used popular forms of literature to convey her ideas to a wide audience. Zusammenfassung The first book to look at the life and works of Hermynia Zur Mühlen examines her prose fiction against the backdrop of her life and the turbulent times - the Weimar Republic and exile from the Third Reich. Zur Mühlen saw literature primarily as a political tool and used popular forms of literature to convey her ideas to a wide audience.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• I


• 1: Introduction


• 2: 'Die Pflicht eines Schriftstellers, es ihnen zu sagen!'


• 3: Happily ever after . . . ?


• 4: Murder in the Weimar Republic


• 5: Socialist Literature for Girls


• 6: Ende und Anfang (1929)


• II


• 7: Early Exile Novels


• 8: Later Exile Novels


• 9: Conclusion


• Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Ailsa Wallace
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780199572113
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957211-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Language and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form