A Poet's Reich - Politics and Culture in the George Circle

The effects of the George Circle on early-twentieth-century intellectual and political life in Germany.

List of contents

Introduction - Melissa S. Lane and Martin A. Ruehl
The George Circle: From Künstlergesellschaft to Lebensgemeinschaft - Ute Oelmann
Stefan George's Homoerotic Erlösungsreligion, 1891-1907 - Adam Bisno
The Secret Germany of Gertrud Kantorowicz - Robert Lerner
The Poet as Idol: Friedrich Gundolf on Rilke and Poetic Leadership - Ruediger Goerner
Kingdom of the Spirit: The Secret Germany in Stefan George's Later Poems - Ray Ockenden
The Absentee Prophet: Public Perceptions of George's Poetry in the Weimar Period - David Midgley
The Platonic Politics of the George Circle: A Reconsideration - Melissa S. Lane
Political Economy as Geisteswissenschaft: Edgar Salin and Other Economists around George - Bertram Schefold
"Imperium transcendat hominem": Reich and Rulership in Ernst Kantorowicz's Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite - Martin A. Ruehl
Third Reich and Third Europe: Stefan George's Imperial Mythologies in Context - Richard Faber
From Secret Germany to Nazi Germany: The Politics of Art before and after 1933 - Robert E. Norton
The George Circle and National Socialism - Peter Hoffmann
Stauffenberg: The Search for a Motive - Thomas Karlauf
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Summary

A re-examination of the George Circle in the cultural and political contexts of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa S. Lane, Dr. Martin A. Ruehl
• Assisted by: Melissa S Lane (Editor), Melissa S. Lane (Editor), Melissa S. (Royalty Account) Lane (Editor), Martin A Ruehl (Editor), Martin A. Ruehl (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781571134622
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-462-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 770 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Deutsch, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism, European - German