German Literature of the Twentieth Century - From Aestheticism to Postmodernism

List of contents

The First Decade of the Twentieth Century: Aestheticism - Impressionism and Symbolism
The 1910s: The First Phase of Avant-Garde Literature - Expressionism and Dada
The 1920s: High Modernism and the Second Phase of the Avante-Garde - Surrealistic Elements and New Objectivity
The Literary Continuum: From Anti-Modern to Modernist Voices
The National Socialist Literary Canon: The Uneasy Voice of Reactionary Traditions
Modernist Literature: The Many Voices of Defiance
1945-1949: The Immediate Postwar Years - Defining Different Traditions in East and West
The 1950s: Modernism or Formalism - Nonconformist Literature in the West vs. Socialist Realism in the East
The 1960s: Change in Literary Awareness - Politicization in the West and Emancipation of Subjectivity in the East
The 1970s: Increasing Plurality - New Sensitivity in the West and Continuing Emancipation in the East
The 1980s: New Confusions - Resurgence of Storytelling and Converging Literatures in East and West
The 1990s: A New Order of Things - German Issues and Global Themes in German-Language Literature
Works Consulted

About the author

Ingo R. Stoehr

Product details

• Authors: Ingo Stoehr, Ingo R Stoehr, Ingo R. Stoehr
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2001
• EAN: 9781571131577
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-157-7
• No. of pages: 543
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 1061 g
• Series: Camden House History of German
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Deutsch, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism