Modern Restoration

The Discourses of Style in German Literature 1930-1960

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Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783110181135
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: X, 393 S.
Einband: Leinen

Beschreibung

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.

Autorenportrait

Stephen Parker is Professor of German at the University of Manchester. Peter Davies is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh. Matthew Philpotts is Lecturer in German at the University of Manchester.