German Literature of the Twentieth Century
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Aestheticism
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Brecht
Broch
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Dada movements
Decay
Doblin
East and West German literature
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Expressionist
German literature
Germany
Hesse
Kafka
Literary production
Modernism
Musil
Nazism
Post-Holocaust literature
Rilke
Thomas Mann
Twentieth century
Unification
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- ISBN 9781571131577
- Weight: 970g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2001
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Traces literary developments in the German-speaking countries from 1900 to the present.
This study of German literature in the past hundred years sets its subject clearly in the artistic and political context of developments in Western Europe during the century. It begins with the turn-of-the-century aestheticism andvisions of decay led by Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal and other Austrian writers, and the quite different explosion of new artistic energy in the Expressionist and Dada movements. These movements are succeeded by the rise of Modernism, culminating in the inter-war years: the poetry of Rilke, Brecht's epic theatre, and novels by Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil, Doblin and Broch; the influence of Nazism on literary production is considered. The study of developments after 1945 reflects the struggle to establish a post-Holocaust literature and to deal with the questions posed by the political division of Germany. Finally, the convergence of East and West German literature after unification is addressed.
Ingo R. Stoehr teaches literature at Kilgore College, Texas, and is editor of the bilingual journal of German literature in English translation, Dimension2.
INGO STOEHR teaches literature at Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas, and is the editor of the journal of German literature in English translation, Dimension2.
