{"product_id":"modern-restoration","title":"Modern Restoration","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57333011874136,"sku":"9783110181135","price":250.48,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110181135_7028b13a-a48d-4eb1-a040-2b92cbc632e8.jpg?v=1780038027","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/modern-restoration","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}