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The Modern Restoration
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Literary Journals
- Literary Journals at 1930
- Literary Journals 1933–1945
- Post-1945 Literary Journals
- Part Two: Authors
- Gottfried Benn
- Johannes R. Becher
- Bertolt Brecht
- Günter Eich
- Peter Huchel
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index