Flight of Fantasy : : New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945 / / ed. by Neil H. Donahue, Doris Kirchner.

During the Nazi era many German writers chose, or were forced into, exile. Many others stayed and, after the end of this period, claimed to have retreated into "Inner Emigration". The nature of this kind of emigration and the underlying motives of these writers have been hotly debated to t...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION: “Coming to Terms” with the German Past
  • The Past of the Term
  • Chapter 1. INNER EMIGRATION
  • Foundational Essays
  • Chapter 2. IN THE THICKET OF INNER EMIGRATION
  • Chapter 3. THE YOUNG GENERATION’S NON-NATIONAL SOCIALIST LITERATURE DURING THE THIRD REICH
  • New Perspectives: Synoptic Studies
  • Chapter 4. CULTURE AS SIMULATION
  • Chapter 5. TARGETING THE READER, ENTERING HISTORY
  • Chapter 6. ABSENCES OF TIME AND HISTORY
  • Chapter 7. DEPICTIONS OF THE STATE IN WORKS OF THE INNER EMIGRATION
  • Chapter 8. THE LIMITS ON LITERARY LIFE IN THE THIRD REICH
  • New Perspectives: Case Studies
  • Chapter 9. OPPOSITION OR OPPORTUNISM?
  • Chapter 10. CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION
  • Chapter 11. LUISE RINSER’S ESCAPE INTO INNER EMIGRATION
  • Chapter 12. SURVIVAL WITHOUT COMPROMISE?
  • Chapter 13. EXILE HONORIS CAUSA
  • Chapter 14. GÜNTHER WEISENBORN’S BALLAD OF HIS LIFE
  • Chapter 15. BETWEEN APOCALYPSE AND ARCADIA
  • Chapter 16. “I MOUNTED RESISTANCE, THOUGH I HID THE FACT”
  • Chapter 17. ELISABETH LANGGÄSSER AND THE QUESTION OF INNER EMIGRATION
  • The Turn Inward Outside of Literature
  • History
  • Chapter 18. THE UNSETTLING HISTORY OF GERMAN HISTORIANS IN THE THIRD REICH
  • Film
  • Chapter 19. STATE OF THE ART AS ART OF THE NAZI STATE
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX