The Modern Restoration : : Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960 / / Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts, Peter Davies.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Literary and Cultural Studies 2000 - 2014
• VerfasserIn: Parker, Stephen,; Davies, Peter,; Philpotts, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

i-iv -- 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