German expressionism and the Messianism of a generation / Lisa Marie Anderson.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 150
• Author: Anderson, Lisa Marie.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 150.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that s...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Notes on the Text
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction - Expressionism as a “Literature of Redemption”
• Jewish Messianism and the Philosophy of the Expressionist Era
• The Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish Messianism in Expressionist Literature
• The ‘Judeo-Christian’ Dialectic in the Expressionist Era
• Birth and Rebirth in Christianity and Expressionism
• The Mission and Passion of Expressionist Messianism
• The Culmination of Expressionist Messianism: Apocalypse
• Expressionism as Literature of the Unredeemed
• Bibliography
• Index.