The Modern Restoration: Re-Thinking German Literary History 1930-1960

by Peter Davies, Matthew Philpotts, Stephen R. Parker

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110181134
• ISBN13: 9783110181135
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary