Dear all,
We are very pleased to be able to announce the following publication
which constitutes the final output of our AHRB-funded project:
Stephen Parker, Peter Davies, Matthew Philpotts,
The Modern Restoration: Re-thinking German literary history 1930-
1960 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004), 393pp.
ISBN: 3110181134
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
analyse 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.
Contents:
Part One: Literary Journals
Literary Journals at 1930:
(Die Kolonne, Die Linkskurve, Die literarische Welt)
Literary Journals 1933-1945:
(Das innere Reich, Mass und Wert, Das Wort)
Post-1945 Literary Journals:
(Der Ruf, Merkur, Sinn und Form, Aufbau)
Part Two: Authors
Gottfried Benn
Johannes R Becher
Bertolt Brecht
Gunter Eich
Peter Huchel
Given the nature of the material, we hope the book will be of
interest to a wide range of colleagues.
Best wishes
Stephen Parker, Peter Davies, Matthew Philpotts
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Dr Peter Davies
Zentrum für Literaturforschung
Jägerstr.10/11
10117 Berlin
Germany
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