Modern German Literature 1st Edition by Michael Minden ISBN 0745629199 9780745629193

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ISBN 10: 0745629199 
ISBN 13: 9780745629193
Author: Michael Minden

This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies.

Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century, the book plays down conventional labels and periodisation of German literary history in favour of the explanatory force of international cultural impact. It explains, for instance, how specifically German and Austrian conditions shaped major contributions to European literary culture such as Romanticism and the ‘language scepticism’ of the early twentieth century.

From the First World War until reunification in 1990, Germany’s defining experiences have been ones of catastrophe. The book provides a compelling overview of the different ways in which German literature responded to historical disaster. They are, first, Modernism (the ‘Literature of Negation’), second, the literature of totalitarian regimes (Third Reich and German Democratic Republic), and third the various creative strategies and evasions of the capitalist democratic multi-medial cultures of the Weimar and Federal Republics.

The volume achieves a balance between textual analysis and cultural theory that gives it value as an introductory reference source and as an original study and as such will be essential reading for students and scholars alike.

Modern German Literature 1st Table of contents:

1: A European German Literature
Enlightenment identities
The virtue of sexuality
The German idea of literature
A German Shakespeare
Greece comes to Germany
Casualties of Idealism
Infinity for all
The consolation of philosophy
Irony
Spilt religion
What Germans really read
Spirit in the age of modern literature
2: Poetry and Politics
The classical inheritance in the modern world
German realism
An affirmative literature
The German literature myth and what Germans really read
The Novelle
Problematic affirmative literature
Overture to the future
3: Imperial Modernity
The revolution that never was
The social question
The German claim to art
Literature on the ground
The world of publicity
The marketing of exclusivity
German art meets advertising
Publicity as a creative force
Language becomes self-conscious
Literature and technology
4: The Literature of Negation
The Great War
Fort/Dada
The broken subject
Fascist negation
Negation in the dialectic
Negation and the Holocaust
The lyric of negation
5: The Fate of Affirmative Literature
The Third Reich
The German Democratic Republic
6: Literature in Democratic Capitalism
From Erlebnis to Erfahrung
Old literature adapts to the new world
Testimony, market, society
Exile
The economic miracle
Medial hybridity
Conclusion: The End of the Age

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