Modern Restoration Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960

This book moves twentieth-century German literary history away from its persistent reliance on the political turningpoints 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, Gunter Eich, and Peter Huchel. Combining these two approaches, the authors show that a fresh perspective that challenges established literary-historical periodizations can shed light on the common cultural and aesthetic ground shared by writers, editors, and critics across the ideological divides of the era.Parker, Stephen is the author of 'Modern Restoration Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960', published 2004 under ISBN 9783110181135 and ISBN 3110181134.