This book seeks to move twentiethcentury German literary history away from its stubbornly 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 19301960 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 literaryhistorical periodisations can shed light on the common cultural and aesthetic ground shared by writers, editors and critics across the ideological divides of the era.

Binding: Hardcover;406 pages; Publisher: De Gruyter; Classification: DSB; Weight: 815 g; Dimensions: 230 x 155

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