Leydecker German Novelists of the Weimar Republic

Intersections of Literature and Politics
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-57113-671-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 84, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leydecker, Karl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Murdoch, Brian

Midgley, David

Sutton, Fiona

Valencia, Heather

Chambers, Helen

Williams, Jenny

Gunnemann, Karin

Leydecker, Karl

Guthke, Karl S.

Bishop, Paul

Woods, Roger

Dollinger, Roland

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Karl Leydecker
Heinrich Mann and the Struggle for Democracy - Karin Verena Gunnemann
Hermann Hesse and the Weimar Republic - Paul Bishop
In Defense of Reason and Justice: Lion Feuchtwanger's Historical Novels of the Weimar Republic - Roland Dollinger
The Case of Jakob Wasserman Social, Legal, and Personal Crises in the Weimar Republic - Karl Leydecker
Signs of the Times: Joseph Roth's Weimar Journalism - Helen Chambers
Ernst Jünger, the New Nationalists, and the Memory of the First World War - Roger Woods
Innocent Killing: Erich Maria Remarque and the Weimar Anti-War Novels - Brian O. Murdoch
In "A Far-Off Land": B. Traven - Karl S. Guthke
Weimar's Forgotten Cassandra: The Writings of Gabriele Tergit in the Weimar Republic - Fiona Sutton
Radical Realism and Historical Fantasy: Alfred Döblin - David Midgley
Vicki Baum: "A First-Rate Second-Rate Writer"? - Heather Valencia
Hans Fallada's Literary Breakthrough: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben and Kleiner Mann -- was nun? - Jenny Williams

Über Autor(innen)

Murdoch Brian:
BRIAN MURDOCH is Emeritus Professor of German at Stirling University, Scotland. He is the author of many books, including titles for both Camden House and D.S. Brewer.Chambers Helen:
HELEN CHAMBERS is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of St Andrews, UK.Bishop Paul:
Paul Bishop is Professor of German and Head of Department of German at the University of Glasgow.