{"product_id":"9783110181135","title":"Modern Restoration : The Discourses of Style in German Literature 1930-1960 (2004. X, 393 S.)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephen Parker \u003c\/em\u003eis Professor of German at the University of Manchester.\n \u003cem\u003ePeter Davies \u003c\/em\u003eis Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.\n \u003cem\u003eMatthew Philpotts \u003c\/em\u003eis Lecturer in German at the University of Manchester.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Es ist dem verdienstvollen Band, der in minutiöser Auseinandersetzung mit einem verschollenen Forschungsstrang erarbeitet wurde, zu wünschen, daß er eine dringend gebotene Neuverhandlung der Literaturgeschichte des mittleren 20. Jahrhunderts auch in der internationalen Germanistik auslöst, die den sozialhistorischen und medialen Besonderheiten dieser Phase verpflichtet bleibt.\"\n\u003cem\u003eGustav Frank\/Stefan Scherer in: IASL-online 2006 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ehttp:\/\/iasl.uni-muenchen.de\/rezensio\/liste\/FrankScherer.html\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Modern Restoration\u003c\/em\u003e offers a very valuable perspective on the micro- and macrodebates in this period of massive upheaval.\"\n\u003cem\u003eMark Elliott in: Modern Language Review 2\/2006\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Modern Restoration\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating investigation of selected journals and authors.\"\n\u003cem\u003eLynn M. Kutch in: German Studies Review 3\/2006\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a valuable contribution to discussions about the periodization of German literature.\"\n\u003cem\u003eStephen Brockmann in: German Quarterly 4\/2005\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48764043165931,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":622.6,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783110181135-1.jpg?v=1781718427","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783110181135","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}