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Record Nr.

UNINA9910135120203321

Autore

Bivens Hunter

Titolo

Epic and Exile : Novels of the German Popular Front, 1933-1945 / / Hunter Bivens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-8101-3149-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

FlashPoints

Disciplina

833.912099206914

Soggetti

German fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Anti-fascist movements in literature

Exiles' writings, German - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "A feeling for history" : the Popular Front novel -- Epic forms and the crisis of the novel -- After the revolution : Hans Marchwitza, The Kumiaks -- The tasks of emigration -- Place and plot : Anna Seghers, The seventh cross -- Ghostly solidarities : Eduard Claudius, Green olives and bare mountains -- Die deutsche Misere? : Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and her children -- Epilogue: the "immense window of change".

Sommario/riassunto

The antifascist exile beginning in 1933 led to a cooling among the émigrés of the artistic and literary modernist experiments of the Weimar Republic and to a return to realism and the traditional novel form.