LEADER 03829nam 22005175 450 001 9910149428403321 005 20230515055009.0 010 $a1-4426-5376-0 010 $a1-4426-3826-5 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442653764 035 $a(CKB)3710000000929685 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730352 035 $a(DE-B1597)479319 035 $a(OCoLC)992544474 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442653764 035 $a(OCoLC)1124459253 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107541 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000929685 100 $a20170607d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aGerman Expressionist Prose $eTheory and Practice /$fAugustinus Dierick 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2017] 210 4$d©1987 215 $a1 online resource (341 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aHeritage 311 $a1-4426-3988-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $tPart One: Fundamental Problems -- $tOne. Introduction: Aims and Methods -- $tTwo. From Crisis to Expression -- $tThree. Expressionism and the Modern World -- $tFour. Art and Society -- $tPart Two: Themes of Expressionist Prose -- $tFive. Ecce Homo -- $tSix. Problems of Integration -- $tSeven. Problems of Autonomy -- $tEight. Autistic Worlds -- $tNine. Eros in Extremis -- $tTen. God and the Search for Utopia -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAn extreme sensitivity to gathering social crisis, an accompanying angry enthusiasm for artistic experimentation and renewal - this compelling mix in German art, poetry, and drama of the period 1910 to 1925 continues to draw both scholarly attention and intense popular interest. In this book Augustinus Dierick focuses on another significant but hitherto neglected medium of German Expressionist thought - short narrative prose - in order to illuminate and evaluate the contribution of that genre to one of the twentieth century's most powerful artistic movements. Dierick's study includes a thorough analysis of the works of a broad range of Expressionist prose writers, from those of such specialists in the genre as Edschmid, Heym, Benn, Loerke, Frank, Sternheim, Ehrenstein, and 'Mynona' to the shorter prose works of such major figures as Alfred Döblin, Heinrich Mann, Max Brod, and Franz Werfel. Dierick isolates the thematic obsessions common among Expressionist writers: the pathos of the self in confrontation with nature and with God, the tension between self and the institutions of bourgeois society, and the attractions and dangers of eroticism. Throughout Dierick stresses the interrelationship between themes and their formal expression. He examines many apparent excesses in style and tone, many aberrations in structure and generic characteristics, and identifies them not as needless experimentation but as a necessary result of the attempt to find appropriate forms for extreme situations and complex ideas. Dierick's analysis makes clear that Expressionist prose has an intrinsic artistic value and, because of certain nuances and different accents, must be included in any estimation of the nature and importance of Expressionism as a whole. 606 $aGerman prose literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExpressionism 607 $aDeutsch$2swd 615 0$aGerman prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExpressionism. 676 $a838/.9108/091 700 $aDierick$b Augustinus.$0885273 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149428403321 996 $aGerman Expressionist Prose$91976608 997 $aUNINA