LEADER 04108nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910457054403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-25041-1 010 $a9786613250414 010 $a94-012-0051-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401200516 035 $a(CKB)2550000000046095 035 $a(OCoLC)759160471 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496803 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000645949 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12287484 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000645949 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10684686 035 $a(PQKB)10280587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008281 035 $a(OCoLC)759160471$z(OCoLC)751701105$z(OCoLC)808092481$z(OCoLC)816861092$z(OCoLC)828690380$z(OCoLC)842600554$z(OCoLC)923622031$z(OCoLC)961517612$z(OCoLC)962700804 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401200516 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3008281 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496803 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL325041 035 $a(OCoLC)923622031 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000046095 100 $a20110906d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGerman expressionism and the Messianism of a generation$b[electronic resource] /$fLisa Marie Anderson 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (206 p.) 225 1 $aInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft,$x0929-6999 ;$v150 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a90-420-3352-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Notes on the Text -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Expressionism as a ?Literature of Redemption? -- Jewish Messianism and the Philosophy of the Expressionist Era -- The Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish Messianism in Expressionist Literature -- The ?Judeo-Christian? Dialectic in the Expressionist Era -- Birth and Rebirth in Christianity and Expressionism -- The Mission and Passion of Expressionist Messianism -- The Culmination of Expressionist Messianism: Apocalypse -- Expressionism as Literature of the Unredeemed -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that strain is traced through the work of four important Expressionist playwrights: Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller and Franz Werfel. Moreover, these dramatists are brought into new and sustained dialogues with the theorists and philosophers of messianism who were their contemporaries: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem. In arguing, for example, that concepts like Bloch?s utopian self-encounter ( Selbstbegegnung ) and Benjamin?s messianic now-time ( Jetztzeit ) reappear as the framework for Expressionism?s staging of collective redemption in a new age, Anderson forges a previously underappreciated link in the study of Central European thought in the early twentieth century. 410 0$aInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;$v150. 606 $aGerman drama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExpressionism in literature 606 $aMessianism in literature 606 $aNational socialism and literature$zGermany 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGerman drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExpressionism in literature. 615 0$aMessianism in literature. 615 0$aNational socialism and literature 676 $a832/.91209115 700 $aAnderson$b Lisa Marie$0877963 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457054403321 996 $aGerman expressionism and the Messianism of a generation$91960152 997 $aUNINA