LEADER 04038nam 22005291 450 001 9910818301503321 005 20170628150732.0 010 $a1-5013-2814-X 010 $a1-5013-2812-3 010 $a1-5013-2813-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501328145 035 $a(CKB)4100000001042113 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5017664 035 $a(OCoLC)1007868347 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09261347 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001042113 100 $a20171115d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBuilding socialism $earchitecture and urbanism in East German literature, 1955-1973 /$fCurtis Swope 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 0 $aNew directions in German studies ; vol. 19 311 $a1-5013-5177-X 311 $a1-5013-2811-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- I: Framing East Germany: Marxism, Architecture, and Literature Introduction. 1. Socialist Writers and Modern Architecture -- II. Architecture, Theater, and the Early Years of the Scientific-Technological Revolution ; 2. Confronting the Construction Site: Heiner Mu?ller from Operativity to Metaphor ; 3. Towards a Bourgeois Architecture: Helmut Baierl's Frau Flinz and the Space of the Class Enemy -- III. Artchitecture and Modernity in the Prose of the 1960s ; 4. Time at Home: The Domestic Interior in Gu?nter de Bruyn, Irmtraud Morgner, Brigitte Reimann, Christa Wolf, and Gerhard Wolf ; 5. Literary Responses to East German Urbanism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture to a mid-century modernist literature in dialogue with multiple literary and left-wing theoretical traditions and in tune with international assessments of modernist architecture and urban planning. Design and construction were a central part of politics and everyday life in East Germany during this time as buildings old and new were asked to bear heavy ideological and social burdens. In their novels, stories, and plays, Heiner Mu?ller, Christa Wolf, Gu?nter Kunert, Volker Braun, Gu?nter de Bruyn, and Brigitte Reimann responded to enormous new factory complexes, experimental new towns, the demolition of Berlin's tenements, and the propagation of a pared-down modernist aesthetic in interior design. Writers' representation of the design, construction, and use of architecture formed part of a turn to modernist literary devices, including montage, metaphor, and shifting narrative perspectives. East Germany's literary architecture also represents a sophisticated theoretical reflection on the intractable problems of East Germany's socialist modernity, including the alliance between state socialism and technological modernization, competing commitments to working-class self-organization and the power of specialist planners and designers, and the attempt to create an alternative to fascism."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aNew directions in German studies ;$vVolume 19. 606 $aArchitecture and literature 606 $aGerman literature$zGermany (East)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSocialism and literature$zGermany (East) 606 $2Theory of architecture 615 0$aArchitecture and literature. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSocialism and literature 676 $a830.9/9431 700 $aSwope$b Curtis$01707836 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818301503321 996 $aBuilding socialism$94096329 997 $aUNINA