Heidi Zojer; John Klapper; Ruth Whittle; William J Dodd; Christine Eckhard-Black Taylor & Francis Ltd (2011) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Ruth Whittle; John Klapper; Katharina Glöckel; Bill Dodd; Christine Eckhard-Black Taylor & Francis Ltd (2011) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Ruth Whittle; John Klapper; Katharina Glöckel; Bill Dodd; Christine Eckhard-Black Taylor & Francis Ltd (2011) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
Boydell and Brewer Sivumäärä: 464 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2019, 01.03.2019 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Studies of literary responses to National Socialism between 1933 and 1945 have largely focused on exiled writers; opposition within Germany and Austria is less well understood. Yetin both countries there were writers who continued to publish imaginative literature that did not conform to Nazi precepts: the authors of the so-called Inner Emigration. They withdrew from the regime and sought to express theirnonconformity through camouflaged texts designed to offer sensitized readers encouragement, reassurance, and consolation. This book provides a critical, historically informed reassessment of these writers. It is innovative inscope, in its use of little-known sources, in placing authors and texts in a detailed social and political context, and in analyzing seminal topoi and tropes of oppositional discourse. One of the most extensive studies of the topic in German or English, it provides a state-of-the-art text for literary historians, scholars, and students of German literature, but also, thanks to its accessibility and translation of all material, serves as an introduction for English-speaking readers to this poorly understood group of writers. Two contextualizing chapters are followed by chapters devoted to Werner Bergengruen, Stefan Andres, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Gertrud von le Fort, Reinhold Schneider, Ernst Jünger, Ernst Wiechert, and Erika Mitterer.
JOHN KLAPPER is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.