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Modern German literature /
This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies. Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century, the book plays down conventional...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cultural history of literature.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011275501-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011275501-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011275501-d.html |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : cultural history of literature
- A European German literature
- Poetry and politics
- Imperial modernity
- The literature of negation
- The fate of affirmative literature
- Literature in democratic capitalism
- Conclusion : the end of an age.