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- Epic and Exile: Novels of the German Popular Front, 1933-1945
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: FlashPoints
summary
The antifascist exile beginning in 1933 led to a cooling among the émigrés of the artistic and literary modernist experiments of the Weimar Republic and to a return to realism and the traditional novel form. Epic and Exile examines the Popular Front– oriented cultural initiatives of the 1930s less in terms of their political strategy than in their function as a cultural and literary program for the exiles, implying a specific relationship to questions of artistic form, historical conceptions, and indeed the political as such. A popular front aesthetics is, Bivens argues, realist and modernist at once, and, in its focus on the opacities and contradictions of everyday life as a historical formation, it is particularly concerned with problems of the epic form.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- 3. The Tasks of Emigration
- pp. 86-111
- Epilogue: The “Immense Window of Change”?
- pp. 225-236
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810131491
Related ISBN(s)
9780810131484
MARC Record
OCLC
914153345
Pages
299
Launched on MUSE
2015-07-20
Language
English
Open Access
No