Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany (eBook)

The Literature of Inner Emigration

John Klapper (Autor)

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2015
464 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78204-562-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Junger, Ernst Wiechert, and Erika Mitterer. John Klapper is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction
Nazi Germany and Literary Nonconformism
The Writers of the Inner Emigration and Their Approaches
Werner Bergengruen: "The Führer Novel"?
Stefan Andres: The Christian Humanist Response to Tyranny
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen: The Snobbish Dissenter and His Tale of Mass Insanity
Gertrud von le Fort: Religious Wars and the Nazi Present
Reinhold Schneider: Indios, Jews, and Persecution
Ernst Jünger: Spiritual Opposition as Resistance?
Ernst Wiechert, the Principled Conservative: From Public Dissent to the "Simple Life"
Erika Mitterer: Witch Hunts and the Power of Evil
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: dissent • Fiction • german authors • German Literature • Inner emigration • Literary response • Literary Responses • Literature • Nazi Germany • Nonconformist Writing • Oppositional Discourse • political context • social context • writers
• ISBN-10: 1-78204-562-7 / 1782045627
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78204-562-5 / 9781782045625