Research Catalog

Title

Epic and exile : novels of the German Popular Front, 1933-1945 / Hunter Bivens.

Author

Bivens, Hunter,

Publication

• Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
• ©2015

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Description

x, 287 pages; 23 cm.

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{u2013} 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.

Series Statement

FlashPoints

Uniform Title

• FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
• Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• Anti-fascist movements in literature
• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 > Criticism and interpretation
• Claudius, Eduard
• Claudius, Eduard > Criticism and interpretation
• Exiles' writings, German
• Exiles' writings, German > History and criticism
• German fiction
• German fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Marchwitza, Hans > Criticism and interpretation
• Marchwitza, Hans
• Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983 > Criticism and interpretation
• Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: "A feeling for history" : the Popular Front novel -- Epic forms and the crisis of the novel -- After the revolution : Hans Marchwitza, The Kumiaks -- The tasks of emigration -- Place and plot : Anna Seghers, The seventh cross -- Ghostly solidarities : Eduard Claudius, Green olives and bare mountains -- Die deutsche Misere? : Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and her children -- Epilogue: the "immense window of change"? -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780810131484 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 081013148X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780810131491 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015011480

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library