Ingo R. StoehrGerman Literature of the Twentieth Century
From Aestheticism to Postmodernism
The First Decade of the Twentieth Century: Aestheticism
Impressionism and Symbolism The 1910s: The First Phase of Avant
Garde Literature
Expressionism and Dada The 1920s: High Modernism and the Second Phase of the Avante
Garde
Surrealistic Elements and New Objectivity The Literary Continuum: From Anti
Modern to Modernist Voices The National Socialist Literary Canon: The Uneasy Voice of Reactionary Traditions Modernist Literature: The Many Voices of Defiance 1945
1949: The Immediate Postwar Years
Defining Different Traditions in East and West The 1950s: Modernism or Formalism
Nonconformist Literature in the West vs. Socialist Realism in the East The 1960s: Change in Literary Awareness
Politicization in the West and Emancipation of Subjectivity in the East The 1970s: Increasing Plurality
New Sensitivity in the West and Continuing Emancipation in the East The 1980s: New Confusions
Resurgence of Storytelling and Converging Literatures in East and West The 1990s: A New Order of Things
German Issues and Global Themes in German
Language Literature Works Consulted
