John Klapper

Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany (eBook, PDF)

The Literature of Inner Emigration

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Jünger, Ernst Wiechert, and Erika Mitterer.

John Klapper is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782045625
• Artikelnr.: 56164035

Autorenporträt

John Klapper

Inhaltsangabe

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