A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism
A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) Neil H. Donahue (Editor)
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571131752
Edition: Hardcover; 2005-09-09
Summary:
More than any other avant-garde movement, German Expressionism
captures the aesthetic revolution of 20th-century modernity in all
its contrasts and conflicts. In continuous eruptions from 1905 to
1925, Expressionism upset reigning practices in the arts, most
vividly in painting and the visual arts. In the literature, a heady
intellectualism combined with dramatic gesture, graphic visions,
exuberant emotions and urgent proclamations to forge forceful styles
of verbal expression. Expressionism introduced into art both visual
and verbal a shockingly new intensity with many facets and many
faces. This volume presents the literature of German Expressionism,
which is far less known in the English-speaking world, with essays by
leading scholars on Expressionism's philosophical origins, its
thematic preoccupations, and its divergent stylistic manifestations
by writers whose common bond is intensity and whose lines on the page
read like the gouges of a woodcut: Georg Kaiser, Walter Hasenclever,
and Ernst Toller in drama; Gottfried Benn, Georg Heym, Else
Lasker-Schüler, and Georg Trakl in poetry; Alfred Döblin, Carl
Einstein, and Carl Sternheim in prose, to name just a few. Against
the background of the journals, exhibitions, and anthologies, the
café meeting places and public life of Expressionism, the volume's
highly focused, intrinsic analyses of texts and comprehensive
overviews of extrinsic contexts (and of the most up-to-date research)
shows the fervor and complexity of the period and its effulgent
literary formations. Neil H. Donahue is Professor of German and
Comparative Literature at Hofstra University.
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