The German epic in the Cold War : Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge / Matthew D. Miller

Weiss, Peter *1916-1982* [ErwähnteR] ; Johnson, Uwe *1934-1984* [ErwähnteR] ; Kluge, Alexander *1932-* [ErwähnteR]

Englisch

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018

© 2018

xvi, 237 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm

978-0-8101-3732-5 pbk. : alk. paper

978-0-8101-3733-2 cloth : alk. paper

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-8101-3734-9 (Fernzugriff) : (ebook)

9780810137325

*Weiss, Peter *1916-1982* / Johnson, Uwe *1934-1984* / Kluge, Alexander *1932-* / Prosa / Ost-West-Konflikt

*Epik / Weiss, Peter *1916-1982*. Die Ästhetik des Widerstands / Johnson, Uwe *1934-1984*. Jahrestage / Kluge, Alexander *1932-*. Chronik der Gefühle

*Weiss, Peter -- 1916-1982 -- Ästhetik des Widerstands ; Johnson, Uwe -- 1934-1984 -- Jahrestage ; Kluge, Alexander -- 1932- -- Chronik der Gefühle ; Weiss, Peter -- 1916-1982 -- Criticism and interpretation ; Johnson, Uwe -- 1934-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation ; Kluge, Alexander -- 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation ; German fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism ; Cold War in literature ; Weiss, Peter 1916-1982 ; Johnson, Uwe 1934-1984 ; Kluge, Alexander 1932- ; Weiss, Peter 1916-1982 -- Criticism and interpretation ; Johnson, Uwe 1934-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation ; Kluge, Alexander 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation ; German fiction -- History and criticism -- 20th century ; Cold War in literature

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PT772

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 833.91409 ; 833.91409

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: GN 9671: G Germanistik. Niederlandistik. Skandinavistik / GE 3003-GT 1500 Deutsche Literatur / Sekundärliteratur

Matthew Miller's The German Epic in the Cold War explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature. Examining works by Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge, it illustrates imaginative artistic responses in German fiction to the physical and ideological division of post-World War II Germany. Miller analyzes three ambitious German-language epics from the second half of the twentieth century: Weiss's Die Aesthetik des Widerstands (The Aesthetics of Resistance), Johnson's Jahrestage (Anniversaries), and Kluge's Chronik der Gefuhle (Chronicle of Feelings). In them, he traces the epic's unlikely reemergence after the catastrophes of World War II and the Shoah and its continuity across the historical watershed of 1989-91, defined by German unification and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Building on Franco Moretti's codification of the literary form of the modern epic, Miller demonstrates the epic's ability to understand the past; to come to terms with ethical, social, and political challenges in the second half of the twentieth century in German-speaking Europe and beyond; and to debate and envision possible futures

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