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

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

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Author / Creator:	Miller, Matthew D., author.
Imprint:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	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. Johnson, Uwe, -- 1934-1984. Kluge, Alexander, -- 1932- Weiss, Peter, -- 1916-1982. Ästhetik des Widerstands (Weiss, Peter) Jahrestage (Johnson, Uwe) German fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Cold War in literature. Cold War (1945-1989) in literature. German fiction. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11801975

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ISBN:	9780810137325 0810137321 9780810137332 081013733X 9780810137349 0810137348
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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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