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1 online resource |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 168 |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 168.
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Cover; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1. A civil literature in an uncivil time ; 1.2. The propaganda imperative ; 1.3. Literary conscripts ; 1.4. A Franco-Hellenic axis ; 1.5. The German philhellenic paradigm ; 1.6. The literary-critical focus: the aesthetic ; 1.7. A reappraisal of critical reception ; 1.8. Prevailing literary form ; 1.9. The Kriegstagebuch: mastery and criticism ; 1.10. Editions and source texts: methodology ; 2. Kulturpolitik: courtship, custodianship ; 2.1. Myth and realities; 2.2. France: the centrality of Paris |
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2.3. Greece: apprehending the antique 3. Literature on two fronts ; 3.1. Involuntary tourism ; 3.2. The Francophile's dilemma ; 3.3. Culture shock: the East ; 3.4. Applied fictive form ; 4. Aesthetic dissidence ; 4.1. Erhart Göpel's Die Normandie and Die Bretagne ; 4.2. Göpel and Erhart Kästner: freedom of the aesthete ; 4.3. Griechen!and/Kreta: repossession of classical Greece ; 4.4. Aesthetic of light: Erhart Kästner and Felix Hartlaub ; 4.5. Aesthetic of stone: Kästner's appeal for moderation ; 4.6. Mentioning the war: classical elision ; 4.7. The redundancy of revision |
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4.8. Kästner, Hauptmann, Heidegger: Wortunder ; 5. Felix Hartlaub: Paris underground ; 5.1. Formative influences on We!tanschauung ; 5.2. The migrant j!dneur ; 5.3. Idle pursuit? The wartime j!dneur ; 5.4. Hartlaub: the writing persona ; 5.5. Doppelgänger: Hartlaub and ""Er"" ; 5.6. Phenomenology of a city ; 5.6.1. Paris: elemental transmutation ; 5.6.2. The body municipal ; 5.6.3. Anthropometric ironies ; 5.7. erzih!te Zeit: relegation of chronological time ; 5.8. Occupation: alien aesthetic ; 5.9. Sub-texts of subversion ; 5.10. Colour as agent ; 5.10.1. The coded spectrum |
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5.10.2. Colour as re-animation 5.10.3. Colour as isolation: studies in grey ; 5.10.4. Colour as myopia: the use of etiolation ; 5.11. The centrality of the Paris sketches: critical reception ; 5.12. Lacunae, resistance speculation, death of a j!dneur ; 6. Conclusion ; 6.1. Fortunes of war ; 6.2. The modes of literary response: an evaluation ; Bibliography ; Illustrations |
| Summary |
Pax in Bello, peace in the midst of war, was the motto one writer chose to signify the private dilemma: how could the humanist, clad in the uniform of the occupier, write of liberal values, see with a liberal eye - and publish, or hope to? From the armistice peace of occupied France, from the partisan war and incipient civil war of Greece, from the all-out warfare in southern Russia, came writing that revealed not just the everyday split consciousness resulting from the overlay of Nazi ideology, but writing also that circumvented and in places subverted the propaganda imperative which then gov |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Hartlaub, Felix, 1913-1945?
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Kästner, Erhart, 1904-1974.
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| SUBJECT |
Hartlaub, Felix, 1913-1945? fast |
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Kästner, Erhart, 1904-1974 fast |
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Soldiers' writings, German -- History and criticism
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Authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Authors, German
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Soldiers' writings, German
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War and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401210195 |
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9401210195 |
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1306315425 |
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9781306315425 |
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9042037709 |
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9789042037700 |
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