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Contents: Metaphysical Mimesis: Nietzsche’s Geburt der Tragödie and the Aesthetics of Literary Expressionism -- The Prose of German Expressionism -- Prosaic Intensities: The Short Prose of German Expressionism -- The Cutting Edge of German Expressionism: The Woodcut Novel of Frans Masereel and Its Influences -- Menschheitsdämmerung: The Aging of a Canon -- Choric Consciousness in Expressionist Poetry: Ernst Stadler, Else Lasker-Schüler, Georg Heym, Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn -- Performing The Poem: Rituals of Activism in Expressionist Poetry -- Provocation and Proclamation, Vision and Imagery: Expressionist Drama Between German Idealism and Modernity -- The Spirit of Expressionism Ex Machina: The Staging of Technology in Expressionist Drama -- Intimate Strangers: Women in German Expressionism -- Expressionism and Cinema: Reflections on a Phantasmagoria of Film History.

This volume draws from the Museum of Modern Art's outstanding holdings of expressionist prints, enhanced by selected drawings, paintings and sculptures from the collection, to explore the importance of printmaking in German expressionism.
Contents: German Expressionism: the graphic impulse -- Dance of life, dance of death -- PLATES [1] The advent of Expressionism: three paths, 1905-1914. -- Brücke -- Der Blaue Reiter -- Austrian Expressionism -- [2] Expressionism flourishes: a thematic overview, 1910-1924. -- The body -- Nature -- Portraiture -- War -- City life -- Sex -- Religion -- [3] Expressionism responds: the aftermath of war, 1919-1924. -- Postwar politics -- Postwar portraits -- Notes on the artists -- Notes on the publishers -- Chronology.

Description: This volume thus surveys Austrian writers of drama, prose fiction, and lyric poetry; relates them to the distinctive history of modern Austria, a democratic republic that was overtaken by civil war and authoritarian rule, absorbed into Nazi Germany, and re-established as a neutral state; and examines their response to controversial events such as the collusion with Nazism, the Waldheim affair, and the rise of Haider and the extreme right.
Contents: Drama in Austria, 1918-45 -- Austrian Prose Fiction, 1918-45 -- Publishers and Institutions in Austria, 1918-45 -- Popular Culture in Austria: Cabaret and Film, 1918-45 -- The Politics of Austrian Literature, 1927-56 -- Austrian Poetry, 1918-2000 -- Writing in Austria after 1945: The Political, Institutional, and Publishing Context -- Austrian Responses to National Socialism and the Holocaust -- Drama in Austria, 1945-2000 -- Austrian Prose Fiction, 1945-2000 -- Popular Culture in Austria, 1945-2000 -- Shifting Boundaries: Responses to Multiculturalism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.

Description: As the bourgeois concept of "home" became problematic after important changes in German-speaking society during the 19th century, many fiction writers chose the literary setting of the hotel to explore the status of the individual and the notions of public and private. The book has two parts, the first establishing the cultural and theoretical context and the second providing analyses of literary works set in hotels.
Contents: The history of European commercial hospitality -- The hotel and hotel culture in modernism : some critical thoughts -- Players and places : stock elements of hotel culture and fiction -- Women in hotels -- Men in hotels -- Menschen im Hotel.

Description: The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Characterized by economic and political instability, polarization, and radicalism, the period witnessed the efforts of many German writers to play a leading political role, whether directly, in the chaotic years of 1918-1919, or indirectly, through their works. Taken together, the essays introduce readers not only to 12 notable Weimar novelists but also to the era's predominant styles (from expressionism to new objectivity).
Contents: Heinrich Mann and the struggle for democracy -- Hermann Hesse and the Weimar Republic -- In defense of reason and justice: Lion Feuchtwanger’s historical novels of the Weimar Republic -- The case of Jakob Wassermann: social, legal, and personal crises in the Weimar Republic -- Signs of the times: Joseph Roth’s Weimar journalism -- Ernst Jünger, the new nationalists, and the memory of the First World War -- Innocent killing: Erich Maria Remarque and the Weimar anti-war novels -- In "A far-off land": B. Traven -- Weimar’s forgotten Cassandra: the writings of Gabriele Tergit in the Weimar Republic -- Radical realism and historical fantasy: Alfred Döblin -- Vicki Baum: "A first-rate second-rate writer"? -- Hans Fallada’s literary breakthrough: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben and kleiner Mann -- was nun?