The Twentieth Century 1890-1945

ISBN-13: 9780367436537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 300 str.

Raymond Furness

Opis

Originally published in 1978, this study presents a detailed analysis of the major literary movements in Austria and Germany from the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the Third Reich. It examines the plethora of literary genres which marked the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

Spis treści

1. An Introduction: Naturalism and Its Decline 2. Jung-Wien 3. Aestheticism, Decadence and Neo-Romanticism in Germany 4. The Cosmic Dimension 5. Modernism and ‘Sprachkrise’ 6. The Problem of Expressionism 7. The 1920s and 1930s 8. Barbarism, Exile and Return

O autorze

Raymond Furness was at the Universities of Manchester and St. Andrews