Epic and Exile: Novels of the German Popular Front, 1933-1945 Volume 20 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810131484)

The antifascist exile beginning in 1933 led to a cooling among the émigrés of the artistic and literary modernist experiments of the Weimar Republic and to a return to realism and the traditional novel form. Epic and Exile examines the Popular Front- oriented cultural initiatives of the 1930s less in terms of their political strategy than in their function as a cultural and literary program for the exiles, implying a specific relationship to questions of artistic form, historical conceptions, and indeed the political as such. A popular front aesthetics is, Bivens argues, realist and modernist at once, and, in its focus on the opacities and contradictions of everyday life as a historical formation, it is particularly concerned with problems of the epic form.

Author: Hunter Bivens
ISBN-10: 081013148X
ISBN-13: 9780810131484
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2015
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d