Nonconformist writing in Nazi Germany : the literature of inner emigration /

Studies of literary responses to National Socialism have largely focused on exiled writers; opposition within Germany and Austria is less well understood. Yet in both countries there were writers who continued to publish imaginative literature that did not conform to Nazi precepts: the authors of th...

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Main Author: Klapper, John, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2015.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1: Nazi Germany and literary nonconformism
  • 2: The writers of the inner emigration and their approaches
  • 3: Werner Bergengruen : "the Führer novel?"
  • 4: Stefan Andres : the Christian humanist response to tyranny
  • 5: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen : the snobbish dissenter and his tale of mass insanity
  • 6: Gertrud von le Fort : religious wars and the Nazi present
  • 7: Reinhold Schneider : Indios, Jews, and persecution
  • 8: Ernst Junger : spiritual opposition as resistance?
  • 9: Ernst Wiechert, the principled conservative : from public dissent to the "simple life"
  • 10: Erika Mitterer : witch hunts and the power of evil
  • Conclusion.