A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism

Richard T. Gray; Sabine Hake; James Rolleston; Ernst Schuerer; Francis Michael Sharp; Walter H. Sokel; Klaus Weissenberger; Perry Willett; Rhys W. Williams; Barbara D. Wright

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Edited by Neil H. Donahue, Neil Donahue is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
With contributions by Richard T. Gray , Sabine Hake , James Rolleston , Ernst Schuerer , Francis Michael Sharp , Walter H. Sokel , Klaus Weissenberger , Perry Willett , Rhys W. Williams and Barbara D. Wright

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: April 2017
Print publication year:: 2005
Online ISBN:: 9781571136565

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies
Series:: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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More than any other avant-garde movement, German Expressionism captures the aesthetic revolution of 20th-century modernity in all its contrasts and conflicts. In continuous eruptions from 1905 to 1925, Expressionism upset reigning practices in the arts, most vividly in painting and the visual arts. In the literature, a heady intellectualism combined with dramatic gesture, graphic visions, exuberant emotions and urgent proclamations to forge forceful styles of verbal expression. Expressionism introduced into art both visual and verbal a shockingly new intensity with many facets and many faces.This volume presents the literature of German Expressionism, which is far less known in the English-speaking world, with essays by leading scholars on Expressionism's philosophical origins, its thematic preoccupations, and its divergent stylistic manifestations by writers whose common bond is intensity and whose lines on the page read like the gouges of a woodcut: Georg Kaiser, Walter Hasenclever,and Ernst Toller in drama; Gottfried Benn, Georg Heym, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Georg Trakl in poetry; Alfred Döblin, Carl Einstein, and Carl Sternheim in prose, to name just a few. Against the background of the journals, exhibitions, and anthologies, the café meeting places and public life of Expressionism, the volume's highly focused, intrinsic analyses of texts and comprehensive overviews of extrinsic contexts (and of the most up-to-date research) shows the fervor and complexity of the period and its effulgent literary formations.

Neil H. Donahue is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Preface and Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Chronology
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-36

Philosophical Background
pp 37-38

1 - Metaphysical Mimesis: Nietzsche's Geburt der Tragödie and the Aesthetics of Literary Expressionism
pp 39-66

Prose
pp 67-68

2 - The Prose of German Expressionism
pp 69-88

3 - Prosaic Intensities: The Short Prose of German Expressionism
pp 89-110

4 - The Cutting Edge of German Expressionism: The Woodcut Novel of Frans Masereel and Its Influences
pp 111-134

Poetry
pp 135-136

5 - Menschheitsdämmerung: The Aging of a Canon
pp 137-156

6 - Choric Consciousness in Expressionist Poetry: Ernst Stadler, Else Lasker-Schüler, Georg Heym, Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn
pp 157-184

7 - Performing the Poem: Rituals of Activism in Expressionist Poetry
pp 185-228

Drama
pp 229-230

8 - Provocation and Proclamation, Vision and Imagery: Expressionist Drama between German Idealism and Modernity
pp 231-254

9 - The Spirit of Expressionism ex machina: The Staging of Technology in Expressionist Drama
pp 255-284

Interdisciplinary
pp 285-286

10 - Intimate Strangers: Women in German Expressionism
pp 287-320

11 - Expressionism and Cinema: Reflections on a Phantasmagoria of Film History
pp 321-342

Select Bibliography
pp 343-356

Notes on the Contributors
pp 357-360

Index
pp 361-373

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