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German Writers and Politics 1918–39

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Richard Dove

    1. Thames Polytechnic, UK

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  2. Stephen Lamb

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Part of the book series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities (WSEH)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Commitment and the Illusion of Power

    • Richard Dove, Stephen Lamb
    Pages 1-12

  3. Artists, Intellectuals and the German Independent Socialist Party (USP): Some Preliminary Reflections

    • Richard Sheppard
    Pages 13-29

  4. René Schickele and the 1918 Revolution

    • Margaret Rogister
    Pages 30-43

  5. Kurt Tucholsky’s Analysis of the 1918–19 Revolution

    • Ian King
    Pages 44-59

  6. Ernst Toller: The Redemptive Power of the Failed Revolutionary

    • Frank Trommler
    Pages 60-75

  7. Weimar and the Political Film: From Die Weber to Kuhle Wampe

    • John Warren
    Pages 76-88

  8. From Social Fascism to Popular Front: KPD Policy as Reflected in the Works of Friedrich Wolf, Anna Seghers and Willi Bredel, 1928–1938

    • Anthony Grenville
    Pages 89-102

  9. Politics and the War Novel: the Political Conception and Reception of Novels about the First World War

    • Hans-Harald Müller
    Pages 103-120

  10. ‘Militant Humanism’: a Concept of the Third Way in Exile 1933–1945

    • Thomas Koebner
    Pages 121-148

  11. Literary Exile in Great Britain

    • J. M. Ritchie
    Pages 149-162

  12. Forms of Conviction: The Problem of Belief in Anti-Fascist Plays by Bruckner, Toller and Wolf

    • Tom Kuhn
    Pages 163-177

  13. Ernst Toller and the Exigencies of Exile

    • N. A. Furness
    Pages 178-191

  14. Ernst Toller and Ireland

    • Joachim Fischer
    Pages 192-206

  15. Adventurism, Propaganda or Commitment? German Writers in the Spanish Civil War

    • Alexander Ostmann
    Pages 207-219

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 220-225
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Political changes between 1918 and 1939 had important implications for German writers. The essays in this volume focus on questions such as the writers' relationship to political parties and ideology, their treatment of the legacy of World War I, and their response to the rise of fascism.

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  • Thames Polytechnic, UK

    Richard Dove

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Stephen Lamb

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