Overview
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.
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Author: Hunter Bivens
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Imprint: Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9780810131484
ISBN 10: 081013148
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 10 September 2015
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<i>Epic and Exile</i> focuses on the Popular Front political discourse of the 1930s and how it triggered a crisis of representation among leftist writers exiled from Germany. Bivens's finely honed analyses make a compelling argument that these writers' epic strategies contribute to the larger context of modernist representation as a mode of historical understanding. ---Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Epic and Exile focuses on the Popular Front political discourse of the 1930s and how it triggered a crisis of representation among leftist writers exiled from Germany. Bivens'sfinely honed analyses make a compelling argument that these writers' epic strategies contribute to the larger context of modernist representation as a mode of historical understanding. ---Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Epic and Exile focuses on the Popular Front political discourse of the 1930s and how it triggered a crisis of representation among leftist writers exiled from Germany. Bivens's finely honed analyses make a compelling argument that these writers' epic strategies contribute to the larger context of modernist representation as a mode of historical understanding. ---Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Author Information
Hunter Bivens is an assistant professor of literature and German studies at the University of California–Santa Cruz, USA.
