Riassunto
An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction. 2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Studies of literary responses to National Socialism between 1933 and 1945 have largely focused on exiled writers; opposition within Germany and Austria is less well understood. Yetin both countries there were writers who continued to publish imaginative literature that did not conform to Nazi precepts: the authors of the so-called Inner Emigration. They withdrew from the regime and sought to express theirnonconformity through camouflaged texts designed to offer sensitized readers encouragement, reassurance, and consolation. This book provides a critical, historically informed reassessment of these writers. It is innovative inscope, in its use of little-known sources, in placing authors and texts in a detailed social and political context, and in analyzing seminal topoi and tropes of oppositional discourse. One of the most extensive studies of the topic in German or English, it provides a state-of-the-art text for literary historians, scholars, and students of German literature, but also, thanks to its accessibility and translation of all material, serves as an introduction for English-speaking readers to this poorly understood group of writers. Two contextualizing chapters are followed by chapters devoted to Werner Bergengruen, Stefan Andres, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Gertrud von le Fort, Reinhold Schneider, Ernst Jünger, Ernst Wiechert, and Erika Mitterer. JOHN KLAPPER is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Recensione
[G]enuinely indispensable, even to readers well versed in the topic of "inner emigration." The two initial chapters . . . are disproportionately powerful distillations of research in literary history, genre criticism, social analysis, and factual-archival investigation. . . . [A] monumental study. . . . AUSTRIAN STUDIES
[N]uanced . . . . [S]ucceeds in its aim of providing much-needed detailed textual and historical analysis of ostensibly ambivalent writings about humanist values that passed or evaded Nazi monitoring of writing and publication. . . . [C]ontributes a remarkable amount [to] the ongoing excavation of this subcategory of nonconformist writing . . . . FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
John Klapper's monograph combines a general introduction to the literature of the so-called "inner emigration" with exemplary textual analyses. . . . As a whole the study -- which is not only directed at scholars in the field -- offers a good overview . . . . GERMANISTIK
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Klapper's detailed efforts to historicize the reception history of the inner emigration, and to expand the imaginative scope within which twenty-first-century readers might re-engage with it, offer a blueprint for enriching new departures in this area. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES
[A] seminal study that provides even a non-German-speaking readership a detailed view of this interesting topic. . . . Recommended. MITTEILUNGEN DER STEFAN-ANDRES-GESELLSCHAFT
[A] comprehensive analysis . . . . Klapper's book gives evidence of an intensive engagement with works of the inner emigration and arrays before the reader readily comprehensible and engaging interpretations that inspire one to want to read-or re-read-the texts. DER LITERARISCHE ZAUNKÖNIG
In this important and comprehensive study, John Klapper convincingly argues for a reassessment of nonconformist literature and National Socialism. . . [A] useful and important addition not only to literary studies but to the investigation of the arts under National Socialism in general. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
In this compelling, well-researched study-a major contribution to the field-Klapper presents a thorough reassessment of [the] so-called inner emigrants and develops models for untangling the contradictions in their writing. . . . Highly recommended. CHOICE
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