Interbellum literature : writing in a season of nihilism /

Interbellum literature : writing in a season of nihilism /

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Author / Creator:	Hermans, Cornelis Andreas Marie, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description:	ix, 543 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Literary modernism ; volume 4 Literary modernism (Leiden) ; v. 4.
Subject:	Modernism (Literature) -- Europe. Modernism (Literature) -- United States. Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. American literature. European literature. Literature, Modern. Modernism (Literature) Europe. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11454397

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ISBN:	9789004341791 900434179X 9789004341807
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In 'Interbellum Literature' historian Cor Hermans presents a panorama of modernist writing in the ominous period 1918-1940. The book offers, in full scope, an engaging synthesis of the most stimulating ideas and tendencies in the novels and plays of a wide circle of writers from France (Proust, Gide, Camus, Céline, Tzara, Aragon, Simone Weil), England and Ireland (Virginia Woolf, Orwell, Joyce, Beckett), the USA (Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, O?Neill, Hemingway), Austria-Hungary (Musil, Broch, Kafka, Zweig, Roth), and Germany (Hesse, Jünger, Böll, Thomas Mann). Caught between world wars, they nevertheless succeeded in creating some of the best literature ever. They created a philosophy as well, rejecting bourgeois?mechanical? society, designing escape routes from the nihilism of the times.
Other form:	Online version: Hermans, Cornelis Andreas Marie author. Interbellum literature. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004341807
Standard no.:	40027376900

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Summary:	In Interbellum Literature historian Cor Hermans presents a panorama of modernist writing in the ominous period 1918-1940. The book offers, in full scope, an engaging synthesis of the most stimulating ideas and tendencies in the novels and plays of a wide circle of writers from France (Proust, Gide, Camus, C line, Tzara, Aragon, Simone Weil), England and Ireland (Virginia Woolf, Orwell, Joyce, Beckett), the USA (Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, O'Neill, Hemingway), Austria-Hungary (Musil, Broch, Kafka, Zweig, Roth), and Germany (Hesse, J nger, B ll, Thomas Mann). Caught between world wars, they nevertheless succeeded in creating some of the best literature ever. They created a philosophy as well, rejecting bourgeois 'mechanical' society, designing escape routes from the nihilism of the times.
Physical Description:	ix, 543 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789004341791 900434179X 9789004341807