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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Christoph Schaub Recent modernism studies have largely ignored the literature of the workers' movement. They perpetuate a historically influential dichotomy between modernism and workers' movement literature that can be traced back to the Weimar Republic. The article situates Anna Seghers's Revolt...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): iii.
Published: 01 August 2023
... University she published extensively on Anna Seghers and coedited the multivolume critical edition of Seghers’s works. We dedicate this issue to Helen’s memory. ...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 153–180.
Published: 01 February 2021
... literary texts through the organizations of the labor movement rather than through their circulation on the capitalist book market. The literature of socialist internationalism put proletarian worlds into the center of its literary imagination. In works by Franz Jung, Anna Seghers, Egon Erwin Kisch...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 69–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to largely conservative aesthetic and cultural presuppositions. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 postwar German culture Anna Seghers Willi Bredel Bertolt Brecht Hermann Hesse The Postwar Restoration in East and West Stephen Brockmann...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
Published: 01 August 2014
... refugees, including André Breton, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lion Feuchtwanger, Siegfried Kracauer, Max Ophüls, Heinrich Mann, Anna Seghers, Victor Serge, and Franz Werfel. See, e.g., Fry’s memoir, Surrender on Demand (1945; Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, in conjunction with the United...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 1–8.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Hungarian Council Republic. After that republic was crushed by another, now “red” counterrevolution, Lukács’s name appeared on the death lists once again. This time he was saved by the intervention of his old friends and comrades Anna Seghers, Johannes R. Becher, and Ludwig Janka. 5 Lukács...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 135–153.
Published: 01 November 2012
... support of the communist regime by placing the “Workers of the World, Unite!” slogan in his store window?74 Already in June 1947, shortly after her return to Berlin, Anna Seghers contemplated a similar phenomenon in post- war Germany. She describes a baker who for ten years had exhibited in his...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 125–152.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... Gladkov’s book suggested that it is in fact simpler to implement revolutionary political slogans than to transform the stubborn habits of everyday existence. At the moment when “the revolution is entering into its second phase, into revolutionary everyday life,” Anna Seghers wrote in a 1927 review...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 155–178.
Published: 01 August 2018
... from West Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as their considerable literary fame with members like Bertolt Brecht, Anna Seghers, and Arnold Zweig. 13 The West Germans, at a disadvantage politically and literarily, joined PEN’s larger efforts to combat Eurocommunism—including work...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 209–227.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the mid-1950s. The counter- position to Lukács was articulated by Anna Seghers, Brecht, and Bloch, who already in the 1930s argued for modernism as a realism for the twentieth century. 5 5. For some of the key texts of this debate, see Ernst Bloch et al., Aesthetics and Politics (Lon- don...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 15–47.
Published: 01 August 2006
... und Form 43 (1991): 429–86. 26 Müllerʼs Production Plays Umsiedlerin, the SED suppressed opposition not only by applying the coer- cive methods of the Stasi but also by appealing to the loyalty of intellectuals, like Weigel and Writers Union president Anna Seghers, to the idea...