Edited by Dirk Göttsche, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is… read more
This Introduction serves a fourfold function: to outline the premises and principles governing the project as a whole, to survey recent developments that characterize scholarship in the field, to delineate the innovative collaborative methodology governing the undertaking, and to provide a… read more
We tend to think of literary realism largely as an invention and product of the nineteenth century. However tenuous and misguided this attribution may be, literature after 1900 is nonetheless typically seen as ideologically and expressively at variance with the nineteenth-century’s formulas for… read more
Germany was unique in the postwar period, specifically the four decades spanning the years 1949 to 1989, in that the nation’s geopolitical division into two ideologically opposed states – one capitalist, Western and a member of NATO, the other communist and a member of the Warsaw Pact – was… read more
The community of German-language Marxist intellectuals living in exile in the 1930s was riven by the so-called “Expressionism Debate,” often also referred to as “Realism Debate.” In essays published in the Moscow-based exile journal Das Wort in 1937 and 1938, the initial contributors to the… read more
