Description
| Product ID: | 9781803091945 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Secret Germany – Myth in Twentieth–Century German Culture |
| Authors: | Author: Furio Jesi, Richard Braude |
| Page Count: | 296 |
| Subjects: | Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An analysis of how a political myth is taken and treated as a metaphor that reflects how a country like Germany built its own destiny. In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, “Secret Germany” was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into everyday life, the secularization of myth and the mythologization of history. In this book, Furio Jesi takes up the term in order to trace the contours of that political, artistic, and aesthetic thread as it runs through German literary and artistic culture in the period—which, in the 1930s, became absorbed by Nazism as part of its prophecy of a triumphant future. Drawing on thinkers like Carl Jung and writers such as Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke, Jesi reveals a literary genre that was transformed, tragically, into a potent political myth. |
| Imprint Name: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-09 |