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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Swope, Curtis
Titre(s) : Building socialism [Texte imprimé] : architecture and urbanism in East German literature, 1955-1973 / Curtis Swope
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury publishing Inc., 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-257 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : New directions in German studies ; vol. 19
Lien à la collection : New directions in German studies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Building Socialism' reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing
built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story
about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks
new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture to a mid-century modernist
literature in dialogue with multiple literary and left-wing theoretical traditions
and in tune with international assessments of modernist architecture and urban planning.
Design and construction were a central part of politics and everyday life in East
Germany during this time as buildings old and new were asked to bear heavy ideological
and social burdens. In their novels, stories, and plays, Heiner Müller, Christa Wolf,
Günter Kunert, Volker Braun, Günter de Bruyn, and Brigitte Reimann responded to enormous
new factory complexes, experimental new towns, the demolition of Berlin's tenements,
and the propagation of a pared-down modernist aesthetic in interior design. Writers'
representation of the design, construction, and use of architecture formed part of
a turn to modernist literary devices, including montage, metaphor, and shifting narrative
perspectives. East Germany's literary architecture also represents a sophisticated
theoretical reflection on the intractable problems of East Germany's socialist modernity,
including the alliance between state socialism and technological modernization, competing
commitments to working-class self-organization and the power of specialist planners
and designers, and the attempt to create an alternative to fascism
Sujet(s) : Littérature allemande -- Allemagne (République démocratique) -- Thèmes, motifs
Architecture -- Dans la littérature
Urbanisme -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-5013-2811-4. - ISBN 1-5013-2811-5 (rel.). - ISBN 978-1-5013-2812-1
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453088344
Notice n° :
FRBNF45308834
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