Expressionism as an International Literary Phenomenon
Twenty-one essays and a bibliography
Editor
Ulrich Weisstein’s collection of 21 essays offers a comparative study of Expressionism as a Modernist movement whose dynamic core lay in Germany and Austria-Hungary, but which transformed artistic practices in other European countries. The focus, Weisstein argues, “must be strictly and sharply aimed at a specific body of works and opinions—a relatively dense core surrounded by a less clearly defined fringe zone—indigenous to the German speaking countries.” The volume spans an “Expressionist” period extending from roughly 1910 to 1925. Weisstein himself contributes two introductory chapters on problems of definition and a thoughtful analysis of English Vorticism. An ample context is set by comparative essays concerned with international movements such as Futurism that had an impact on German Expressionist drama, prose, and poetry, together with essays on the adaptation of Expressionist forms in countries such as Poland, Russia, Hungary, South Slavic nations and the United States. These essays call attention to representative authors and artists, as well as to periodicals and artistic circles. Reviewers have praised not only the presentation of “literary links and interaction” among national cultures, but especially the “most rewarding” interdisciplinary essays on Dada and on Expressionist painting, music, and film.
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, I] 1973. 360 pp.
Publishing status: Available | Original publisher: Librairie Marcel Didier and Akadémiai Kiadó
© John Benjamins B.V. / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée
Table of Contents
Preface
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7–13
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Expressionism as an internationaln literary phenomenon: Introduction
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15–28
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Expressionism: "Style of "Weltanschauung?"
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29–44
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Outline of the philosophic backgrounds of expressonism
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45–58
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Foreign influences on German expressionist drama
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59–68
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Foreign influences on German expressionist poetry*
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69–78
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Foreign influences on German expressionist Prose*
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79–96
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Dadiasm and expresionism
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97–110
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Expressionist literature and painting
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111–139
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Expressionist literature and music
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141–160
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A contributions to the definition of the expressionist film
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161–166
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Vorticism: Expressionism English style*
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167–180
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Expressionism in English drama and prose literature
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181–192
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Expressionism in the American theatre*
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193–203
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Expressionist stage techniques in the Russian theater
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205–219
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Expressionism in Scandinavia
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211–224
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Expressionism in Belgium and Holland
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225–258
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Expressionism and the south slavs
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259–268
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Rumanian Expressionism*
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269–286
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Expressionism in Hungary
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287–297
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Russian esxpressionism*
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299–314
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Expressionism as an international phenomenon
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329–349
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Index
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351–360
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
BIC Subject: DSB – Literary studies: general
BISAC Subject: LIT000000 – LITERARY CRITICISM / General