Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Cultural History of Literature
• 1: A European German Literature
• Enlightenment identities
• The virtue of sexuality
• The German idea of literature
• A German Shakespeare
• Greece comes to Germany
• Casualties of Idealism
• Infinity for all
• The consolation of philosophy
• Irony
• Spilt religion
• What Germans really read
• Spirit in the age of modern literature
• 2: Poetry and Politics
• The classical inheritance in the modern world
• German realism
• An affirmative literature
• The German literature myth and what Germans really read
• The Novelle
• Problematic affirmative literature
• Overture to the future
• 3: Imperial Modernity
• The revolution that never was
• The social question
• The German claim to art
• Literature on the ground
• The world of publicity
• The marketing of exclusivity
• German art meets advertising
• Publicity as a creative force
• Language becomes self-conscious
• Literature and technology
• 4: The Literature of Negation
• The Great War
• Fort/Dada
• The broken subject
• Fascist negation
• Negation in the dialectic
• Negation and the Holocaust
• The lyric of negation
• 5: The Fate of Affirmative Literature
• The Third Reich
• The German Democratic Republic
• 6: Literature in Democratic Capitalism
• From Erlebnis to Erfahrung
• Old literature adapts to the new world
• Testimony, market, society
• Exile
• The economic miracle
• Medial hybridity
• Conclusion: The End of the Age
• References
• Index