Neusachliche Verhaltenslehren in der Prager deutschen Literatur
New Objective Behavioural Doctrines in Prague German Literature

Author(s): Adéla Grimes
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, History of ideas, Comparative Linguistics, Czech Literature, German Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: Prague German fiction; Neue Sachlichkeit (literature); literary criticism and history; interpretation and reception of literature
Summary/Abstract: This publication deals with the new-objective way of writing and new-objective cool conduct and its occurrence in Prague-German literature. Three representative novels, Otto Roeld’s Malenski auf der Tour, Hans Natonek’s Kinder einer Stadt, and Paul Kornfeld’s Blanche oder Das Atelier im Garten, were chosen to demonstrate the appearance of New Objectivity within the ‘circle’ of Prague-German authors. New-objective features analysed in these works prove the hitherto prevalent marginalization of New Objectivity within German-written literature in Prague to be unjustified. The biography of the authors included in this publication points out their most important stages in life, as well as their participation in the cultural space of Bohemia and the Weimar Republic.

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