The antifascist exile beginning in 1933 led to a cooling among the émigrés of the artistic and literary modernist experiments of the Weimar Republic and to a return to realism and the traditional novel form. Epic and Exile examines the Popular Front- oriented cultural initiatives of the 1930s less in terms of their political strategy than in their function as a cultural and literary program for the exiles, implying a specific relationship to questions of artistic form, historical conceptions, and indeed the political as such. A popular front aesthetics is, Bivens argues, realist and modernist at once, and, in its focus on the opacities and contradictions of everyday life as a historical formation, it is particularly concerned with problems of the epic form.
| ISBN: | 9780810131484 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2015 |
| Author: | Hunter Bivens |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 287 pages |
| Series: | FlashPoints |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of language Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |