"Die Perser! Die Perser kommen…" : Zur Aktualisierung eines Barbaren-Topos in der deutschen Exilliteratur
- A closer look at the literary works, essays, letters and diaries of important German exile writers and anti-Nazi dissidents during National Socialism leads to an important observation: that is the increase of references to classical topoi of the Barbarian. Since at least 1933 and the traumatic Nazi book burnings, in German (exile) literature does not only occur a political actualization but also an emphatical radicalization of the reactivated dichotomies of 'civilization/culture' vs. 'the Barbarian' and sometimes more specific of 'the Hellenes' vs. 'the Persians'. Even though numerous literary texts display these dichotomies, in literary criticism a systematic analysis of their semantic implications and their function is still lacking. This study thus aims to present a first overview and interpretation of this noticeable actualization of the above mentioned topoi in German exile literature, particularly in the works of Klaus Mann.
| Author: | Moritz Wagner |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-473818 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8498-1119-8 |
| ISSN: | 0179-3780 |
| Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Poetik und Rhetorik des Barbarischen = Poétique et rhétorique du barbare, Colloquium Helveticum ; 45 |
| Publisher: | Aisthesis Verlag |
| Place of publication: | Bielefeld |
| Editor: | Melanie Rohner, Markus Winkler |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | German |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/08/30 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Creating Corporation: | Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| Release Date: | 2018/08/30 |
| GND Keyword: | Mann, Klaus; Nationalsozialismus <Motiv>; Exilliteratur; Barbar <Motiv>; Bücherverbrennung |
| Volume: | 2016 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 135 |
| Last Page: | 156 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 436189844 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur | |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft | |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Aisthesis Verlag | |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 17.00.00 20. Jahrhundert (1914-1945) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 17.00.00 20. Jahrhundert (1914-1945) > 17.15.00 Exilliteratur |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Colloquium Helveticum / Poetik und Rhetorik des Barbarischen = Poétique et rhétorique du barbare (Colloquium Helveticum ; 45.2016) |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-473677 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
