Secret Germany Myth in TwentiethCentury German Culture by ... - 9781803091945

Name: Secret Germany Myth in TwentiethCentury German Culture by ... - 9781803091945
Brand: Seagull Books London Ltd

Seagull Books London Ltd

Secret Germany Myth in TwentiethCentury German CultureAuthor(s): Furio Jesi, Richard Braude\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Seagull Books London Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781803091945, 978-1803091945\nSynopsis\nAn analysis of how a political myth is taken and treatedas a metaphor that reflectshow a country like Germanybuilt its own destiny. In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, Secret Germany was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into everyday life, the secularization of myth and the mythologization of history. In this book, Furio Jesi takes up the term in order to trace the contours of that political, artistic, and aesthetic thread as it runs through German literary and artistic culture in the periodwhich, in the 1930s, became absorbed by Nazism as part of its prophecy of a triumphant future. Dra.