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From Abstraction To Documentary: Ernst Toller’S Plays As War Dramas, Lisa Marie Anderson
From Abstraction To Documentary: Ernst Toller’S Plays As War Dramas, Lisa Marie Anderson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This article considers what the plays of Ernst Toller add to our conception of German literature about World War I. It interrogates the relevant themes that emerge in his plays: how the body at war is memorialized; the class divide as an instrument of militarism; and the responsibility to bear both sensory and documentary witness to war events. Though they are more frequently ascribed to Nachkriegsdrama or Heimkehrerdrama, Toller’s plays from 1919-1930 illustrate a broader development in Kriegsliteratur from Expressionist abstraction to a more realistic treatment of historical particulars. Tracing this gradual development helps to further dispel the myth …
Robert Ellis. Ernst Toller And German Society: Intellectuals As Leaders And Critics 1914-1939. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Up, 2013., Margy J. Gerber
Robert Ellis. Ernst Toller And German Society: Intellectuals As Leaders And Critics 1914-1939. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Up, 2013., Margy J. Gerber
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Robert Ellis. Ernst Toller and German Society: Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics 1914-1939. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013.