Hermynia Zur Mühlen : the guises of socialist fiction
Wallace, AilsaAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2009.
Zur Muhlen saw literature primarily as a political tool and used popular forms of literature to convey her ideas to a wide audience. This book examines her prose fiction against the backdrop of her life and the turbulent times she lived in - the Weimar Republic and exile from the Third Reich.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Zur Muhlen saw literature primarily as a political tool and used popular forms of literature to convey her ideas to a wide audience. This book examines her prose fiction against the backdrop of her life and the turbulent times she lived in - the Weimar Republic and exile from the Third Reich.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Die Pflicht eines Schriftstellers, es ihnen zu sagen!' -- Happily ever after...?: Was Peterchens Freunde erzählen (1921) ; Märchenbücher (1922-1924) ; Orientalische Märchen (1925-1927) ; Conclusion -- Murder in the Weimar Republic: 'Der etwas destruktive, aber furchtbar aufregende Lawrence H. Desberry' ; From English Manors to Mean Streets: Der blaue Strahl (1922) and An den Ufern des Hudsons (1925) ; Creating a Socialist Series : EJUS (1925) ; Anti-Fascist Krimis : Die wei€e Pest (1926) and Abenteuer in Florenz (1926) ; Lawernce H. Desberry gestorben? : Im Schatten des elektrischen Stuhls (1929) ; Conclusion -- Socialist literature for girls: 'Trotzdem ich keineswegs eine Feministin bin...' ; Lina (1924) ; Das Riesenrad (1932) and Reise durch ein Leben (1933) ; Conclusion -- Ende und Anfang (1929): From Kaiserliche Palast-Dame to KPD ; A writer's story ; A woman's story ; A traveller's tale ; Conclusion -- Early exile novels: Unsere Töchter, die nazinen (1934 ); Nora hat eine famose Idee (1932/1933) ; Ein Jahr im Schatten (1935) ; Conclusion -- Later exile novels: Ewiges Schattenspiel (1938) ; Als der Fremde kam (1946) ; Conclusion.
Zur Mühlen, Hermynia, 1883-1951
Austrian fiction
Socialism in literature
Politics in literature
Germanic Literature
Languages & Literatures