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Article: Stephen Brockmann: German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.(Book review)
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- The Germanic Review
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- June 22, 2006
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Stephen Brockmann
German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour
Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
Rochester: Camden, 2004. Pp. xi + 295.
Much of the recent work on the early post-1945 period in Germany begins by underscoring the general, and indisputable, scholarly neglect of these years. With the steady growth in studies of this period, this claim will, perhaps sometime soon, lose its validity, but, for now, there is still room on the academic shelf for (especially Anglophone) studies of this complex and not-well-understood period. In his new book on literary culture in these years, Stephen Brockmann demonstrates how ...