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Article: Karl Leydecker, ed.: German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics.(Book review)
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- The Germanic Review
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- June 22, 2009
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Karl Leydecker, ed.
German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics.
Rochester: Camden, 2006. Pp. 286.
It seems that in the field of German studies, as far as the period of the Weimar Republic is concerned, there is no dearth of new historical studies of canonical works such as Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (see Peter Jelavich's 2006 monograph Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture) and Brecht's Three Penny Opera (in Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy). The same is true about interdisciplinary explorations of Weimar's fascinating visual media such as film, art, ...