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Article: The poeta doctus and the new German poetry: Raoul Schrott's Tropen.
- Article from:
- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Since 1990 two distinct tendencies have been diagnosed in German literature: a recuperative concern with real fates and histories, on the one hand, and surrender to a pervasive "Massenkultur," on the other, a mode where form triumphs over content and commerce is all (Kraft 12). My interest here is in a countercurrent to both of these: young writers, predominantly men, possibly "habilitiert," who wear their intellectual credentials on their sleeves, and who are actively difficult to read. They espouse none of the "Alltagssprache," nor the "simple stories" that have been much discussed (especially in prose work). But they are also, for the most part, far from a postmodern ...