Traces literary developments in the German-speaking countries from 1900 to the present.

The First Decade of the Twentieth Century: Aestheticism - Impressionism and Symbolism
The 1910s: The First Phase of Avant-Garde Literature - Expressionism and Dada
The 1920s: High Modernism and the Second Phase of the Avante-Garde - Surrealistic Elements and New Objectivity
The Literary Continuum: From Anti-Modern to Modernist Voices
The National Socialist Literary Canon: The Uneasy Voice of Reactionary Traditions
Modernist Literature: The Many Voices of Defiance
1945-1949: The Immediate Postwar Years - Defining Different Traditions in East and West
The 1950s: Modernism or Formalism - Nonconformist Literature in the West vs. Socialist Realism in the East
The 1960s: Change in Literary Awareness - Politicization in the West and Emancipation of Subjectivity in the East
The 1970s: Increasing Plurality - New Sensitivity in the West and Continuing Emancipation in the East
The 1980s: New Confusions - Resurgence of Storytelling and Converging Literatures in East and West
The 1990s: A New Order of Things - German Issues and Global Themes in German-Language Literature
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