Abbreviations Glossary Introduction Chapter 1: The change of people and media: from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich Chapter 2: The media dictatorship and its power over the book Chapter 3: The book in a media dictatorship - the rulers' perspective Chapter 4: The book in a media dictatorship - the subjects' perspective Conclusion: A failed experiment? On the meaning of the book for the Nazi media dictatorship Sources Index
An extensive account of the Nazi's literary politics, and of their control of writers and all forms of the written word, between 1933 and 1945.
An extensive account of the Nazi's literary politics, and of their control of writers and all forms of the written word, between 1933 and 1945.
Professor Jan-Pieter Barbian is a historian and Director of Duisburg Municipal Library, Germany. He is a leading expert on Nazi literary politics and cultural policy. He is the author of Literaturpolitik im Dritten Reich (1993) and Die vollendete Ohnmacht (2008) and is a member of Historische Kommission des Boersenvereins fur den deutschen Buchhandel. Kate Sturge holds a Chartered Institute of Linguists' Diploma in Translation (German-English) and a PhD in Comparative Literature. She is co-editor of the Routledge journal Translation Studies. Her translations include Friedrich Nietzsche: Writings from the Late Notebooks (ed. Rudiger Bittner, Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Barbian provides fascinating new insights into the motives behind the media dictatorship and the motivations for participation in it. The book thus makes a significant contribution to research into the politics of literature under National Socialism * Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 50 *
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