Description: Examines the intense intellectual debates in immediate postwar Germany, often conducted in literature or literary discourse.
Brief description: STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.
Review Quotes: Throughout the course of his thorough and well-researched chapters, Brockmann provides various perspectives that allow political, literary, and critical definition of the Zero Hour to take shape, and he effectively reintroduces the writings of the time period....-- "GERMAN QUARTERLY"