Literary Process in Germany at the Turn of the 19 th and 20 th Centuries: Interaction of Literary Trends

Abstract

The article discusses dynamic interaction among artistic communities (trends, movements, etc.) exploring the specificity of literary space in Germany at the turn of the 19 th and 20 th centuries. This is a comparative study that develops a historical and contextual approach and pays special attention to the panoramic overview of the literary process shaped by philosophical and aesthetic ideas of modernism. The essay exposes complex mechanisms of interaction of various artistic schools and trends, and traces transformation of the old and emergence of the new generic and stylistic, constructs against the background of permanently turbulent, typological, and etymological shifts of the transition era.

Keywords

• German literature
• modernism
• trend
• style
• transformation