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050 00 $aPT2613.E47$bZ7557 2002
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100 1 $aNorton, Robert Edward,$d1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr88004907
245 10 $aSecret Germany :$bStefan George and his circle /$cRobert E. Norton.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c2002.
300 $axvii, 847 pages :$billustrations, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 815-820) and index.
520 1 $a"Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important and influential poets to have written in German. His work, in its originality and impact, easily ranks with that of Goethe, Holderlin, or Rilke. Yet George's reach extended far beyond the sphere of literature. Particularly during his last three decades, George gathered around himself a group of men who subscribed to his homoerotic and idiosyncratic vision of life and sought to transform that vision into reality.".
520 8 $a"George considered his circle to be the embodiment and defender of the "real" but "secret" Germany, opposed to the false values of contemporary bourgeois society. Some of his disciples, friends, and admirers were themselves historians, philosophers, and poets. Their works profoundly affected the intellectual and cultural attitudes of Germany's elite during the critical postwar years of the Weimar Republic.".
520 8 $a"Essentially conservative in temperament and outlook, George and his circle occupy a central but problematic place in the rise of proto-fascism in Germany. Their own surrogate state offered a miniature model of a future German state: enthusiastic followers submitting themselves without question to the figure and will of a charismatic leader believed to be in possession of mysterious, even quasi-divine, powers.".
520 8 $a"When he died several months after the Nazi takeover, George was one of the most famous and revered figures in Germany. Today the importance of George and his circle has largely been forgotten. In this, the first full biography of George to appear in any language, Robert E. Norton traces the poet's life and rise to fame."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGeorge, Stefan,$d1868-1933$xFriends and associates.
600 10 $aGeorge, Stefan,$d1868-1933$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aPoets, German$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109446
651 0 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054638
852 00 $bglx$hPT2613.E47$iZ7557 2002