MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE 1870-1940BY VICTOR LANGE PREFACE THE following essay is intended to supply a critical outline of German literature between 1870 and the present. It should appeal especially to those who are not familiar with the details of that literatures recent history and who do not read the originals with ease. So general an aim may seem not only ambitious but possibly unpromising, and it involves, without doubt, cer tain difficulties which it is well to recognize clearly. Any attempt to establish historical and critical cohesion beyond the mere fortuitous mosaic of events is a matter of interpretation and interpretation will not succeed if we aim, even obliquely, at deceptive completeness or dry detachment. For completeness is a professorial virtue which it is wisest not to strain, and detachment is nowhere less valid an attitude than in the contempla tion and interpretation of literature. On the contrary, literary criticism, even though its immediate object is the...

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