Flight of fantasy : new perspectives on inner emigration in German literature, 1933-1945 / edited by Neil H. Donahue and Doris Kirchner.

Papers presented at a symposium held at Hofstra University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-308) and index.

Inner Emigration: the term and its origins in postwar debates / Stephen Brockmann -- In the thicket of inner emigration / Reinhold Grimm -- The young generation's non-national socialist literature during the Third Reich / Hans Dieter Schäfer -- Culture as simulation: the Third Reich and postmodernity / Hans Dieter Schäfer -- Targeting the reader, entering history: a new epitaph for the inner emigration / Frank Trommler -- Absences of time and history: poetry of inner emigration / Leonard Olschner -- Depictions of the state in works of the inner emigration / Colin Riordan -- The limits on literary life in the Third Reich / Volker Dahm -- Opposition or opportunism? Günter Eich's status as inner emigrant / Glenn R. Cuomo -- Conservative opposition: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's antifascist novel Bockelson: a history of mass hysteria / Karl-Heinz Schoeps -- Luise Rinser's escape into inner emigration / Diana Orendi -- Survival without compromise? Reconfiguring the past in the works of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch / Rhys W. Williams -- Exile honoris causa: the image of Erich Kästner among writers in exile / Guy Stern -- Günther Weissenborn's ballad of his life / Wulf Koepke -- Between Apocalypse and Arcadia: Horst Lange's visionary imagination during the Third Reich / Gerald Funk -- 'I mounted resistance, though I hid the fact': versions of Wolfgang Koeppen's early biography / David Basker -- Elisabeth Langgässer and the question of inner emigration / Cathy S. Gelbin -- The unsettling history of German historians in the Third Reich / Amy R. Sims -- State of the art as art of the Nazi state: the limits of cinematic resistance / David Bathrick.