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  • FC ; New Directions in German Studies; Volumes in the series:; Title; Copyright; Didication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part I Framing East Germany: Marxism, Architecture, and Literature; Introduction; Space in Architecture, Architecture in Marxism; East German Theories of the Built Environment; A Literature of Construction; 1 Socialist Writers and Modern Architecture; Brecht and Modern Architecture; Benjamin, Adorno, and the Neues Bauen; Operative Writing and Modern Architecture; Seghers's Realism: The Ambiguous Status of Description.
  • Part II Architecture, Theater, and the Early Years of the Scientific-Technological Revolution2 Confronting the Construction Site: Heiner Müller from Operativity to Metaphor; Buildings Against Paper; Compromised Operativity and Spatial Metaphorics; The Prinzip Auschwitz, Metaphor, and East German Built Space; Built Space and the Body in Der Bau; Carceral Communism: Construction Site as Prison; Traditional Urbanism and Construction Site as Playground; 3 Towards a Bourgeois Architecture: Helmut Baierl's Frau Flinz and the Space of the Class Enemy; Architecture According to Ulbricht.
  • Karl von Appen and the Making of Bourgeois SpaceKultur im Heim; Expropriation, Revolution, and Bureaucracy; Science and the Socialist Future; The Cult of Lenin and the Fading Dream; Part III Architecture and Modernity in the Prose of the 1960s; 4 Time at Home: The Domestic Interior in Günter de Bruyn, Irmtraud Morgner, Brigitte Reimann, Christa Wolf, and Gerhard Wolf; Henselmann and the GDR Interior; Prescriptions for a Socialist Wohnkultur; The Crisis of Civilization at Home; Nineteenth-Century Interiors and the "Vast Landscape of History"; Epilogue: Gerhard Wolf.
  • 5 Literary Responses to East German UrbanismThe Literature of the Communist Company Town; Fantasies of Urbanity in the Castrated City; From Axial to Arabesque: Christa Wolf's "Unter den Linden"; On the Threshold of History; Living with Prefab High-Rises; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.