<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Until now, the literary historical classification of the decades from 1930 to 1960 has been largely adapted to the breaks and categories of German history. This compendium presents a wide range of methodological perspectives for examining this problem of 20th century literary creation. A focus is placed on the consistent analysis of literary textual procedures.