Form as Expression : A Study of the Lyric Poetry Written Between 1910 and 1915 by Lasker-Schueler, Stramm, Stadler, Benn, and Heym

By demonstrating that the new structures were not a breakdown, but rather a breakthrough in the concept of form, the author has provided formal justification for the use of the much-debated term expressionism. The study contains comparative analyses of the use of typographic structure, rhyme, meter, syntax and semantics, and rhythm in the works of five prominent poets.