The Long Shadow of the Past - Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture

List of contents

Introduction: Confrontations with the Past
Melancholy Journeys to the Past: The Films of Ruth Beckermann
Reconstructing a Home: Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch's Haus der Kindheit
Silencing the Past: Margarete Heinrich's and Eduard Erne's Totschweigen and Elfriede Jelinek's Rechnitz (Der Wurgeengel)
Historicizing the Waldheim Affair: Robert Schindel's Der Kalte
Missing Images: Memorials and Memorial Projects in Contemporary Vienna
Conclusion: Living with Shadows
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Katya Krylova

Product details

• Authors: Katya Krylova
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781571139399
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-939-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 471 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Deutsch, Europäische Geschichte, Österreich-Ungarn, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary