Interwar Vienna - Culture Between Tradition and Modernity

New essays providing a wide-ranging cultural, social, and political picture of volatile between-the-wars Vienna.

List of contents

Introduction: Beyond the Coffeehouse. Vienna as a Cultural Center between the World Wars - Deborah Holmes
Introduction: Beyond the Coffeehouse. Vienna as a Cultural Center between the World Wars - Lisa Silverman
Cultural Parameters between the Wars: A Reassessment of the Vienna Circles - Edward Timms
"weisse Struempfe oder neue Kutten": Cultural Decline in Vienna in the 1930s - John Warren
"Wiener Kreise": Jewishness, Politics, and Culture in Interwar Vienna - Wolfgang Maderthaner and Lisa Silverman
A City Regenerated: Eugenics, Race, and Welfare in Interwar Vienna - Paul Weindling
Free Dance in Interwar Vienna - Andrea Amort
Hollywood on the Danube? Vienna and Austrian Silent Film of the 1920s - Alys George
Between Tradition and a Longing for the Modern: Theater in Interwar Vienna - Birgit Peter
The Hegemony of German Music: Schoenberg's Vienna as the Musical Center of the German-Speaking World - Therese Muxeneder
Anticipating Freud's Pleasure Principle? A Reading of Ernst Weiss's War Story "Franta Zlin" (1919) -
Facts and Fiction: Rudolf Brunngraber, Otto Neurath, and Viennese Neue Sachlichkeit - Jon Hughes
The Viennese Legacy of Casanova: The Late Erotic Writings of Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Blei - Birgit Lang
An Englishman Abroad: Literature, Politics, and Sex in John Lehmann's Writings on Vienna in the 1930s - Robert Vilain
Notes on Contributors
Index

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Holmes
• Assisted by: Deborah Holmes (Editor), Lisa Silverman (Editor), Lisa (Customer) Silverman (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9781571134202
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-420-2
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 617 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)