Literature in Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries - Continuities and Discontinuities Around 1900 and 2000

Insightful essays on the striking resemblances between the Viennese literary/cultural scene in 1900 and 100 years later.

List of contents

Introduction: Notes on Literature in Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries - Ernst Grabovszki
The Written City: Vienna 1900 and 2000 - Janet Stewart
Notes from the Counter World: Poetry in Vienna from Hugo von Hofmannsthal to Ernst Jandl - Ruediger Goerner
Austrian Women and the Public: Women's Writing at the Turn of the Centuries - Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
Dreams of Interpretation: Psychoanalysis and the Literature of Vienna - Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Venice as Mediator Between Province and Viennese Metropolis: Themes in Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Gerhard Roth, and Kolleritsch - John Pizer
Critical Observers of Their Times: Karl Kraus and Robert Menasse - Geoffrey C. Howes
Art and Architecture 1900 and 2000 - Douglas Crow
Austrian Cinema Culture at the Turn of the Centuries - Willy Riemer
"Wien bleibt Wien": Austrian-Jewish Culture at Two fins de siècle - Hillary Hope Herzog and Todd Herzog
"Medizin ist eine Weltanschauung.": On Schnitzler's Medical Writings - Hillary Hope Herzog

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Ernst Grabovszki, James Hardin

Summary

Insightful essays on the striking resemblances between the Viennese literary/cultural scene in 1900 and 100 years later.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Crow, Ernst Grabovszki, James Hardin, Geoffrey C. Howes, Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
• Assisted by: Ernst Grabovszki (Editor), James Hardin (Editor), James (Customer) Hardin (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2002
• EAN: 9781571132338
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-233-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 228 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries