Viennese Jewish Modernism - Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler

Argues that Viennese Jewish modernism is explicable as an aesthetic reconfiguration of Jewish tradition in response to multifaceted crises of memory, identity and language. Examines the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

Info autore

Abigail Gillman is Associate Professor of German and Hebrew in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Boston University.

Riassunto

Argues that Viennese Jewish modernism is explicable as an aesthetic reconfiguration of Jewish tradition in response to multifaceted crises of memory, identity and language. Examines the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Abigail Gillman
• Editore: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9780271034096
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03409-6
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 186 mm x 247 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 656 g
• Illustrazioni: 22 Halftones, black and white
• Serie: Refiguring Modernism; Refiguring Modernism
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata