Research Catalog

Title

Decadence and innovation : Austro-Hungarian life and art at the turn of the century / edited by Robert B. Pynsent.

Publication

London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1989], ©1989.

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Additional Authors

Pynsent, Robert B.

Description

xiii, 258 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Austria > Civilization > 19th century > Congresses
• Austria > Civilization > 20th century > Congresses
• Austria > Intellectual life > 19th century > Congresses
• Austria > Intellectual life > 20th century > Congresses

Note

• "A small selection of papers from a large international conference on Austria-Hungary at the turn of the century, held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London in December, 1986"--P. [ix].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Images of the city / Edward Timms -- The role of Jews in Viennese culture and society at the turn of the century / Steven Beller -- Weininger and the science of sex / Allan Janik -- The expression of exactness / Kevin Mulligan -- The concept of tradition / J.C. Nyíri -- Minority culture in a capital city / Monika Glettler -- The reception of the Hungarian feminist movement, 1904-14 / F.T. Zsuppán -- Paradoxes in Hungarian adepts of symbolism and decadence at the beginning of the twentieth century / André Karátson -- Imitation or inspiration / Magda Czigány -- The self / Petr Wittlich -- The significance of Czech fin-de-siècle criticism / Jiří Kudrnáč -- The modern occult revival in Vienna, 1880-1910 / Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke -- Conclusory essay / Robert B. Pynsent.

ISBN

0297795597

LCCN

89206921

OCLC

• 20109296
• ocm20109296

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries