Research Catalog

Title

Gender and politics in Austrian fiction / edited by Ritchie Robertson and Edward Timms.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Robertson, Ritchie.
• Timms, Edward

Description

xi, 220 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume of essays on Austrian fiction, compiled at a time when Austria is forming stronger links within the European Union, illustrates a transition from traditional preoccupations with character differences between Austrian and German literature to wider concerns of politics and gender. Fictional treatments of such issues as male homosexuality, problems in feminism, the representation of women in male-authored texts and anti-war protest are examined both in well-known novels and in little-known works by underrated authors. Many of the authors discussed have received insufficient recognition because they do not fall within a familiar canon of German literature. The specialised research involved in compiling this material is accessible through a series of book reviews included at the end of the volume which range in subject area from the life of an eighteenth-century soldier in the Habsburg service to the continuing discussion on Austrian identity.

Series Statement

Austrian studies ; 7

Uniform Title

Austrian studies 7.

Subject

• Austrian fiction > History and criticism
• Sex role in literature
• Feminism and literature
• Women in literature
• Politics in literature
• Feminism and literature > Austria

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• An Austrian Jacksonian : Charles Sealsfield's poliical evolution, 1829-1833 / Jeffrey L. Sammons -- German idealists and American rowdies : Ferdinand Kürnberger's novel Der Amerika-Müde / Ritchie Robertson -- Unconscious poesy? : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Die Poesie des Unbewussten / R.C. Ockenden -- Ferdinand von Saar's Doktor Trojan : politics, medicine and myth / Ian Foster -- Knowing the other : Leopold von Andrian's Der Garten der Erkenntnis and the homoerotic discourse of the Fin de siècle / Jens Rieckmann -- Kafka, homosexuality and the aesthetics of 'male culture' / Mark M. Anderson -- The First World War fiction of Andreas Latzko / Andrew Barker -- Misogyny and the myth of masculinity in Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch / Martha Wörsching -- Homage or parody? : Elias Canetti and Otto Weininger / Simon Tyler -- 'What matters who's speaking?' : Identity, experience and problems with feminism in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina / Stephanie Bird --^
• Austrophobia as it is : Charles Sealsfield, Thomas Bernhard and the art of exaggeration / Andrea Reiter -- Rewiew articles. Recent studies of Musil / Duncan Large ; Keeping up with Kafka / Ritchie Robertson -- Reviews. John Stoye, Marsigli's Europe / Charles Ingrao -- Franz A.J. Szabo, Kaunitz and enlightened absolutism 1753-1780; T.C.W. Blanning, Joseph II / T.J. Hochstrasser -- Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl), Austria as it is, ed. Primus-Heinz Kucher / W.E. Yates -- Eva Wagner, An analysis of Franz Grillparzer's dramas : fate, guilt and tragedy / Raymond Lucas -- Jeanne Benay, Friedrich Kaiser (1814-1874) et le théâtre populaire en Autriche au XIXe siècle / Peter Branscombe -- Ferrel V. Rose, The guises of modesty : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's female artists / Patricia Howe -- Stefan Scherer, Richard Beer-Hofmann und die Wiener moderne; Ulrike Peters, Richard Beer-Hofmann / Jens Rieckmann --^
• Jürgen Nautz and Richard Vahrenkamp (eds), Die Wiener Jahrhundertwende : Einflüsse, Umwelt, Wirkungen / Gilbert J. Carr -- Paul Stefanek, Vom Ritual zum Theater / Brian Keith-Smith -- Ulrike Lang, Mordshetz und Pahöl : Austriazismen als Stilmittel bei Karl Kraus / Victoria Martin -- Jennifer E. Michaels, Franz Werfel and the critics / Lothar Huber -- Darius Gray Ornston (ed.), Translating Freud; The complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939, ed. R. Andrew Paskauskas / Joyce Crick -- Allyson Fiddler, Rewriting reality : an introduction to Elfriede Jelinek / Karen Leeder -- Joseph P. Strelka, Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Traum : das Wesen des Österreichischen in der Literatur / Andrew Barker.

ISBN

0748608389

OCLC

• 35107204
• SCSB-11344013

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library