Research Catalog

Title

Austria in literature / edited and with a preface by Donald G. Daviau.

Publication

Riverside, CA : Ariadne Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Daviau, Donald G.

Description

xii, 326 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought

Uniform Title

Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Austrian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Austria > In literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "... Symposium at the University of California, Riverside, in 1997 ... The contributions in German were published as a special issue of Modern Austrian literature (31, 3/4, 1998 ...), while those presented in English are contained in this volume."--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Vienna as the Heart of Darkness: Wilhelm Raabe's "Lesser-Germany Politics / John Pizer 1 -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Bozena: A Czech Maid and the Future of Austria / Ester Riehl 19 -- Fashion and Class in Rosa Mayreder's Fiction / Jane Sokolosky 31 -- Modes of Nostalgia and Figurations of "Austria" in the Exil(auto)biographien of Richard Beer-Hofmann and Stefan Zweig / Matti Bunzl 48 -- How "Belle" Was the "Belle-Epoque" Really? Some Not So "Belle" Reflections of Vienna in the "Belle-Epoque" Mirrors of Kraus, Altenberg, and Petzold / Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg 60 -- Endings and Beginnings: Musil's Invention of Austrian History / Alexander Honold 75 -- Subliminal Austria: Sigmund Freud in World Literature / Raymond L. Burt 86 -- On Galician Jews in the Habsburg Monarchy as Depicted in H.W. Katz's Novel Die Fischmanns / Ena Pedersen 103 -- Nationalism, Modernity, and Multinational Austria in the Works of Joseph Roth / Ian Reifowitz 120 -- Separate Reality, Separate Nations? Austria in the Works of Jewish and Non-Jewish Authors / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz 132 -- Robert Menasse's Concept of Anti-Heimat Literature / Michael P. Olson 153 -- Gerhard Roth's Der See and Josef Haslinger's Opernball: A Comparative Treatment of Contemporary Austria / Karl E. Webb 166 -- Post-Bernhardian Austria in Lilian Faschinger's Magdalena Sunderin / Gerald A. Fetz 179 -- 'Black Holes' in the Novels of Christoph Ransmayr: An Astronomical Interpretation of Images of Alternative Worlds in his Work / Lynne Cook 193 -- Underground Austria / Pamela S. Saur 212 -- American Writers and Austria in the 1930s / Horst Jarka 225 -- Austria in the American Short Story / Rita Terras 243 -- Idea of Austria in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood / Geoffrey C. Howes 256 -- Schlagobers and Blood: Vienna in John Irving's Novel The Hotel New Hampshire / Jorg Thunecke 276 -- "I Wept While I Was Dreaming" How to Survive the Holocaust after the Holocaust in Jon Marans' Play Old Wicked Songs / Gerd K. Schneider 295 -- Image of Austria in Literary Readings From American Textbooks / Susan C. Anderson 309.

ISBN

1572410655

LCCN

^^^99086608^

OCLC

• 43109824
• SCSB-11177626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library