Research Catalog

Title

Modern Austrian prose : interpretations and insights / edited and introduced by Paul F. Dvorak.

Publication

Riverside, CA. : Ariadne Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

Dvorak, Paul F.

Description

viii, 386 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought

Uniform Title

Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought.

Subject

• Austrian prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Austrian prose literature > 21st century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-377) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• v. 1. Attempts at a representation of love in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina / Rhonda Duffaut -- Michael Scharang's Charly Traktor: a quest for a new form of understanding in the public and private spheres / Claudia A. Becker -- Elfriede Jelinek's Die Liebhaberinnen: on the (re)-production line / Rebecca S. Thomas -- Professionalism, patriotism, or opportunism? An Austrian dilemma: Peter Henisch's Die kleine Figur meines Vaters / Todd C. Hanlin -- Peter Handke's coming to terms with Kafka: Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung / Frank Pilipp -- Autobiography as reconciliation: the literary function of Elias Canetti's Die gerettete Zunge / Raymond L. Burt -- The quest for meaning in Peter Rosei's Von hier nach dort / Kathleen E. Thorpe -- Depth charges: history and identity in Gerhard Roth's Der stille Ozean / Rebecca S. Thomas -- Marianne Gruber's Die gläserne Kugel: humanity in the future? / Margaret T. Peischl -- First sentences, autobiography, and self-irony: Thomas Bernhard's Beton / Karl E. Webb -- Mysteries of the subject: Friederike Mayröcker's Reise durch die Nacht / Beth Bjorklund -- Christoph Ransmayr's Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis: interweaving fact and fiction into a postmodern narrative / Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger -- Individualism and indoctrination in Alfred Kolleritsch's Allemann / Paul F. Dvorak -- Emancipation from the past. From group identity toward an integrated self: Robert Schindel's Geburtig / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Mapping the point of no return: Robert Menasse's Schubumkehr / Renate S. Posthofen -- The anti-hero in Michael Kohlmeier's Telemach / Gerlinde Ulm Sanford.
• v. 2. Elisabeth Reichart's Februarschatten: the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd and the language of repression and denial / Felix Tweraser -- The bestiality of decency: communal cruelty in Erick Hackl's Abschied von Sidonie / Geoffrey Howes -- Victims and perpetrators: questions of identity in Norbert Gstrein's Das Register / Cynthia Klima -- Memory and identity in Doron Rabinovici's Suche nach M / Francis Michael Sharp -- Anna Mitgutsch, Haus der Kindheit: mourning, remembrance, and restitution / Maria-Regina Kecht -- Julian Schutting's Am Morgen vor der Reise: a playfully serious postmodern excursion through childhood in post-war Austria / Angela Gulielmetti -- Balancing opposites: "geometric" and "regional" aspects of Gert Jonke's Geometrischer Heimatroman / Vincent Kling -- Contextualizing and decontextualizing Barbara Frischmuth's novel Das Verschwinden des Schattens in der Sonne / Pamela Saur -- From Habsburg princess to queen of Brazil: Gloria Kaiser's historical novel Dona Leopoldina / Donald Daviau -- For whom the turtle weeps: Paulus Hochgatterer's Caretta Caretta / Todd Hanlin -- The picaresque in Lilian Faschinger's Wiener Passion / Joseph Moser -- Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht: reality fiction and the new economy / Rebecca Thomas -- Strange bedfellows: Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt / Ronald Horwege -- Communism, immigration and the necessity of faith: Dimitré Dinev's Engelszungen / Helga Schreckenberger -- The feminist anti-quest in Marlene Streeruwitz's Entfernung / Raymond Burt.

ISBN

1572411023

LCCN

^^2001022780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library