Research Catalog

Title

Viennese Jewish modernism : Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler / Abigail Gillman.

Author

Gillman, Abigail, 1964-

Publication

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

x, 225 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Refiguring modernism ; 10
• Refiguring modernism

Uniform Title

Refiguring modernism 10.

Subject

• Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 > Criticism and interpretation
• Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929 > Criticism and interpretation
• Beer-Hofmann, Richard, 1866-1945 > Criticism and interpretation
• Schnitzler, Arthur, 1862-1931 > Criticism and interpretation
• Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
• Modernism (Literature) > Vienna
• Jews > Vienna > Intellectual life
• Austria > Jewish influences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Origins of Viennese Jewish Modernism -- Part 1: Genres of Memory -- Freud's Modernism in A Childhood Memory of Leonardo da Vinci (1910), "The Moses of Michelangelo" (1914), and Moses and Monotheism (1938) -- Hofmannsthal's Jewish Pantomime: Der Schuler (The Student, 1901) -- Part 2: Hybrid Plots, Virtual Jews -- How a Viennese Modernist Becomes a Jew: Beer-Hofmann's Der Tod Georgs (The Death of Georg, 1900) -- Anatomies of Failure: Jewish Tragicomedy in Schnitzler's Der Weg ins Freie (The Road into the Open, 1908) and Professor Bernhardi (1912) -- Part 3: Performing the Hebrew Bible -- Mythic Memory Theater and the Problem of Jewish Orientalism in Hofmannsthal's Ballet Josephslegende (Legend of Joseph, 1912) -- The Forgotten Modernism of Biblical Drama: Beer-Hofmann's Die Historie von Konig David (The History of King David, 1918-33) -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780271034096 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0271034092 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008029794

OCLC

234234088

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library