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Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state / Katherine Arens.
- Title
- Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state / Katherine Arens.
- Author
- Arens, Katherine, 1953-
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2015.
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- Description
- ix, 328 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Vienna's Dreams of Europe argues for a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represent a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, a culture mixing various nationalities, ethnicities and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. To challenge standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own publics as European. Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism, and working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West"--
- Series Statement
- New directions in German studies ; vol. 13
- Uniform Title
- New directions in German studies ; v. 13.
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- Europa
- Literatur
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- Kulturelle Identität
- Austrian literature > Vienna > History and criticism
- Group identity in literature
- Group identity > Austria > History
- National characteristics, Austrian
- National characteristics, European
- LITERARY CRITICISM > German
- Austrian literature
- Civilization
- Group identity
- Intellectual life
- Literature
- Österreich
- Vienna (Austria) > Intellectual life > 19th century
- Vienna (Austria) > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Austria > Civilization
- Austria > In literature
- Austria
- Austria > Vienna
- Oostenrijk
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Austria as a Challenge to Europe -- 1. Letters to the Ruling Class: The Public Spaces of Enlightenment -- 2. Extending Europe's Enlightenment: Why Grillparzer Resists Weimar -- 3. Revolution from the Prompter's Box: Rewriting Public Dreams of Political Morality -- 4. Eclipses, Floods, and Biedermeier Catastrophes: Public Spaces in extremis -- 5. Hofmannsthal's European Revolution: Recapturing a Space for Common Culture -- 6. Schnitzer and the Space of Public Discourse: The Politics of Decadence in fin de siècle Vienna -- 7. Kasperl and the Wiener Gruppe: artmann, Bayer and Handke -- 8. A New Balkan Challenge: The Reemergence of Austria's Europe -- Afterword: Austria as Europe?: The Art and Science of the Post-National Culture.
- ISBN
- 9781441142498
- 1441142495
- 9781441170217
- 1441170219
- 9781441118233 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781441175601 (canceled/invalid)
- 1441118233 (canceled/invalid)
- 1441175601 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015011009
- OCLC
- 757481133
- SCSB-11683703
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library