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New Anthology Of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays
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Book Synopsis New Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays by : Richard H. Lawson
Download or read book New Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays written by Richard H. Lawson and published by Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zauner's A Handful of Earth describes an ambitious domineering woman who gains her financial goals but, like Brecht's Mother Courage, at the cost of her entire family; Elfriede Jelinek's President Evening Breeze, based loosely on a folk play by Johann Nestroy, the acknowledged nineteenth-century master of the form, is a political satire on the career of Kurt Waldheim, the former president of Austria; Peter Rosei's Blameless presents ordinary people as the subject of history; it shows how the media as representatives of commercial culture, popularize and often trivialize serious current issues.
Book Synopsis Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays by : Veza Canetti
Download or read book Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays written by Veza Canetti and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five plays collected in this volume provide a representative sampling of the Austrian contemporary Volksstuck (folk play). The Volksstuck which has its origins in the eighteenth century has become a favorite genre of modern Austrian playwrights because of its tradition of treating basic social problems critically and realistically. The timeless universal drives of greed, power, and inhumanity remain the dominant themes of the modern Volksstuck as they were of the older version. These Selections -- Veza Canetti, The Ogre; Peter Preses/Ulrich Becher, Our Mr. Bockerer; Peter Turrini, Swine; Felix Mitterer, No Place for Idiots; Gerald Szyszkowitz, Friedemann Puntigam -- are available in English for the first time.
Download or read book Austrian Information written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections by : John Henry Ottemiller
Download or read book Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections written by John Henry Ottemiller and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
Download or read book Modern Austrian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the index to the Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association, 1961-67.
Book Synopsis Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia by : André Bastian
Download or read book Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia written by André Bastian and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Allemann written by Alfred Kolleritsch and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kolleritsch transforms what might appear to be a timeworn "historical" theme into a semi-autobiographical statement about the present as the evil from the past latently and semiconsciously pervades the present. The scars on Joseph's body from his past are rediscovered in the virtually unreformed lives of his fellow countrymen."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Final Plays by : Arthur Schnitzler
Download or read book The Final Plays written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Austrian Folk Plays gives further evidence of the popularity of this form among contemporary writers. In the late nineteenth century the folk play had fallen into disrepute as trivial literature but in the 1920 it began to be restored to prominence and after World War II writers rediscovered the form and believed that it was ideally suited to treat contemporary social problems.
Book Synopsis Austria in Literature by : Donald G. Daviau
Download or read book Austria in Literature written by Donald G. Daviau and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a symposium at the University of California, Riverside, in 1997. Contributions in German were published as a special issue of Modern Austrian literature, 31, 3/4, 1998; English contributions are contained in this volume. Twenty-one essays consider the national image of Austria, both historically and in the current period. They examine the view of Austria projected in the writings of American, Austrian, and German authors, ranging from the late 19th century to the present. Attention is given to factors such as the country's natural beauty, the tradition of the monarchy, and pressing political and social problems. Name index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis New Austrian Film by : Robert von Dassanowsky
Download or read book New Austrian Film written by Robert von Dassanowsky and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical anthology, by leading scholars of Austrian film, is intended to introduce and make accessible this much under-represented phenomenon. Although the book covers the full development of the Austrian new wave it focuses on the period that has brought it global attention: 1998 to the present. New Austrian Film is the only book currently available on this topic and will be an essential reference work for academics, students and filmmakers, interested in modern Austrian film.
Download or read book The Abbey written by Alois Brandstetter and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is this case that he has been called upon to investigate and report upon in detail to the Abbot, but his work as a detective, while in its own right interesting and remarkable, is only the pretext for a wide-ranging psychological and spiritual investigation of the condition of postwar Austria: its consumer society, its transformation of religion and history into tourism, and, most important, its failure to look itself squarely in the eye."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Flight from Greatness by : Hans Weigel
Download or read book Flight from Greatness written by Hans Weigel and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation from the German work first published in 1978, presented here with an afterword by the translator, Lowell A. Bangerter. Six biographical essays on writers Ferdinand Raimund, Johann Nestroy, Franz Grillparzer, Adalbert Stifter and composers Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss help illuminate the Austrian character. The author contends that the common elements of not being recognized, of being misunderstood, and of self misunderstanding make up the "Austrian fate" or greatness fleeing from itself. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Holocaust written by Fritz Hochwälder and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fritz Hochwalder's Holocaust: Court for the Dead features a clandestine court, inquiring into the guilt or innocence of Jewish leaders involuntarily enmeshed in the deportation of fellow Jews to the death factories of the Third Reich. It is perhaps the drama closest to Hochwalder's central concern as an author, the ethical conduct of human beings. The play is based on historical events in Budapest in 1944-45 in which the SS offered to barter the lives of a million Jews for the delivery of 10,000 trucks. Selective use of background facts along with the construction of a dramatically effective plot put Hochwalder's drama into the "must read" category. It is the only play about the Holocaust in which Jews do not fight the oppressor but hold court for one of their own, who in spite of good intentions may have gone too far."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Ephemeral Aphorisms written by Phia Rilke and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact that many of Phia Rilke's texts are based on her own personal experiences and are not mere linguistic and intellectual wordplays invests them with depth and significance and makes them the fascinating expression of a free spirit of the fin de siecle in Prague and Vienna. This bilingual edition of Phia Rilke's personal reflections on her life and time adds insightful observations on the rich cultural scene to which she belonged for eight decades.
Book Synopsis Ruthless and Other Writings by : Peter Rosei
Download or read book Ruthless and Other Writings written by Peter Rosei and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chasing After the Wind by : Barbara Frischmuth
Download or read book Chasing After the Wind written by Barbara Frischmuth and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Frischmuth, among the most widely recognised and respected Austrian writers today, is recognised not only for her descriptive skill, but also for being a moderate feminist. In these four short tales she presents realistic portraits of women caught up in relationships determined largely by social conventions, internalised roles, and sometimes just plain bad luck. Taking her title from Ecclesiastes "All is vanity and a chasing after the wind" she presents psychologically sound studies of women protagonists' futile efforts to break out of the dead-end situations, in which they have been trapped.
Book Synopsis Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach by : Doris M. Klostermaier
Download or read book Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach written by Doris M. Klostermaier and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of 19th century Austrian writer Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach examines her childhood in Moravia at Zdislawitz castle, her struggle to become a writer against her aristocratic family's wishes, and her life in Vienna as a recognized and honored writer. The author draws upon published and unpublished sources, including letters and diary entries which were thought to be destroyed, to portray the ambitious and talented von Ebner-Eschenbach as a human being with strengths, weaknesses, quirks, and foibles. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
