A Concise History of Austria

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521478861
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (788 download)

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Book Synopsis A Concise History of Austria by : Steven Beller

Download or read book A Concise History of Austria written by Steven Beller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. In a gripping narrative supported by beautiful illustrations, Steven Beller traces the remarkable career of Austria from German borderland to successful Alpine republic.

"Vienna is Different"

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Publisher : Austrian and Habsburg Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781782380498
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis "Vienna is Different" by : Hillary Hope Herzog

Download or read book "Vienna is Different" written by Hillary Hope Herzog and published by Austrian and Habsburg Studies. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling "unheimlich heimisch" (eerily at home) in Vienna.

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814513
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Fin-De-Siecle Vienna by : Carl E. Schorske

Download or read book Fin-De-Siecle Vienna written by Carl E. Schorske and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek

The Making of Juana of Austria

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Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176885
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Making of Juana of Austria by : Noelia García Pérez

Download or read book The Making of Juana of Austria written by Noelia García Pérez and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by art historian Noelia García Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and sister to Philip II of Spain, offers an interdisciplinary study of the Habsburg princess that addresses her political, religious, and artistic dimensions. The volume’s contextual framework shows her sharing agency with other women of her dynastic family who governed in the sixteenth century and developed an outstanding reputation for promoting artists and works of art. The Making of Juana of Austria demonstrates how Juana’s role as a leading patron of the arts offered her a means of creating her own image, which she then promulgated through the objects she collected and her crowning architectural endeavor, the Monastery-Palace of the Descalzas Reales. Drawing on early modern literature, archival documents, and artworks, the essays in this volume delineate a new portrait of Juana of Austria. Contributors not only highlight her multiple facets—princess of Portugal, regent of Castile, and the only female Jesuit in history—but also show her as a discerning art patron and collector who pursued an active role of patronage, through which she constructed her own art collection and used it to articulate a visual statement of her lineage, power, and religious convictions. Her role as an art promoter culminated with the foundation of the Descalzas Reales and the works of art she collected and displayed within its walls. The Making of Juana of Austria offers a new perspective on female rule and patronage, exploring the achievements of a crucial figure in the history of art, court, and gender in early modern Europe.

Shadows of the Past

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433106484
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Shadows of the Past by : Hans H. Schulte

Download or read book Shadows of the Past written by Hans H. Schulte and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Austrian writers grapple with their country's problematic twentieth-century history? Nine scholars investigate how the complex role of the national past changed the content and context of Austria's literature. Contributions range from Klaus Zeyringer's aggressive argument for an authentically Austrian literature, to the late Harry Zohn's autobiographical insights of a transplanted Viennese. Probing essays examine the Liberal and the National-Socialist era writers in exile and in their roles as post-war social critics. Shadows of the Past also puts the authors themselves in the spotlight: A «mini-reader» of hard-hitting as well as humorous narrative texts complements the literary history that begins the volume. Written by Barbara Frischmuth, Elisabeth Reichart, and Erich Wolfgang Skwara, these six texts are accompanied by helpful introductions to each author. As a further aid for English-speaking readers, the original in German literary and critical texts are translated for the first time. Shadows of the Past allows students of European culture and comparative literature to experience a dramatic century in Austrian literature and history.

Amok and Other Stories

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Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1906548544
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Amok and Other Stories by : Stefan Zweig

Download or read book Amok and Other Stories written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DOCTOR IN the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia. In these four stories, Stefan Zweig shows his gift for the acute analysis of emotional dilemmas. His four tragic and moving cameos of the human condition are played out against cosmopolitan and colonial backgrounds in the first half of the twentieth century.

Silenced Facts

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004485813
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Silenced Facts by : Bianca Theisen

Download or read book Silenced Facts written by Bianca Theisen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the silence that continues to shroud Austria’s historical past, Austrian literature after 1950 wants to retrace an untold history that left its marks in mental schemata and cultural clichés. The question how literature can refer to the facts silenced by a political unconscious, the question of literary reference and reality description, lies at the core of Austrian literature since the 1950’s. This book traces the development of contemporary Austrian fiction from the 1950s to the 1990s, showing how the Vienna Group’s literary reductionism led to gesture of mere pointing in happening and performance. While strongly indebted to the experimental techniques of the Vienna Group, later Austrian authors such as Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Peter Rosei, and Gerhard Roth employ literary forms and extra-literary media prone to the indexical in an attempt to cut through the net of linguistic and cultural clichés, alluding to the microfascisms latent in common percepts, and indexing a reality that eludes plain description.

Modern Austrian Literature through the Lens of Adaptation

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Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208484
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Austrian Literature through the Lens of Adaptation by : Catriona Firth

Download or read book Modern Austrian Literature through the Lens of Adaptation written by Catriona Firth and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades postwar Austrian literature has been measured against and moulded into a series of generic categories and grand cultural narratives, from nostalgic ‘restoration’ literature of the 1950s through the socially critical ‘anti-Heimat’ novel to recent literary reckonings with Austria’s Nazi past. Peering through the lens of film adaptation, this book rattles the generic shackles imposed by literary history and provides an entirely new critical perspective on Austrian literature. Its original methodological approach challenges the primacy of written sources in existing scholarship and uses the distortions generated by the shift in medium as a productive starting point for literary analysis. Five case studies approach canonical texts in post-war Austrian literature by Gerhard Fritsch, Franz Innerhofer, Gerhard Roth, Elfriede Jelinek, and Robert Schindel, through close readings of their cinematic adaptations, concentrating on key areas of narratological concern: plot, narrative perspective, authorship, and post-modern ontologies. Setting the texts within the historical, cultural and political discourses that define the ‘Alpine Republic’, this study investigates fundamental aspects of Austrian national identity, such as its Habsburg and National Socialist legacies.

Austria in literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis Austria in literature by : International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association

Download or read book Austria in literature written by International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introducing Austria

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Book Synopsis Introducing Austria by : Lonnie Johnson

Download or read book Introducing Austria written by Lonnie Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000

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Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132765
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000 by : Katrin Maria Kohl

Download or read book A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000 written by Katrin Maria Kohl and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to history, politics, and popular culture. 20th-century Austrian literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil, Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is desirable to see how the Austrian literary scene -- and Austrian society itself -- shaped their writing. This volume thus surveys Austrian writers of drama, prose fiction, and lyric poetry; relates them to the distinctive history of modern Austria, a democratic republic that was overtaken by civil war and authoritarian rule, absorbed into Nazi Germany, and re-established as a neutral state; and examines their response to controversial events such as the collusion with Nazism, the Waldheim affair, and the rise of Haider and the extreme right. In addition to confronting controversy in the relations between literature, history, and politics, the volume examines popular culture in line with current trends. Contributors: Judith Beniston, Janet Stewart, Andrew Barker, Murray Hall, Anthony Bushell, Dagmar Lorenz, Juliane Vogel, Jonathan Long, Joseph McVeigh, Allyson Fiddler. Katrin Kohl is Lecturer in German and a Fellow of Jesus College, and Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature and a Fellow of The Queen's College, both at the University of Oxford.

Handbook of Austrian Literature

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Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Book Synopsis Handbook of Austrian Literature by : Frederick Ungar

Download or read book Handbook of Austrian Literature written by Frederick Ungar and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1973 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Austrian Writers and the Anschluss: Understanding the Past - Overcoming the Past

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis Austrian Writers and the Anschluss: Understanding the Past - Overcoming the Past by : Donald G. Daviau

Download or read book Austrian Writers and the Anschluss: Understanding the Past - Overcoming the Past written by Donald G. Daviau and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Austrian Life and Literature, 1780-1938

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ISBN 13 : 9780707301440
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Austrian Life and Literature, 1780-1938 by : Peter Branscombe

Download or read book Austrian Life and Literature, 1780-1938 written by Peter Branscombe and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Special issue - Austria in literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Major Figures of Turn-of-the-century Austrian Literature

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Publisher : Ariadne Press (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Book Synopsis Major Figures of Turn-of-the-century Austrian Literature by : Donald G. Daviau

Download or read book Major Figures of Turn-of-the-century Austrian Literature written by Donald G. Daviau and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this projected seven-volume series is to help make the major figures of Austrian literature from 1800 to the present accessible to an English-speaking audience. The introductions provide an overview of the cultural and political background of the age to furnish a broader context for the individual contributions. Bibliographies of primary and secondary texts enhance the value of the volumes as reference works. This volume covers the turbulent period between the two world wars. Despite the hardships endured by a country recovering from a severe war, and despite the prominence of politics, literature flourished to a degree that, surprisingly perhaps, makes this era one of the richest periods in Austrian literary history.

Major Figures of Contemporary Austrian Literature

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ISBN 13 : 9780685138892
Total Pages : 413 pages
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Book Synopsis Major Figures of Contemporary Austrian Literature by : Donald G. Daviau

Download or read book Major Figures of Contemporary Austrian Literature written by Donald G. Daviau and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: