A companion to the works of Arthur Schnitzler / edited by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz.

Format:

Book

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schnitzler, Arthur, 1862-1931--Criticism and interpretation.

Schnitzler, Arthur.

Schnitzler, Arthur, 1862-1931.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY ; Woodbridge, UK : Camden House, 2003.

Summary:

This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler's productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy. World War I, the First Austrian Republic, and the rise of National Socialism, and he realized earlier than many of his contemporaries the threat that racist anti-Semitism posed to the then almost complete assimilation of Austrian Jews. His writings also reflect the irresolvable conflict between emerging feminism and the relentless "scientific" discourse of misogyny, and chronicle the collapse of traditional social structures at the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the struggles of the newly founded republic. In the 1950s Schnitzler's powerful literary record assumed model character for Viennese Jewish intellectuals born after the Shoah, and his portrayal of gender relations and role expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Schnitzler's Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this Companion volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler's dramas and prose works from contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria's multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change.

Contents:

The Author and His Audiences

The Social and Political Context of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen in Berlin, Vienna, and New York: 1900-1933 / Gerd K. Schneider 27

"... nothing against Arthur Schnitzler himself ...": Interpreting Schnitzler on Stage in Austria in the 1950s and 1960s / Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner 59

Contexts

The Problem and Challenge of Jewishness in the City of Schnitzler and Anna O. / Elizabeth Loentz 79

Which Way Out? Schnitzler's and Salten's Conflicting Responses to Cultural Zionism / Iris Bruce 103

The Writings

The Self as Process in an Era of Transition: Competing Paradigms of Personality and Character in Schnitzler's Works / Dagmar C. G. Lorenz 129

Schnitzler's Turn to Prose Fiction: The Depiction of Consciousness in Selected Narratives / Felix Tweraser 149

A Century of Intrigue: The Dramatic Works of Arthur Schnitzler / Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler 187

Arthur Schnitzler's Puppet Plays / G. J. Weinberger 205

"Medizin ist eine Weltanschauung": On Schnitzler's Medical Writings / Hillary Hope Herzog 227

Schnitzler and the Discourse of Gender in Fin-de-siecle Vienna / Katherine Arens 243

The Overaged Adolescents of Schnitzler's Der Weg ins Freie / John Neubauer 265

"Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image": Crises of Masculinity in Schnitzler's Die Fremde / Imke Meyer 277

The Power of the Gaze: Visual Metaphors in Schnitzler's Prose Works and Dramas / Susan C. Anderson 303

Suicide as Performance in Dr. Schnitzler's Prose / Eva Kuttenberg 325

The Legacy

The Difficult Rebirth of Cosmopolitanism: Schnitzler and Contemporary Austrian Literature / Matthias Konzett 349.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-398) and index.

ISBN:

1571132139

OCLC:

51093466