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Interwar Vienna : culture between tradition and modernity / edited by Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman.

Van Pelt Library DB851 .I425 2009
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Holmes, Deborah, 1973-
Silverman, Lisa, 1969-
Series:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Vienna (Austria)--Civilization--20th century.
Vienna (Austria).
Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Vienna (Austria)--History--1918-.
Austrian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Austrian literature.
Physical Description:
vi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.
Contents:
Introduction : Beyond the coffeehouse: Vienna as a cultural center between the World Wars / Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman
Cultural parameters between the wars: a reassessment of the Vienna Circles / Edward Timms
"weiße Strüpfe oder neue Kutten": cultural decline in Vienna in the 1930s / John Warren
"Wiener Kreise": Jewishness, politics, and culture in interwar Vienna / Wolfgang Maderthaner and Lisa Silverman
A city regenerated: eugenics, race, and welfare in interwar Vienna / Paul Weindling
Free dance in interwar Vienna / Andrea Amort
Hollywood on the Danube? Vienna and Austrian silent film of the 1920s / Alys X. George
Between tradition and a longing for the modern: theater in interwar Vienna / Birgit Peter
The hegemony of German music: Schoenberg's Vienna as the musical center of the German-speaking world / Therese Muxeneder
Anticipating Freud's pleasure principle? A reading of Ernst Weiss's war story "Franta Zlin" (1919) / Andrew Barker
Facts and fiction: Rudolf Brunngraber, Otto Neurath, and Viennese Neue Sachlichkeit / Jon Hughes
The VIennese legacy of Casanova: the late erotic writings of Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Blei / Birgit Lang
An Englishman abroad: literature, politics, and sex in John Lehmann's writings on Vienna in the 1930s / Robert Vilain.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781571134202
1571134204
OCLC:
299710210

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