Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state / Katherine Arens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arens, Katherine, 1953- author.

Series:

New directions in German studies ; Volume 13.

New directions in German studies ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austrian literature--Austria--Vienna--History and criticism.

Austrian literature.

Group identity in literature.

Group identity--Austria--History.

Group identity.

National characteristics, Austrian.

National characteristics, European.

Austria--Civilization.

Austria.

Austria--In literature.

Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Vienna (Austria).

Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Letters to the Ruling Class: Enlightening Two National Cultures

Chapter 2: Classicism and the Tyranny of the Moderns: How Grillparzer Resists Weimar

Chapter 3: Revolution from the Prompter's Box: Grillparzer and Nestroy in Vienna

Chapter 4: Eclipses, Floods, and Other Biedermeier Catastrophes: The theatrum mundi of Revolution

Chapter 5: Hofmannsthal's European Revolution: The Space of Common Culture

Chapter 6: Schnitzer and the Space of Public Discourse in Fin de siècle Vienna

Chapter 7: The Persistence of Kasperl in Memory: Artmann, Bayer and Handke

Chapter 8: Lost Maps, Lost Europe?: "The Balkans Begin at the Gürtel"

Chapter 9: Austria's Millennial Europe: The Vanishing of Mitteleuropa

Afterword: Austria as Europe?: Post-National Cultural Studies

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441118233

1441118233

9781628926811

1628926813

9781441175601

1441175601

OCLC:

922698288