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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511900703321

Autore

Arens Katherine <1953->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015

ISBN

1-4411-1823-3

1-62892-681-3

1-4411-7560-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Collana

New directions in German studies ; ; v. 13

Disciplina

943.6/1304

Soggetti

Austrian literature - Austria - Vienna - History and criticism

Group identity in literature

Group identity - Austria - History

National characteristics, Austrian

National characteristics, European

Electronic books.

Austria Civilization

Austria In literature

Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life 19th century

Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.