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Autore |
Parsons Nicholas |
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Vienna : a cultural history / / Nicholas Parsons |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (441 p.) |
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Vienna (Austria) History |
Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Village and World City; Part One: THE CAPUA OF MINDS: ""...OUR BELOVED AND HATED VIENNA""; Chapter One: VIENNA PRESERVED: THE PALIMPSEST; Chapter Two: VIENNA LIBERATA: CIVIC PRIDE AND MENTROPOLIS; Chapter Three: HOW TO BE VIENNESE; Chapter Four: MASTERS AND SERVANTS: A TALE OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; Chapter Five: LOVE-HATE AND AUSTROMASOCHISM; Chapter Six: CLICHÉS AND THE ART OF SEKF-IRONY; Chapter Seven: BACKING INTO THE FUTURE; Part Two: THE SPIRIT OF PLACE; Chapter Eight: WIEN: A PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL TOPOGRAPHY |
Chapter Sixteen: BAROQUE VIENNA Leopold I: ""The Baroque Emperor""; Abraham a Sancta Clara: Plague, Protestants, Jews and Turks; The Siege of Vienna (1683); The Baroque Building Boom; The ""Culture of the Senses"" and the ""Culture of the Word""; Baroque Profane Architecture: the Hofburg and Palaces for the Nobility; Three Baroque Churches; Other Baroque Monuments; Chapter Seventeen: VIENNA IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT; The Enlightenment in Central Europe; Musical Culture under Maria Theresia and Joseph II; The Enlightened Absolutism of Joseph II |
Some Sights Associated with Maria Theresia and Joseph IIChapter Eighteen: BIEDERMEIER VIENNA; The World of Biedermeier; Some Sights Associated with Biedermeier Culture; Chapter Nineteen: FROM REVOLUTION TO RINGSTRAßE: THE GRÜNDERZEIT (FOUNDERS PERIOD) AND RINGSTAßEN ERA; The Strauss Dynasty; The Ringstrassen Era; |
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Musical Innovation and Rivalries in Ringstrassen Vienna; Historicist Buildings along the Ringstrasse; Chapter Twenty: FIN-DE-SIÈCLE VIENNA; The Vienna Secession; Erotic Vienna; The Realists; The Coffee-house Literati; Some Sights Associated with fin-desiècle Vienna |
Chapter Twenty-One: REPUBLICS, DICTATORSHIPS AND WAR |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Foreword by Neal Acheson Part I: The Capua of Minds Vienna Preserved: the Palimpsest Vienna Liberata: Civic Pride and the Metropolis How to be Viennese Masters and Servants: a Tale of Cognitive Dissonance Love-Hate and Austromasochism Cliches and the Art of Self-Irony Backing into the Future Part II: The Spirit of Place Viennese Topography Notes on Wienerisch and Wienerlieder The Death Cult in Vienna The Life of the Phaeacians Part III: The Ages of the City The Romans on the Danube Light at the End of the Tunnel The Early Habsburgs Humanism, Refofrmation and Counter-Reform |
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