04550nam 22007211 450 991051190070332120150408163855.01-4411-1823-31-62892-681-31-4411-7560-110.5040/9781628926811(CKB)3710000000483896(EBL)4007407(SSID)ssj0001556419(PQKBManifestationID)16178980(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001556419(PQKBWorkID)13107794(PQKB)11480917(MiAaPQ)EBC4007407(OCoLC)922698288(UtOrBLW)bpp09259457(EXLCZ)99371000000048389620150930d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVienna's dreams of Europe culture and identity beyond the nation-state /Katherine ArensNew York :Bloomsbury Academic,2015.1 online resource (339 p.)New directions in German studies ;v. 13Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-7021-9 1-4411-4249-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.New directions in German studies ;Volume 13.Austrian literatureAustriaViennaHistory and criticismGroup identity in literatureGroup identityAustriaHistoryNational characteristics, AustrianNational characteristics, EuropeanLiterary studies: generalAustriaCivilizationAustriaIn literatureVienna (Austria)Intellectual life19th centuryVienna (Austria)Intellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.Austrian literatureHistory and criticism.Group identity in literature.Group identityHistory.National characteristics, Austrian.National characteristics, European.943.6/1304Arens Katherine1953-711750UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910511900703321Vienna's dreams of Europe2552287UNINA