03686nam 22005053u 450 991066434660332120221004221029.00-19-970454-6(CKB)3710000000506619(EBL)431182(OCoLC)870243719(MiAaPQ)EBC431182(MiAaPQ)EBC5745657(Au-PeEL)EBL5745657(PPN)229057403(EXLCZ)99371000000050661920151123d2008|||| uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVienna a cultural history /Nicholas ParsonsOxford Oxford University Press, USA20081 online resource (441 p.)CityscapesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-537607-2 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 TOPOGRAPHYChapter 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 IISome 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; 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 ViennaChapter Twenty-One: REPUBLICS, DICTATORSHIPS AND WARForeword 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-ReformCityscapesVienna (Austria)HistoryVienna (Austria)Intellectual life943.6/13Parsons Nicholas1252745AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910664346603321Vienna2904417UNINA