LEADER 03744nam 22005892 450 001 9911008451603321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-282-94701-X 010 $a9786612947018 010 $a1-57113-800-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571138002 035 $a(CKB)2670000000067356 035 $a(OCoLC)694362908 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10437804 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000420415 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11295563 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000420415 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10391742 035 $a(PQKB)10199404 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571138002 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003751 035 $a(DE-B1597)676069 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571138002 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000067356 100 $a20120822d2008|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn the shadow of empire $eAustrian experiences of modernity in the writings of Musil, Roth, and Bachmann /$fMalcolm Spencer 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (254 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-57113-474-3 311 08$a1-57113-387-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Negotiating modernity in the Austrian context -- Modernity, nationalism, and the Austrian crisis -- Vater, Landesvater, Gottvater: Musil and the ancien re?gime -- Sepp, Feuermaul, and Schmeisser: enemies of the empire in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- "Europe is committing suicide": Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch -- "How much home does a person need?": Ingeborg Bachmann's "Drei Wege zum See" -- Conclusion: Austria and the transition to modernity. 330 $aAustria was not the only European country whose old order disintegrated in the early twentieth century, giving way to the crisis of modernity, nor the only country whose literature bears the marks of this crisis. But modernity's onset was experienced differently in Austria: in the words of Karl Kraus, it served as 'laboratory for the fall of world civilization.' This book examines the crisis as reflected in fiction written by Robert Musil, Joseph Roth, and Ingeborg Bachmann between 1920 and 1970. After examining the elusive concept of modernity, Malcolm Spencer looks at the responses of the three authors to the central themes of modernity: fragmentation, nationalism, the end of empire, and ambivalence. Chapters on Musil examine his understanding of the 'ancien re?gime' in Austria and his analysis of the ideological stage of modernity. Spencer then considers Roth's more negative reaction, showing the post-imperial novel 'Radetzkymarsch' to be a nostalgic response to the collapse of Habsburg Austria and the rise of fascism. The final chapter looks again at the end of empire, not in the work of writers who lived through it, but through that of one who experienced it as a historical and cultural legacy: Ingeborg Bachmann. Malcolm Spencer is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) 606 $aAustrian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAustrian literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a830.9/00914 686 $aGM 4904$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aSpencer$b Malcolm$f1954-$01828238 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008451603321 996 $aIn the shadow of empire$94396434 997 $aUNINA