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

• Autore: Arens Katherine <1953->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 943.6/1304
• Soggetto topico: Austrian literature - Austria - Vienna - History and criticism; Group identity in literature; Group identity - Austria - History; National characteristics, Austrian; National characteristics, European
• Soggetto geografico: Austria Civilization; Austria In literature; Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life 19th century; Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life 20th century
• Classificazione: LIT004170
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Vienna's dreams of Europe
• ISBN: 1-4411-1823-3; 1-62892-681-3; 1-4411-7560-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797654603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New directions in German studies ; ; Volume 13.