Vienna : a cultural history / / Nicholas Parsons

• Autore: Parsons Nicholas
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (441 p.)
• Disciplina: 943.6/13
• Soggetto geografico: Vienna (Austria) History; Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Vienna
• ISBN: 0-19-970454-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910664346603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cityscapes