A history of Austrian literature 1918-2000
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A history of Austrian literature 1918-2000
(Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin)
Camden House, 2010, c2006
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Originally published: 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to history, politics, and popular culture.
20th-century Austrian literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil, Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is desirable to see how the Austrian literary scene -- and Austrian society itself -- shaped their writing. This volume thus surveys Austrian writers of drama, prose fiction, and lyric poetry; relates them to the distinctive history of modern Austria,a democratic republic that was overtaken by civil war and authoritarian rule, absorbed into Nazi Germany, and re-established as a neutral state; and examines their response to controversial events such as the collusion with Nazism, the Waldheim affair, and the rise of Haider and the extreme right. In addition to confronting controversy in the relations between literature, history, and politics, the volume examines popular culture in line with current trends.
Contributors: Judith Beniston, Janet Stewart, Andrew Barker, Murray Hall, Anthony Bushell, Dagmar Lorenz, Juliane Vogel, Jonathan Long, Joseph McVeigh, Allyson Fiddler.
Katrin Kohl is Lecturer in German and a Fellow of Jesus College, and Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German and a Fellow of The Queen's College, both at the University of Oxford.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Katrin Kohl and Ritchie Robertson
Drama in Austria, 1918-45 - Judith Beniston
Austrian Prose Fiction, 1918-45 - Ritchie Robertson
Publishers and Institutions in Austria, 1918-45 - Murray G. Hall
Popular Culture in Austria: Cabaret and Film, 1918-45 - Janet Stewart
The Politics of Austrian Literature, 1927-56 -
Austrian Poetry, 1918-2000 - Katrin Kohl
Writing in Austria after 1945: The Political, Institutional, and Publishing Context - Anthony Bushell
Austrian Responses to National Socialism and the Holocaust - Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
Drama in Austria, 1945-2000 - Juliane Vogel
Austrian Prose Fiction, 1945-2000 - Jonathan Long
Popular Culture in Austria, 1945-2000 - Joseph McVeigh
Shifting Boundaries: Responses to Multiculturalism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century - Allyson Fiddler
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index
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