Vienna's dreams of Europe
| Titel: | Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state / Katherine Arens |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York; London; Oxford; New Delhi; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012 |
| Umfang: | ix, 328 Seiten ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
New directions in German studies ; vol. 13 |
| ISBN: | 1441170219 ; 9781441170217 ; 1441142495 ; 9781441142498 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Introduction: Austria as a Challenge to Europe
- p. 1
- The persistence of Mitteleuropa in memory (but not in Austria)
- p. 8
- Austria's Europe of the imagination: A public space en procés
- p. 18
- Part 1
- An Austrian Imperial Europe
- p. 23
- 1
- Letters to the Ruling Class: The Public Spaces of Enlightenment
- p. 27
- The sources and their publics
- p. 30
- Translations and "German national culture"
- p. 39
- National theaters and the creation of new public spaces
- p. 46
- The Enlightenments of Europe
- p. 57
- 2
- Extending Europe's Enlightenment: Why Grillparzer Resists Weimar
- p. 61
- The poet, the critic, the scholar: Redefining public enlightenment
- p. 63
- Drama as public deliberation
- p. 73
- The drama of politics: Stories in public spaces
- p. 80
- Culture beyond the nation-state
- p. 84
- 3
- Revolution from the Prompter's Box: Rewriting Public Dreams of Political Morality
- p. 89
- An eighteenth-century comedy tradition
- p. 93
- Grillparzer: Changing the body politic
- p. 104
- Nestroy: The legitimacy of class structures
- p. 116
- Public change, historical continuity
- p. 125
- 4
- Eclipses, Floods, and Biedermeier Catastrophes: Public Spaces in extremis
- p. 129
- Genre painting and critical reading
- p. 132
- The eclipse and the butterflies: Dies irae?
- p. 140
- Revolution in Vienna
- p. 152
- Speaking politically in an era of fragmentation
- p. 159
- Part 2
- At the Margins of Europe, In the Heart of Europe
- p. 163
- 5
- Hofmannsthal's European Revolution: Recapturing a Space for Common Culture
- p. 167
- Lord Chandos and Bacon
- p. 170
- The cosmopolitanism of the lost nation
- p. 175
- Toward a revolutionary conservatism: The modern European
- p. 188
- 6
- Schnitzler and the Space of Public Discourse: The Politics of Decadence in fin de siècle Vienna
- p. 197
- The legacy of liberalism: Life in fin de siècle Vienna
- p. 202
- Puppets and pantomimes: Beyond the traditions
- p. 214
- Traditions as radical modernism
- p. 228
- 7
- Kasperl and the Wiener Gruppe: artmann, Bayer, and Handke
- p. 233
- From the Wiener Gruppe to Forum Stadtpark: The avant-garde in Austria
- p. 235
- Kasperl's new politics
- p. 241
- Electric Kasperl: Self-immolating literature succumbs to the public
- p. 247
- The late blooming Kasperl: Handke performs tradition
- p. 253
- Kasperl in the disorder of Europe
- p. 260
- 8
- A New Balkan Challenge: The Reemergence of Austria's Europe
- p. 263
- Habsburg redux: Where cultural politics and politics converge
- p. 265
- Handke: Cosmopolitan flâneur of Europe
- p. 273
- The rejoinder: Milo Dor
- p. 281
- Europe as a state (of mind)
- p. 287
- Afterword: Austria as Europe? The Art and Science of the Post-National Culture
- p. 291
- Bibliography
- p. 299
- Index of Names
- p. 321
