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Vienna's dreams of Europe :

1441142495

1441170219

9781441142498

9781441170217

9781441118233

9781441175601

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Vienna's dreams of Europe :

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culture and identity beyond the nation-state /

Katherine Arens

ix, 328 pages ;

23 cm

New directions in German studies ;

vol. 13

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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"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"--

Austrian literature-- Austria-- Vienna-- History and criticism

Group identity-- Austria-- History

Group identity in literature

National characteristics, Austrian

National characteristics, European

Austria, Civilization

Austria, In literature

Vienna (Austria), Intellectual life, 19th century

Vienna (Austria), Intellectual life, 20th century

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