From High Priests to Desecrators - Contemporary Austrian Writers (Hardcover)

This collection of twelve studies of some of the leading Austrian writers of today, such as Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke and Thomas Bernhard, is ample evidence of a distinctive Austrian literary culture, even if its definition proves something of a chimaera. But are these writers high priests, enthroned by the established culture, or desecrators, angrily rejecting it? Some of the contributors to this volume unflinchingly assign their authors to one end of this spectrum or another, while others refuse even to entertain such a provocative schematization. 'The essays in this collection offer a good impression of the formal and thematic range of contemporary Austrian literature and include substantial pieces on Handke, Bernhard, Jelinek, Fried and Mitgutsch, while other contributions reveal the special quality of more idiosyncratic and marginal figures. Editors and contributors wisely avoid attempting to deduce from this variety a distinctive Austrian quality common to these authors, but they are where appropriate aware of the provocation some of them represent in an Austrian context' (Forum for Modern Language Studies).

General

Imprint:	Sheffield Academic Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Writing on Writing
Release date:	June 1993
First published:	June 1993
Editors:	Ricarda Schmidt • Moray McGowan
Dimensions:	230 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	440
ISBN-13:	978-1-85075-429-9
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-85075-429-2
Barcode:	9781850754299

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