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Well before the far-right resurgence that has most recently
transformed European politics, Austria's 1999 parliamentary
elections surprised the world with the unexpected success of the
Freedom Party of Austria and its charismatic leader, Joerg Haider.
The party's perceived xenophobia, isolationism, and unabashed
nationalism in turn inspired a massive protest movement that
expressed opposition not only through street protests but also in
novels, plays, films, and music. Through careful readings of this
varied cultural output, The Art of Resistance traces the aesthetic
styles and strategies deployed during this time, providing critical
context for understanding modern Austrian history as well as the
European protest movements of today.
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.
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 Language and Literature and a Fellow of The Queen's
College, both at the University of Oxford.
It is far too early to determine whether the noughties constitute a
distinct period of literary or cultural history with specific
characteristics all of their own. It is, nevertheless, timely and
illuminating to take a look at individual phenomena that
characterize this decade. The articles in this volume discuss
certain topical debates (for example surrounding the infamous
Austrokoffer literary project, or the debates about pension
provision and about religion), they identify emerging trends in
Austrian film (the hybridization of genres and the use of the
mock-documentary as political intervention), and they highlight new
departures in literary expression (recent Romani writing and the
rise of the multi-generational family novel). Other contributors to
Austrian Studies 19 identify literary engagement with features of
contemporary culture (the author as celebrity or the textual
exploration of sound and image in the digital age). Finally, The
Austrian Noughties volume does not neglect to probe new
publications of established authors such as Arno Geiger, Doron
Rabinovici, Robert Menasse, Christoph Ransmayr and Josef Winkler.
This first systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist
writer, Elfriede Jelinek, offers an extensive survey and analysis
of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary
techniques which characterise her writing. Background contextual
information on historical and literary developments is provided to
help the reader gain a better understanding of Jelinek's writing
and her place within current international debates on feminism and
literary theory.
Part of the New Directions in European Writing series, which aims
to present introductory studies of contemporary European writers,
this volume offers a systematic study of the controversial Austrian
feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek. It provides a survey and
analysis of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary
techniques which characterize the author's writing. Background
contextual information on historical and literary developments is
given to help the reader gain a better understanding of Jelinek's
writing and her place within current international debates on
feminism and literary theory.
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