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Although beset by social, political, and economic instabilities,
interwar Vienna was an exhilarating place, with pioneering
developments in the arts and innovations in the social sphere.
Research on the period long saw the city as a mere shadow of its
former imperial self; more recently it has concentrated on
high-profile individual figures or party politics. This volume of
new essays widens the view, stretching disciplinary boundaries to
consider the cultural and social movements that shaped the city.
The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resulted not in an
abandonment of the arts, but rather led to new forms of expression
that were nevertheless conditioned by the legacies of earlier
periods. The city's culture was caught between extremes, from
neopositivism to cultural pessimism, Catholic mysticism to
Austro-Marxism, late Enlightenment liberalism to rabid
antisemitism. Concentrating on the paradoxes and often productive
tensions that these created, the volume's twelve essays explore
achievements and anxieties in fields ranging from modern dance,
theater, music, film, and literature to economic, cultural, and
racial policy. The volume will appeal to social, cultural, and
political historians as well as to specialists in modern European
literary and visual culture. Contributors: Andrea Amort, Andrew
Barker, Alys X. George, Deborah Holmes, Jon Hughes, Birgit Lang,
Wolfgang Maderthaner, Therese Muxeneder, Birgit Peter, Lisa
Silverman, Edward Timms, Robert Vilain, John Warren, Paul
Weindling. Deborah Holmes is Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna. Lisa
Silverman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
This is an edition of the first dictionary of a Creole language,
compiled in 1767/8, together with a more or less contemporaneous
vocabulary of that same language, the Negerhollands spoken on the
Virgin Islands, under Danish rule at that period. There are more
than 3400 entries, varying greatly in nature and length and ranging
from a simple translation of the respective German lemma to
extended articles containing examples of phraseology and syntax and
also providing metalinguistic commentaries. The dictionary is a
major document of the early stages of a Creole language. The same
is true to a lesser extent of the vocabulary, which displays
obvious Danish influences. Over and above this, the dictionary is
also of outstanding value as a testimony of early 18th century
lexicography in the German-speaking area.
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