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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.
Unprecedented in scope and critical perspective, American and the
Germans presents an analysis of the history of the Germans in
America and of the turbulent relations between Germany and the
United States. The two volumes bring together research in such
diverse fields as ethnic studies, political science, linguistics,
and literature, as well as American and German History.Contributors
are leading American and German scholars, such as Kathleen Neils
Conzen, Joshua A. Fishman, Peter Gay, Harold Jantz, Gunter
Moltmann, Steven Muller, Theo Sommer, Fritz Stern, Herbert A.
Strauss, Gerhard L. Weinberg, and Don Yoder.These scholars assess
the ethnicity and acculturation of German-Americans from the
seventeenth century to the twentieth; the state of German language
and culture in the United States; World War I as a turning point in
relations between German and America; the political, economic, and
cultural relations before and after World War II; and the
midcentury state of affairs between the two countries. Special
chapters are devoted to the Pennsylvania Germans, Jewish-German
immigration after 1933, Americanism in Germany, and a critical
appraisal of current research.American and the Germans presents a
fascinating introduction to the subject as well as new perspectives
for a more critical and comprehensive study of its many facets. It
can be used as a reader in the fields of German studies, American
studies, political science, European and German history, American
history, ethnic studies, and German and American literature.
Although each of the 49 contributions reflects the state of current
scholarship, they are formulated with the uninitiated reader in
mind.
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.
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The Radio Family (Paperback)
Ingeborg Bachmann; Translated by Mike Mitchell; Afterword by Joseph McVeigh
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R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war
German literature's most important novelists, poets, and
playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary
circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her
poems, short stories, and novels, and won numerous awards for her
work. Sadly, her life ended abruptly in October of 1973 when a lit
cigarette burned down her apartment causing Bachmann to suffer
severe burns that would eventually prove fatal. The author was only
forty-seven, and her tragic death left what could have been a long
and lustrous writing career regretfully stunted. Nearly twenty
years after her death, during an estate sale in Vienna, fifteen
episodes of the popular Viennese radio drama The Radio Family were
discovered. Remarkably, they happened to be written by Ingeborg
Bachmann herself, who had been a writer on the show just after she
graduated university. The Radio Family was a popular radio soap
opera broadcast in the American sector of occupied Vienna in the
1950s. The program focused on a middle-class Viennese family and
their everyday life. Topics ranged from birthday parties and
holiday plans to profiteering and currency fraud in the commercial
sector, and Austrians' involvement in the Nazi past. All fifteen
scripts have now been compiled and masterfully translated,
revealing an early and significant piece of Bachmann's body of
work, while simultaneously offering a rare glimpse into Vienna's
quotidian history.
The art of German printmaker and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz
(1867-1945) is famously empathetic; Kollwitz imbued her prints,
drawings, and sculpture with eloquent and often painful commentary
on the human condition, especially the horrors of war. This
insightful book, the first English-language catalogue on Kollwitz
in more than two decades, offers the singular opportunity to
examine her work against the tumultuous backdrop of World Wars I
and II. The societal cost of war became an enduring subject for
Kollwitz after her youngest son died on the battlefield in Flanders
in 1914. She dedicated much of the remainder of her career to
creating images that questioned the efficacy of war, exposed its
devastation, and promoted peace. The essays discuss the motifs she
developed in this pursuit-young widows, grieving parents alongside
maternal figures that serve as defenders, guardians, activists, and
mourners-within the context of German visual culture from 1914 to
1945.
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