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Structures of Knowing - Psychologies of the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, 1989 ed.): Katherine Arens Structures of Knowing - Psychologies of the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
Katherine Arens
R4,356 Discovery Miles 43 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Belle Necropolis - Ghosts of Imperial Vienna (Hardcover, New edition): Katherine Arens Belle Necropolis - Ghosts of Imperial Vienna (Hardcover, New edition)
Katherine Arens
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siecle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume argues that "Habsburg nostalgia" is anything but backward looking: instead, images from this glittering Habsburg past become evidence of a culture's sophisticated sense of how and why history is made, in both official and popular spheres. Including the first translation of an original account of Crown Prince Rudolf's suicide at Mayerling in 1889, Belle Necropolis argues for Austria's continued reuse of its own history to point the way toward the future rather than simply memorializing a past that only exists as living memories of shared stories, not as a truth in itself. Case studies included here range from imperial stereotypes before 1900 through their adaptations in the film 1. April 2000 and today's musicals, and from the politics of representing Austria since Rebecca West up through Schorske's master narrative of the Ringstrasse. Through these studies, Habsburg culture emerges as a culture of commemoration that uses its own past to overcome the limits of a small country seeking a role on the contemporary world stage.

Structures of Knowing - Psychologies of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989):... Structures of Knowing - Psychologies of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
Katherine Arens
R4,272 Discovery Miles 42 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Paperback): Thomas Kovach A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Paperback)
Thomas Kovach; Contributions by Andreas Thomasberger, Benjamin K Bennett, Douglas A. Joyce, Ellen Ritter, …
R1,158 Discovery Miles 11 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New essays by leading scholars re-examining major aspects of the work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the great Austrian poet and dramatist. The Viennese poet, dramatist, and prose writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was among the most celebrated men of letters in the German language at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. His early poems established his reputation as the `child prodigy' of German letters, and a few remain among the most anthologized in the German language. His early lyric dramas prompted no less a judge than T. S. Eliot to pronounce him, along with Yeats and Claudel,one of the three European writers who had done the most to revive verse drama in modern times. His critical essays attest to the subtle powers of discrimination that marked him as one of the most discerning literary critics of the day. And yet he underwent a crisis of cognition and language around 1900, and from then on turned away from poetry and lyric drama almost entirely, concentrating instead on more public forms of drama such as the libretti for Richard Strauss's operas, the plays written for the Salzburg Festival (of which he was a co-founder), and on discursive and narrative prose. The body of work that Hofmannsthal left behind at his premature death is matched in its variety, breadth, and quality by that of only a handful of German writers. And yet posterity has not been kind to his reputation: those who admired the early work for its aesthetic refinement disdained his turn to more popular forms,whereas many of those who might have been receptive to the more committed and public stance of his later work were put off by his conservative politics. This volume of new essays by top Hofmannsthal scholars re-examines his extraordinarily rich and complex body of work, assessing his stature in German and world literature in the new century. Contributors: Katherine Arens, Judith Beniston, Benjamin Bennett, Nina Berman, Joanna Bottenberg, DouglasA. Joyce, Thomas A. Kovach, Ellen Ritter, Hinrich C. Seeba, Andreas Thomasberger, W. Edgar Yates. Professor Thomas Kovach is Head of the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona.

Vienna's Dreams of Europe - Culture and Identity Beyond the Nation-State (Paperback): Katherine Arens Vienna's Dreams of Europe - Culture and Identity Beyond the Nation-State (Paperback)
Katherine Arens
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward 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-represented 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, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. Challenging 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 public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism.

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