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Author Neubauer, John, 1933-2015.

Title The fin-de-siècle culture of adolescence / John Neubauer
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction. Spring Awakening. The Anthropology and History of Adolescence. The Psychology of Adolescence Methodology and Theory in Cultural Studies. Organization -- 1. (Metaphoric) Identity. A Portrait of the Artist. Tonio Kroger. Stephen and Tonio. Young Torless -- 2. The Other. Fermina Marquez. Augustin Meaulnes. Max Demian. David Silbermann -- 3. Groups. Cliques. The Gang: Molnar's "The Pal Street Boys." Ethnic Bonds: Barres. Demian's Comrades in the Trenches -- 4. Adolescent Spaces. The Garden. Rooms. School. The Street -- 5. Literary Adolescence: An Overview. Adolescence in Literary History. Questions of Genre. Literature by Adolescents. Literature for Adolescents -- 6. Visualizing Adolescence. Edvard Munch. Die Brucke. Vienna. Adolescence and National Socialism -- 7. The Adolescence of Psychoanalysis. Framing Dora. The Adolescence of Karen Horney -- 8. The Psychology of Adolescence: 1890-1925. The Psychologists. Adolescent Imagination and Creativity. Eros and Sexuality. The Secret Vice. Homosexuality. Female Adolescence -- 9. Adolescence in School, Church, and Court. Schools. Church. Juvenile Delinquency -- 10. Youth Organizations and Movements. The French Adolescents. Boy Scouts. The German Youth Movement. "Migrant Birds" in the Trenches -- 11. Adolescence: The Fiction of Reality. Literature as Social Document? Once More Wandervogel. Once More Boy Scouts -- Appendix: Publications on Adolescence, 1881-1925
Summary Preoccupation with adolescence was one of the hallmarks of European culture at the turn of the century. In this absorbing book, John Neubauer examines the representation of adolescents in the literature, visual arts, psychology, and psychoanalytic theory of this period, and he considers the social institutions and youth movements that were formed to accommodate them. Neubauer argues that the depiction of adolescence in art and literature did not merely reflect its emergence as a middle-class phenomenon of industrial societies but helped to shape its social construction as well. Neubauer's discussion of adolescents in literature begins with the inner lives of some adolescent protagonists (Stephen Dedalus, Tonio Kroger and Young Torless) as told by adult narrators. His focus then becomes wider, moving to the adolescent as viewed by a peer-narrator, to the adolescent's cliques and gangs, and to the gardens, schools, and streets in which the narratives of adolescence are set. In the second half of the book he treats nonliterary subjects. Neubauer considers portrayals of adolescents by such artists as Munch, Kirchner, Heckel, Kokoschka, and Schiele. He discusses the narrative construction of Freud's case history of Dora and the problems of female adolescence in Horney's Adolescent Diaries, as well as questions of gender and homosexual identity in turn-of-the-century psychological theories of adolescence. The final chapters consider adolescence in school, church, the German Wandervogel, and the Boy Scouts, focusing on the literary and rhetorical means involved in institutionalizing adolescence
Analysis Arts Special subjects Adolescence
Arts Special subjects Adolescence
Notes Bibliography: p251-277. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-277) and index
Subject Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Teenagers in literature.
Adolescent -- in art
LC no. 91035085
ISBN 0300051034 alkaline paper
9780300051032 alkaline paper