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1 online resource (274 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introductory Reflections on Cultural History ; CHAPTER ONE ; Urbanization and Civilization: Vienna and Budapest in the Nineteenth Century ; CHAPTER TWO ; The Image of the Germans and the Jews in the Hungarian Mirror of the Nineteenth Century ; CHAPTER THREE ; The Garden and the Workshop: Reflections on Fin-De-Siècle Culture in Vienna and Budapest ; CHAPTER FOUR ; The Alienation of Death in Budapest and Vienna at the Turn of the Century ; CHAPTER FIVE ; The Start of Endre Ady's Literary Career (1903-1905) ; CHAPTER SIX |
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The Cultural Role of the Vienna-Budapest Operetta CHAPTER SEVEN; Social Marginality and Cultural Creativity in Vienna and Budapest (1890-1914); EIGHT ; Vox Populi: Intercepted Letters in the First World War ; Notes ; Index |
| Summary |
A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figures as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Budapest produced such luminaries as Béla Bartók, Georg Lukács, and Michael and Karl Polanyi. However, as Péter Hanák shows in these vignettes of Fin-de-Siécle life, the intellectual and artistic vibrancy common to the two cities emerged from deeply different civic cultures. Hanák surveys the urban development o |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Austria & Hungary.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Civilization
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Intellectual life
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Vienna (Austria) -- Civilization
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Budapest (Hungary) -- Civilization
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Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life
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Budapest (Hungary) -- Intellectual life
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Austria -- Vienna
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Hungary -- Budapest
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400864836 |
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1400864836 |
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0691635498 |
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9780691635491 |
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