Title Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state / Katherine Arens

Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series New directions in German studies ; volume 13 New directions in German studies ; volume 13. Contents Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Letters to the Ruling Class: Enlightening Two National Cultures -- Chapter 2: Classicism and the Tyranny of the Moderns: How Grillparzer Resists Weimar -- Chapter 3: Revolution from the Prompter's Box: Grillparzer and Nestroy in Vienna -- Chapter 4: Eclipses, Floods, and Other Biedermeier Catastrophes: The theatrum mundi of Revolution -- Chapter 5: Hofmannsthal's European Revolution: The Space of Common Culture -- Chapter 6: Schnitzer and the Space of Public Discourse in Fin de siècle Vienna -- Chapter 7: The Persistence of Kasperl in Memory: Artmann, Bayer and Handke -- Chapter 8: Lost Maps, Lost Europe?: "The Balkans Begin at the Gürtel" -- Chapter 9: Austria's Millennial Europe: The Vanishing of Mitteleuropa -- Afterword: Austria as Europe?: Post-National Cultural Studies -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Vienna's Dreams of Europe argues for 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-represent 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, a culture mixing various nationalities, ethnicities and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. To challenge 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 publics as European. Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism, and working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Austrian literature -- Austria -- Vienna -- History and criticism Group identity in literature. Group identity -- Austria -- History National characteristics, Austrian. National characteristics, European. Literary studies: general. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. Austrian literature Civilization Group identity Group identity in literature Intellectual life Literature National characteristics, Austrian National characteristics, European Kulturelle Identität Literatur Europa Motiv Multikulturelle Gesellschaft SUBJECT Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Austria -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009662 Austria -- In literature Subject Austria Austria -- Vienna Österreich Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441175601 1441175601 9781441118233 1441118233 9781628926811 1628926813

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