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" Vienna's dreams of Europe : "
Katherine Arens
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BL
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643357
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Arens, Katherine,1953-
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Vienna's dreams of Europe : : culture and identity beyond the nation-state /\ Katherine Arens
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| Series Statement
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New directions in German studies ;; vol. 13
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ix, 328 pages ;; 23 cm
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9781441142498
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: 1441142495
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: 9781441170217
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: 1441170219
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9781441118233
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9781441175601
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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"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"--
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Austrian literature-- Austria-- Vienna-- History and criticism
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Group identity in literature
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Group identity-- Austria-- History
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National characteristics, Austrian
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National characteristics, European
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Vienna (Austria), Intellectual life, 19th century
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Vienna (Austria), Intellectual life, 20th century
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Austria, Civilization
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Austria, In literature
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| Dewey Classification
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943.6/1304
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DB851.A76 2015
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