UID:
edocfu_9960119300502883
Format:
1 online resource (205 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-283-62021-9
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9786613932662
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1-57113-831-5
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
The literary flair of fin-de-siècle Vienna lived on after 1918 in the First Austrian Republic even as writers grappled with the consequences of a lost war and the vanished Habsburg Empire. Reacting to historical and political issues often distinct from those in Weimar Germany, Austrian literary culture, though frequently associated with Jewish writers deeply attached to the concept of an independent Austria, reflected the republic's ever-deepening antisemitism and the growing clamor for political union with Germany. Spanning the two momentous decades between the fall of the empire in 1918 and the Nazi 'Anschluss' in 1938, this book explores work by canonical writers such as Schnitzler, Kraus, Roth, and Werfel and by now-forgotten figures such as the pacifist Andreas Latzko, the arch-Nazi Bruno Brehm, and the fervently Jewish Soma Morgenstern. Also taken into account are Ernst Weiss's 'Hitler' novel 'Der Augenzeuge' and 1930s works about First Republic Austria by the German Communist writers Anna Seghers and Friedrich Wolf. Andrew Barker's book paints a varied and vivid picture of one of the most challenging and underresearched periods in twentieth-century cultural history. Andrew Barker is Emeritus Professor of Austrian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Preamble: A cold sun -- Soldiers' tales: Andreas Latzko, Ernst Weiss -- The Habsburg legacy: Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel, Joseph Roth -- "Hakenkreuz" and "Davidstern": Bruno Brehm, Soma Morgenstern -- Charting February 1934: Karl Kraus, Anna Seghers, Friedrich Wolf, Alois Vogel -- "Finis Austriae"?: Joseph Roth, Ernst Weiss, Heimito Von Doderer.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-531-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781571138316
