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Brussels 1900 Vienna examines the complex cultural networks between Austria and Belgium (1880-1930), and situates these interrelations within a wider European context. The collection covers various fields, including literature, translation, music, theatre, visual arts, café culture, and architecture.
Rewritten versions of contributions to an international conference held at the University of Antwerp in May 1992. Starting point for the conference was the vagueness of the very terms 'modernism' and 'modernity'. In the first section a group of comparatists address the theoretical and terminological problems of modernism. Practical readings of modernist writers; discussions of different modernist movements; and, the work of critics who have contributed to debates about modernism make up the second section. The third section looks at the problem of modernism from an interartistic and interdisciplinary perspective.
This volume studies elements of Austro-Hungarian or Central European culture that were common across linguistic, national, and ethnic communities, and shows how some of these commonalities survived or were transformed by the turmoil of the 20th century: two world wars, a major depression between the wars, Stalinism and the Iron Curtain
Volume one of a comprehensive series on the Dreyfus Affair, this account chronicles for the first time in English and day by day, the drama that destabilized French society (1894-1906) and reverberated across the world. A deliberate miscarriage of justice, the public degradation of an innocent Jewish officer and his incarceration on Devil's Island, espionage, intrigue, media pressure, vehement antisemitism and political skulduggery - topics so relevant to our times - are set within a broad historical context. Meticulous research, new translations of key documents, a wealth of primary sources and illustrations and a select bibliography make this an indispensable reference work.
Thanks to its historical, theoretical, and methodological dimensions, this book is unique, both in Europe and in the USA. It brings together researchers from across Europe to explain how comparative literature works, both on an institutional and a technical level, in the country in which they teach. The contributions also define the characteristics of European comparative literature on a continental level. From Austria to Ukraine, by way of Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland, this book offers an expansive panorama, placing great emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. Moreover, it relates both to the postcolonial and post-Soviet present and to the future of comparative literature: it is a handbook, but also a laboratory.
In the book establish an initial assessment on the life of cinemas belonging to the Instituts français and the Alliances françaises.
Marlen Haushofer ist eine der bedeutendsten österreichischen Autorinnen der Nachkriegsgeneration und mit einiger Verzögerung inzwischen als solche anerkannt. Ihrem Werk – den fünf Romanen sowie einer Reihe von Erzählungen und Kinderbüchern – widmen sich in diesem Buch zehn ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten, die Haushofers Themen und Kontexte mit perspektivischer Vielfalt ausleuchten. Der Roman Die Wand hat seit seinem Erscheinen ein breites internationales Echo und mehrere Wiederentdeckungen erfahren. Als narratives Lockdown-Experiment ist er aktueller denn je. Auch das übrige Werk der Autorin ist ästhetisch bemerkenswert und rezeptionsgeschichtlich aufschlussreich. Zu Haushofers zentralen Themen zählen die Vertreibung aus dem prekären Paradies der Kindheit und das Fortwirken der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit. In formaler Hinsicht erweisen sich die perspektivische Beschränkung auf die Erlebniswelt ihrer Figuren und die Präsenz phantastischer und märchenhafter Elemente als Konstanten.