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Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity

Holmes, Deborah and Silverman, L., eds. (2009) Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture . Camden House, Rochester, New York, 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-57113-420-2. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:30154)

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Abstract

Although beset by social, political, and economic instabilities, interwar Vienna was an exhilarating place, with pioneering developments in the arts and innovations in the social sphere. Research on the period long saw the city as a mere shadow of its former imperial self; more recently it has concentrated on high-profile individual figures or party politics. This volume of new essays widens the spectrum, stretching disciplinary boundaries to consider the cultural and social movements that shaped the city. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resulted not in an abandonment of the arts, but rather led to new forms of expression that were nevertheless conditioned by the legacies of earlier periods. The city's culture was caught between extremes, from neopositivism to cultural pessimism, Catholic mysticism to Austromarxism, late Enlightenment liberalism to rabid antisemitism. Concentrating on the paradoxes and often productive tensions that these created, the volume's eleven essays explore achievements and anxieties in fields ranging from modern dance, theater, music, film, and literature to economic, cultural, and racial policy. The volume will appeal to social, cultural, and political historians as well as to specialists in modern European literary and visual culture. Deborah Holmes is a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna. Lisa Silverman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Item Type: Book
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN441 Literary History
P Language and Literature > PT German literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Fiona Symes
Date Deposited: 15 Aug 2012 14:37 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:08 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/30154 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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