Vienna 1900
From Altenberg to Wittgenstein

Edited by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson

Austrian Studies 1

Edinburgh University Press

7 June 1990  •  240pp

ISBN: 978-0-748601-75-2 (hardback) (out of print)

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This is the first volume in a multi-disciplinary series devoted to making recent research in Austrian studies available to an international readership. Articles include work on Peter Altenburg's fabricated photographs and unpublished sketches, Karl Kraus's Oscar Wilde, the Austrian Women's Movement, Schnitler's collection of press-cuttings and the writings of Kraus, Freud, Wittels and Irma Karczewska. Review articles assess the latest work on Wittgenstein, Herzl and Freud's Jewish identity. The work should interest academics and graduate students in European history and culture, Jewish studies, European literature and the hisory of psychology, as well as literary critics, cultural historians and the general reader interested in German language culture.

Contents:

Articles
1

Between Modernism and Postmodernism: The Viennese Identity Crisis
Jacques Le Rider

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12

Karl Kraus's Oscar Wilde: Race, Sex, and Difference
Sander L. Gilman

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28

Aus einem Skizzenbuch: Five Unpublished Sketches by Peter Altenberg
Andrew Barker

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47

Peter Altenberg's Fabricated Photographs: Literature and Photography in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Leo A. Lensing

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73

Feminism as a Vocation: Motives for Joining the Austrian Women's Movement
Harriet Anderson

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87

The 'Child-Woman': Kraus, Freud, Wittels, and Irma Karczewska
Edward Timms

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108

The Tendentious Reception of Professor Bernhardi: Documentation in Schnitzler's Collection of Press-Cuttings
W. E. Yates

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126

Quo vadis, Austria? Gustav Sieber's Conundrum
Ian Foster

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Review Articles
149

Wittgenstein in Context
J. P. Stern

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170

Herzl and Zionism
Robert Wistrich

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174

Freud's Jewish Identity
Sander L. Gilman

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177

Vienna 1900: The Need for New Editions
Reinhard Urbach

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183

Review of Claudio Magris, Donau: Biographie eines Flusses
W. G. Sebald

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184

Review of Thomas Bauman, W. A. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Peter Branscombe

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184

Review of Tim Carter, W. A. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Peter Branscombe

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187

Review of Alice M. Hanson, Die zensurierte Muse: Musikleben im Wiener Biedermeier
Ewan West

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188

Review of Mark G. Ward, From Vormärz to Fin de Siecle: Essays in Nineteenth-century Austrian Literature
Margaret Jacobs

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189

Review of Jean Paul Bled, Franz Joseph: 'Der letzte Monarch der alten Schule'
Steven Beller

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190

Review of Hermann Bahr, Prophet der Moderne: Tagebücher 1888-1904
Harry Zohn

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192

Review of Gustav Mahler, Briefe and Unbekannte Briefe
Andrew Barker

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192

Review of Herta Blaukopf, Kurt Blaukopf, Die Wiener Philharmoniker: Wesen, Werden, Wirken eines großen Orchesters
Andrew Barker

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194

Review of Donald P. Spence, The Freudian Metaphor: Toward Paradigm Change in Psychoanalysis
Paul Connerton

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196

Review of Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, The Blossoming Thorn: Georg Trakl's Poetry of Atonement
Andrew Webber

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198

Review of Philip Payne, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities: A Critical Study
Dagmar Barnouw

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198

Review of Philip Payne, Robert Musil's Works, 1906-1924: A Critical Introduction
Dagmar Barnouw

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198

Review of Aldo Venturelli, Robert Musil und das Projekt der Moderne
Dagmar Barnouw

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198

Review of Michiko Mae, Motivation und Liebe: Zum Strukturprinzip der Vereinigung bei Robert Musil
Dagmar Barnouw

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200

Review of Stephen D. Dowden, Hermann Broch: Literature, Philosophy, Politics
David Midgley

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200

Review of Monika Ritzer, Hermann Broch und die Kulturkrise des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts
David Midgley

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200

Review of Joseph Peter Strelka, Flucht und Exit: Geschichten und Berichte aus zwei Jahrhunderten
David Midgley

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204

Review of Elias Canetti, The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood
Geoffrey Butler

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205

Review of Klaus Amann, Der Anschluß österreichischer Schriftsteller an das Dritte Reich: institutionelle und bewußtseinsgeschichtliche Aspekte
W. E. Yates

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207

Review of Konrad Lorenz, The Waning of Humaneness
Ritchie Robertson

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208

Review of Milo Dor, Die Leiche im Keller: Dokumente des Widerstands gegen Dr. Kurt Waldheim
Leslie Bodi

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213

Obituary: Erich Fried (1921-1988)
Neal Ascherson

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215

Obituary: Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)
W. G. Sebald

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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), Vienna 1900: From Altenberg to Wittgenstein (= Austrian Studies, 1 (1990))

First footnote reference: 35 Vienna 1900: From Altenberg to Wittgenstein, ed. by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson (= Austrian Studies, 1 (1990)), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Timms and Robertson, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds). 1990. Vienna 1900: From Altenberg to Wittgenstein (= Austrian Studies, 1)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Timms and Robertson 1990: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Timms and Robertson 1990: 21.

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