Dear Wiggies,

The following edited volume, which was published last month, may be of interest to colleagues and students working on contemporary Austrian literature, film, culture, and history: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/36704

Please see below for further details.

A 30% discount is available exclusively to WIGS members until 10 December 2018 – please see attached flyer.

 

Best wishes,

Katya

 
New Perspectives on Contemporary Austrian Literature and Culture 
Edited by Katya Krylova

(Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. Studies in Modern German and Austrian Literature series). 440 pp. ​

 

This volume brings together contributions arising from papers originally presented at the Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture International Conference held at the University of Nottingham in April 2015. It examines trends in contemporary Austrian literature, film and culture, predominantly over the past thirty years. This period has been one of great transformation in Austrian society, with the Waldheim affair of 1986–1988 marking the beginning of a belated process of confronting the country’s National Socialist past. The sixteen chapters of the volume analyse literary texts, films, memorial projects and Austria’s musical heritage, considering works by cultural practitioners operating both within and outside of Austria. The collection offers a multi-perspectival view on how contemporary Austria sees itself and how it is, in turn, seen by others from various vantage points.

 

 

Table of Contents

 

List of illustrations                                         

Acknowledgments                                                         

 

Introduction: Contemporary Austrian Literature and Culture

Katya Krylova                                    

 

Part I   Austria and the World: Transnational Perspectives

 

1. The New Cosmopolitanism in Second Republic Narratives: Revisiting the Vienna-‘Orient’ Connection

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz                                      

 

2. ‘You’ll Never Know the Old Vienna’: The Third Man (1949) as Historical Referent in Contemporary Austrian Culture and Literature

Anne-Marie Scholz                                                                                                                                         

 

3. Austria’s Ambiguous Smile: Transnational Perspectives on Austrian Belatedness in the Fiction of John Irving

Benedict Schofield                                                                                                                                          

 

4. Ariadne’s Thread: Storytelling, Digression and Flâneurship in the Recent Films of Ruth Beckermann

Katya Krylova                                                                                                    

 

5. „Mit möglichst großer literarischer und intellektueller Qualität ein Sartre zu werden“. Parodie und (Selbst)-Bestätigung in Robert Menasses Gegenwarts- und Intellektuellenkritik.

Valentina Serra                                                                                                                                

 

 

Part II  Space, Place, and Boundary Crossing in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film

 

6. Fortress Europe as Frontier: Adaptation of the Western Genre in Austrian Cinema

Nikhil Sathe                                                                                                                                                       

 

7. „Ganz Tirol ist eine Grenze“ und Felix Mitterer: Verkaufte Heimat

Ursula A. Schneider and Annette Steinsiek                                                                                          

 

8. The Visible Uncanny: Anna Kim’s Novels Frozen Time and Anatomy of a Night

Silke Schwaiger                                                

                                                                                                                               

9. ‘Leichen im Keller’: The Basement in New Austrian Film

Rachel Green                                    

 

10. Der Rhythmus als subversive Textstrategie. Gezeigt an Texten Thomas Bernhards und Ernst Jandls

Lydia Haider                                                                                                                                                      

 

11. Desires for a Third Space: A Critique on Jelinek’s Winterreise by Reading Georg Simmel’s ‘Exkurs über den Fremden’

Peter Höyng                                                                                                                                                      

 

 

Part III   Confronting the Nazi Past

 

12. Historische Traumata, Vergessen und Erinnerung: literarische Vergangenheitsdiskurse in der zeitgenössischen österreichischen Literatur

Magdolna Orosz                                                                                                                                              

 

13. The Grandmother in Recent Austrian Literature: Peter Henisch, Eine sehr kleine Frau (2007) and Melitta Breznik, Das Umstellformat (2002)

Petra M. Bagley                                                                                                                               

 

14. ‘Farben, die es auf dieser Welt nicht gibt’: Remembering Reality in Lenka Reinerová’s Late Prose

Traci S. O’Brien                                                                                                                                

 

15. Blurring Fiction with Reality: Robert Schindel’s comédie humaine of 1980s Vienna in Gebürtig and Der Kalte

Joseph W. Moser                                                                                                                                            

 

16. ‘Walzer für Nazis’: The Vienna Philharmonic and the Nazi Past

Lauren Freede

 

Notes on the Contributors                                          

Index                   

 

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Dr Katya Krylova

Lecturer in German, Film and Visual Culture

Associate Director, GWW Centre for Visual Culture

University of Aberdeen

King’s College

Taylor Building A

Aberdeen AB24 3UB

Tel: +44(0)1224 272491

 

Now available: Krylova, K., The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2017)

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