Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state /

Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state /

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Author / Creator:	Arens, Katherine, 1953- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. ©2015
Description:	ix, 328 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New directions in German studies ; vol. 13 New directions in German studies ; v. 13.
Subject:	Austrian literature -- Austria -- Vienna -- History and criticism. Group identity in literature. Group identity -- Austria -- History. National characteristics, Austrian. National characteristics, European. Austrian literature. Civilization. Group identity. Group identity in literature. Intellectual life. Literature. National characteristics, Austrian. National characteristics, European. Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Austria -- Civilization. Austria -- In literature. Austria. Austria -- Vienna. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10390539

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ISBN:	9781441142498 1441142495 9781441170217 1441170219 9781441118233 9781441175601
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Vienna's Dreams of Europe argues for a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represent a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, a culture mixing various nationalities, ethnicities and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. To challenge standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own publics as European. Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism, and working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West"--

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