Assessing the impact offin-de-siecleJewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across ...the20thcentury. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling "unheimlichheimisch"(eerily at home) in Vienna.
The interview was created on the occasion of an author reading by the Austrian writer, essayist and journalist Eva Menasse, which took place on April 18, 2023 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in ...Prague. Eva Menasse read from her novel Dunkelblum, published in 2021. The event was the first part of a reading series in the Czech Republic, which covered Brno and Budweis in the coming days and ended in Aussig.
Die Buchreihe Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte deckt das gesamte Spektrum der germanistischen Literaturforschung ab und umfasst Monographien und Sammelbände über einzelne Epochen vom ...ausgehenden Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Sie versammelt Beiträge zur Erklärung zentraler Begriffe der Literaturgeschichte, zu einzelnen Autoren und Werken.
Anna Mitgutsch’s In foreign cities is a novel about the experience of a progressive and increasingly complete estrangement. The all-encompassing alienation that pervades the main character, an ...American who moved to Europe, is reflected at the same time on a linguistic level. The feeling of strangeness she perceives in every nuance of her life takes shape through a growing detachment from her own language, which she eventually loses - and with it, herself. Our close investigation aims to shade light on the connection between the feeling of estrangement and the radicalization of incommunicability. We will show how expressive impotence outlines an extensive identity clash, which transcends conflicts related to non-belonging to a nation, culture, or language, and soon discloses itself as an existential condition.
This study explores the novels of contemporary Austrian writer Raphaela Edelbauer (Raphaela Edelbauer, b. 1990) “The Fluid Land” (Das flüssige Land, 2019), “DAVE” (DAVE, 2021), “The Incommensurables” ...(Die Inkommensurablen, 2023) in the context of contemporary Austrian literature of the early third millennium. The relevance of the research is driven by the necessity to comprehend the trends in Austrian literature during an era of global changes. It is revealed that, on one hand, the author continues the traditions of Austrian literature of the second half of the 20th century, particularly on a thematic level (Austrian identity, overcoming the past, the false idyll of provincial Austria, conflicts between fathers and children, etc.), while on the other hand, delving into pressing contemporary issues (transhumanism, artificial intelligence, etc.). The concept of fictionality is central to the analysis, exploring the ways and specifics of its implementation in the artistic text in alignment with the author’s communicative intentions. Special attention is given to Edelbauer’s individual style, the uniqueness of narrative organization in the examined genre varieties (parable novel, science fiction novel, historical novel), and the quest for a “personal” language. The novelty of this research lies in the fact that Edelbauer’s work, distinguished by prestigious literary awards in Austria and Germany, has not been a subject of study in Russian literary studies.
In Marianne Gruber's latest novel Erinnerungen eines Narren (2012), the theme of fear appears in various forms – first as a part of life and later as an inexplicable fear. This paper examines the ...forms of fear in Marianne Gruber's novel, basing the research on Sigmund Freud's conceptualization of fear. Another aim of the paper is to find out how dealing with fear is treated in literature.
The difficult distinction between reality and virtuality, between fact and fiction, user and reader, and between author and narrator becomes the inseparable quality of digital literature. Using the ...example of "Datenpoesie" (2018) by the Austrian artist Jörg Piringer, the article examines the boundary between an electronic device as a medium competing with the traditional carrier such as books, and a technological format that already has effects on the genres.
The article introduces Poetry Slam as a new trend in the literary field. The German-speaking slam scene is presented, with a focus on Austria and showing how poetry slam influences and changes the ...literary scene. In addition to performance, heterogeneity and multilingualism are defining characteristics in slam. This is not mere coincidence resulting from slam's loose rules. Rather, as the article shows, these traits are deeply inscribed in the slam movement and intrinsic to the system.
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