The thirty articles featured in Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture are based on papers given at the MALCA conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in the Spring of 2007. They cover literary works by several Austrian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth century such as Schnitzler, Musil, Hofmannsthal, Broch, Kraus, Drach, Jelinek and also developments in the graphic arts, including works by Klimt and VALIE EXPORT; architecture – for example, Loos; film; and the popular media.
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Clemens Ruthner received his PhD from the University of Vienna. He has taught German language, literature, and cultural studies, along with comparative literature, translation, and European studies, at universities in Budapest, Antwerp, Brussels, Edmonton, Vienna, Sarajevo, and Dublin. Currently he is Director of Research of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College in Ireland. His own research focuses on Austrian literature, «otherness», cultural theory, and Central European studies.
Raleigh Whitinger received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He has taught German literature, language, and translation at the University of Alberta since the early 1970s. He has published monographs, translations, and anthologies on Johannes Schlaf, Lou Andreas-Salome, Franz Grillparzer, and Eduard Mörike, among others, and a variety of articles on German literature from romanticism to the early twentieth century. Since 2002 he has been the editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xv + 464 pages, b&w images in text, NOT ex-library. 30 essays, 17 in German, 13 in English. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The essays cover literary works by several Austrian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth century such as Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Musil, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Broch, Karl Kraus, Albert Drach, Elfriede Jelinek and also developments in the graphic arts, including works by Gustav Klimt and Valie Export, architecture (Adolf Loos), film, and the popular media. -- Contents: Mayerling: The Women's Story / Katherine Arens; 'Halb-Asiens' umtriebige Körper: Zur Sexualisierung kultureller Alterität in der Habsburgermonarchie / Alexandra Strohmaier; Sexuality and the Sacred: Erotic Religion in Gustav Klimt's Fin-de-Siècle Vienna / Robert Weldon Whalen; Klimt and the Stars: A Dionysian Riddle in Der Kuss / Ross S. Kilpatrick; Adolf Loos: Architectures in Abeyance / Dariusz Gafijczuk; 'Übrigens hat mich Weininger auf die Idee gebracht': Zur Weininger-Rezeption bei - und durch - Karl Kraus / Martin Huber; The Back Side of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: The Infamously Infantile Sexuality of Josefine Mutzenbacher / Clemens Ruthner; Mädchenhirt und Galgentoni: Zum Thema 'Prostitution' im Werk von Egon Erwin Kisch / Marcus G. Patka; 'Errötend folgte er ihren Spuren': The Enigmatic Friedrich Salomo Krauss / Raymond L. Burt; 'Die kommende Revolution ist eine Revolution fürs Mutterrecht': Otto Gross / Susanne Hochreiter; 'Wie es zwischen Mann und Weib zugeht': De- und Trans-Formationen von Weiblichkeitsbildern in Hofmannsthals Elektra / Antonia Eder; 'When the Special Girlfriend': Female Homosexuality and Fin-de-Siècle Austrian Women Writers / Agatha Schwartz; Geborgte Gefühle: Männlichkeit und Melodrama in Arthur Schnitzlers früher Erzählung Der Sohn / Imke Meyer; Wieder. Einmal. Wieder: Arthur Schnitzlers Akte der Wiederholung / Katrin Schumacher; Liebesreigen und Totentanz: Tabuisierung von Sexualität und Tod in Arthur Schnitzlers Reigen und Werner Schwabs Reigenadaption / Christina Samstad; Stellungs-Kriege: Erotik und Gender in Robert Musils Erzählungen Drei Frauen / Wolfgang Müller-Funk; Ist Macht erotisch? Verführung zwischen Macht und Ironie in Robert Musils Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften / Sebastian Hüsch; Violence and Love: The Search for the 'andere Zustand' in Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften / Malcolm Spencer; Sexualität und intellektuelle Arbeit: Hermann Brochs Psychische Selbstbiographie im Kontext des Gesamtwerks / Bernhard Fetz; Gendering the Crusade: Female Roles and Sexuality in Film under Austrofascism / Robert von Dassanowsky; 'Healthy Sensuality' Succeeded by the American Influence: Sexuality and Media from National Socialism to the 'Sexual Revolution' / Franz X. Eder; Transvestismus und Erinnerungsdiskurs: Gerhard Fritschs Roman Fasching / Wolfgang Hackl; 'Zuhälter der Wörter': H.C. Artmanns erotische Poetologie / Heide Kunzelmann; Talk Dirty To Me: Probing Sexuality in Albert Drach's Untersuchung an Mädeln / Ruth V. Gross; Gender, Pornography, and History in the Fiction of Albert Drach and Elfriede Jelinek / Dagmar C. G. Lorenz; Versehrte Körper: Sexualität und Zeugenschaft in Elfriede Jelineks Die Ausgesperrten und Die Kinder der Toten / Annika Nickenig; 'Zu lieben, indem man nicht geliebt hat': Love, Erotica, and Pornography in Elfriede Jelinek's Über Tiere / Lorely French; Mapping the Body Space between Gender and Grammar: Valie Export's 'Körperkonfigurationen' / Markus Hallensleben; 'Vor dem nackten Schoß eines afrikanischen Straßenjungen': Schwuler Sex und kulturelle Alterität in Josef Winklers Friedhof der bitteren Orangen / Anna Babka; 'Seltsame Heilige': Religiosität und Pornographie in Werner Schwabs Die Präsidentinnen und Ulrich Seidls Hundstage / Bernhard Doppler; Contributors; Index of Names. Seller Inventory # 009933
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