Table of Contents

Introduction: Notes on Literature in Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries - Ernst Grabovszki
The Written City: Vienna 1900 and 2000 - Janet Stewart
Notes from the Counter World: Poetry in Vienna from Hugo von Hofmannsthal to Ernst Jandl - Ruediger Goerner
Austrian Women and the Public: Women's Writing at the Turn of the Centuries - Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
Dreams of Interpretation: Psychoanalysis and the Literature of Vienna - Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Venice as Mediator Between Province and Viennese Metropolis: Themes in Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Gerhard Roth, and Kolleritsch - John Pizer
Critical Observers of Their Times: Karl Kraus and Robert Menasse - Geoffrey C. Howes
Art and Architecture 1900 and 2000 - Douglas Crow
Austrian Cinema Culture at the Turn of the Centuries - Willy Riemer
"Wien bleibt Wien": Austrian-Jewish Culture at Two fins de siècle - Hillary Hope Herzog and Todd Herzog
"Medizin ist eine Weltanschauung.": On Schnitzler's Medical Writings - Hillary Hope Herzog

About the Author

ERNST GRABOVSZKI teaches at the University of Vienna. James Hardin is professor emeritus in German at the University of South Carolina.

Reviews

A delightfully readable and unified collection of nine scholarly but lively articles ... with a collection of pertinent photographs.
*GERMANIC NOTES AND REVIEWS*

The volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the arts, culture, and politics in Vienna around 1900 and 2000.... We are provided with a series of enlightening comparative studies.
*GERMAN QUARTERLY*