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Articles
Jagd und Joch, Frau und Pferd: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach’s Unsühnbar as a Reflection of Nineteenth-Century Human-Animal Bonds
Sarah Hillenbrand Varela
The increased attention to animals during the nineteenth century often led to close human-animal bonds, an aspect of life depicted in the work of Austrian author Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Indeed, much of Ebner’s oeuvre is characterized by animal representations. Drawing on a developing conception of the animal’s capacity for feeling and emotion, Ebner observes and questions human ethical behavior, fulfilling her reputation as an important Tierfreundin of the nineteenth century. In so doing, she participates in a nineteenth-century tradition of animal representation that urges readers to examine their own humanity. In Unsühnbar, Ebner’s novel of adultery, the depiction of Maria Dornach’s bonds with animals enriches Ebner’s criticisms of aristocratic social mores such as inheritance and arranged marriages and inspires reader empathy with the novel’s protagonist through her sympathetic identification with animal figures. Ebner’s portrayal of human emotions inspired by, influenced by, and directed at animals and her attribution of emotional capacity to animals themselves reflects a nineteenth-century preoccupation with the bonds between the species, moving readers to sympathy for both.
Zweig, Freud, and the Ends of Criticism
Gilad Sharvit
This article aims to revisit the intricate relationship of Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud and his close followers, taking as its entry point the radical elimination of Zweig from psychoanalytic historiography. While many found Zweig’s notorious attempt to group Freud with Franz Mesmer and Mary Baker Eddy in Mental Healers at the heart of the antagonistic attitude toward Zweig in the psychoanalytic movement, I argue that Zweig’s glaring criticisms against the rationalistic shift in psychoanalytic theory that had started to take place in his time is the deep source for that rupture. Detailing the history of Zweig’s absenteeism, the paper offers a new outlook on the ethics of repression and alienation in the psychoanalytic movement in its formative period.
Hybridity, Alterity, and Gender in Marie Eugenie delle Grazie’s Autobiographical Prose
Agatha Schwartz
This paper explores Marie Eugenie delle Grazie’s selected autobiographical narratives through an intersectional analysis of hybridity, ethnic stereotyping, and gender. Although cultural hybridity is presented as a positive reality of interethnic living in the environment of the narrator’s childhood as well as within herself and her family, there is a shift in this imaginative geography toward an ever-increasing construction of Germanness as the dominant and desirable identity against non-German minorities. Schwartz contends that delle Grazie’s narratives create a space of ambiguity in their representation of the orientalized Other in the Austro-Hungarian border region of Banat, first and foremost the Serbs. Unlike the dominant representation of Slavic women by canonical Austrian writers along the poles of nurse and prostitute, delle Grazie creates strong and independent Serbian female characters while simultaneously embracing her mother’s German cultural identity and rejecting her as a dominant mother figure. Ultimately, Delle Grazie’s narratives reflect her own struggles both with her hybrid identity and with her self-definition as a woman writer in fin-de-siècle and interwar Vienna.
Visualizing Waldheim: Mediale Schlüsselbilder der “Affäre Waldheim”
Ina Markova
This paper focuses on visualizations of the “Waldheim Affair” of 1986 and 1987 in several Austrian media. Although Waldheim and his wartime biography have been at the heart of several seminal works on Austrian politics of memory, the visual history of this paradigm-shifting event has not yet been examined. This article therefore aims at analyzing important “key images” and their functions and uses within the context of the “Waldheim Affair” and the process of Austria’s “coming to terms” with its past. However, Waldheim and the subsequent medial uproar have to be analyzed against the backdrop of previous “critical discourse moments” that have contributed to setting the course for a thorough reexamination of Austria’s role in WWII. This paper also explores the Kreisky-Wiesenthal conflict in 1975 and the Reder-Frischenschlager handshake of 1985.
Interview mit Vladimir Vertlib
Conducted by Marilya Veteto Reese
Reviews
Simone Gottschlich-Kempf, Identitätsbalance im Roman der Moderne. Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Max Frisch und Botho Strauβ. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 884 S.
Barbara Siller
Norbert Christian Wolf, Eine Triumphpforte österreichischer Kunst: Hugo von Hofmannsthals Gründung der Salzburger Festspiele. Salzburg and Vienna: Jung und Jung, 2014. 319 pp.
Caroline A. Kita
Simon Ganah, Karl Kraus und Peter Altenberg. Eine Typologie moderner Haltungen. Konstanz: Konstanz UP, 2015. 236 S.
Ana Foteva
Janek Wasserman, Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2014. 264 pp.
John Robertson
Donald L. Wallace, Embracing Democracy: Hermann Broch, Politics, and Exile, 1918 to 1951. Bern: Peter Lang, 2014. 268 pp.
Vincent Kling
Rüdiger Görner and Klemens Renoldner, eds., Zweigs England. Schriftenreihe des Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg 5. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 208 pp.
Nikolaus Ungar
Stefan Winterstein, Versuch gegen Heimito von Doderer: Über “Ordnungspein” und Faschismus. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 224 pp.
Vincent Kling
Jeremy Adler and Gesa Dane, Hrsg., Literatur und Anthropologie. H. G. Adler, Elias Canetti und Franz Baermann Steiner in London. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2014. 324 S.
Walter Tschacher
Christoph Pflaumbaum, Melancholisches Schreiben nach Auschwitz: Studien zu Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jean Améry und W. G. Sebald. KONNE. Studien im Schnittbereich von Literatur, Kultur und Natur 7. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 369 pp.
Steven R. Cerf
Marion Tauschwitz, Selma Merbaum: Ich habe keine Zeit gehabtzuende zu schreiben. Fernwald: Zu Klampen! Verlag, 2014. 350 pp.
Bianca Rosenthal
Günther Stocker and Michael Rohrwasser, eds., Spannungsfelder: Zur deutschsprachigen Literatur im Kalten Krieg (1945–1968). Wuppertal: Arco Wissenschaft, 2014. 356 pp.
Pamela S. Saur
Wolfgang Straub, ed., Hans Weigel: Kabarettist–Kritiker–Romancier–Literaturmanager. Archiv der Zeitgenossen 2. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2014. 188 pp.
Margy Gerber
Johann Georg Lughofer, Hrsg., Das Erschreiben der Berge. Die Alpen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft 81. Innsbruck: Innsbruck UP, 2014. 376 S.
Eva-Maria Müller
Anna O’Driscoll, Constructions of Melancholy in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. 253 pp.
C.E. Findley
Verena Stindl, Ein Bild von einem Mann: Österreichische und deutsche Offiziere in der Literatur: Eine Studie zum Klischee in erzählender Prosa. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 361 pp.
John E. Fahey
Peter Demetz, Auf den Spuren Bernard Bolzanos: Essays. Arco Wissenschaft 24. Wuppertal: Arco Verlag, 2013. 77 pp.
Katherine Arens
Ian Bostridge, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession. New York: Knopf, 2015. 504 pp.
Vincent Kling
Irène Cagneau and Marc Lacheny, eds., Les relations de Johann Nestroy avec la France. Austriaca: Cahiers universitaires d’information sur l’Autriche. Rouen: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2012. 200 pp.
Katherine Arens
Alfred Hagemann, Natur bei Rainer Maria Rilke. Wald, Park, Garten und ihre literarische Darstellung. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2015. 427 S.
Elmar Lenhart
Friederike Fellner, Kafkas Zeichnungen. Paderborn: Fink, 2014. 320 pp.
Helga W. Kraft
Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber, eds., Stefan Zweig and World Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives. Rochester: Camden House, 2014. 266 pp.
Ruth V. Gross
Uwe Baur und Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher, Literatur in Österreich 1938–1945. Handbuch eines literarischen Systems 3: Oberösterreich. Wien: Böhlau, 2014. 476 S.
Walter Tschacher
Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff, and Dieter Langewiesche, eds., Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. 210 pp.
Laura A. Detre
Martina Gugglberger, Reguliertes Abenteuer: Missionarinnen in Südafrika nach 1945. L’Homme Schriften. Reihe zur Feministischen Geschichtswissenschaft 22. Vienna: Böhlau, 2014. 276 pp.
Martina Cucchiara
Tobias Matzner, Vita variabilis: Handelnde und ihre Welt nach Hannah Arendt und Ludwig Wittgenstein. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013. 225 pp.
Katherine Arens
Günter Bischof, Jason Dawsey, and Bernhard Fetz, eds., The Life and Work of Günther Anders. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2014. 202 pp.
Stephanie Dreier
Anna Kinder, ed., Peter Handke: Stationen, Orte, Positionen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. 258 pp.
Anita McChesney
Robin Hauenstein, Historiographische Metafiktionen: Ransmayr, Sebald, Kracht, Beyer. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2014. 197 pp.
Gary Schmidt
Susanne Blumesberger, Handbuch der österreichischen Kinder- und Jugendbuchautorinnen. 2 vols. Vienna: Böhlau, 2014. 1395 pp.
Sarah S. Painitz
Lynn M. Kutch and Todd Herzog, eds., Tatort Germany: The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction. Rochester, ny: Camden House, 2014. 263 pp.
Thomas W. Kniesche
