From High Priests to Desecrators: Contemporary Austrian Writers (Writing on Writing) - Softcover

 
9781850754299: From High Priests to Desecrators: Contemporary Austrian Writers (Writing on Writing)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1850754292 ISBN 13: 9781850754299
Verlag: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of twelve studies of some of the leading Austrian writers of today, such as Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke and Thomas Bernhard, is ample evidence of a distinctive Austrian literary culture, even if its definition proves something of a chimaera. But are these writers high priests, enthroned by the established culture, or desecrators, angrily rejecting it? Some of the contributors to this volume unflinchingly assign their authors to one end of this spectrum or another, while others refuse even to entertain such a provocative schematization. 'The essays in this collection offer a good impression of the formal and thematic range of contemporary Austrian literature and include substantial pieces on Handke, Bernhard, Jelinek, Fried and Mitgutsch, while other contributions reveal the special quality of more idiosyncratic and marginal figures. Editors and contributors wisely avoid attempting to deduce from this variety a distinctive Austrian quality common to these authors, but they are where appropriate aware of the provocation some of them represent in an Austrian context' (Forum for Modern Language Studies).

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Verlag
Sheffield Academic Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1850754292
ISBN 13 
9781850754299
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
216
Herausgeber
Schmidt Ricarda
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