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Title: From Perinet to Jelinek

From Perinet to Jelinek

Viennese Theatre in its Political and Intellectual Context

by W. E. Yates (Volume editor) Allyson Fiddler (Volume editor) John Warren (Volume editor)
©2001 Conference proceedings 292 Pages
German Studies
Series: Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, Volume 28

Summary

In twenty essays, prefaced by a historical introduction, this volume surveys key features of the last two hundred years of theatre in what was the principal theatrical centre of central Europe until the First World War, relating key playwrights, plays, and institutional developments to the political and intellectual context that has helped shape them. The studies combine to give a picture of conservative and progressive movements in Viennese theatre from the aesthetic and political conservatism of the early nineteenth century to the innovations of the great period of Viennese modernism at the turn of the century, renewed conservatism in the inter-war years and the resurgence in the last two decades of the twentieth century of an outspokenly critical treatment of right-wing politics.

Details

Pages
292
Year
2001
ISBN (Softcover)
9783906766805
Language
English
Keywords
Conservatism Innovation Modernism
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2001. 292 pp.

Biographical notes

W. E. Yates (Volume editor) Allyson Fiddler (Volume editor) John Warren (Volume editor)

The Editors: W. E. Yates (b. 1938), Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter, is the author of a history of Viennese theatre and monographs on Grillparzer, Nestroy, Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal, and one of the General Editors of the standard edition of Nestroy. Allyson Fiddler (b. 1963) is Senior Lecturer in German at Lancaster University. Her main research interest and publications are in post-war Austrian women’s writing. She has published numerous articles on Elfriede Jelinek and a monograph entitled Rewriting Reality: an Introduction to Elfriede Jelinek (1994). John Warren (b. 1935), former Head of German at Oxford Brookes, has published on aspects of theatre between the wars and contributed to and edited symposium papers on Max Reinhardt, the Biedermeier, and Culture and Politics in Austria in the 1930s.

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