Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Ideal : Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1027
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Central European Studies
ISBN-10
1557535906
ISBN-13
9781557535900
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Imprint
Purdue University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 15th, 2011
Print length
201 Pages
Weight
354 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.80 x 1.90 cms
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Provides translations of essays that deal with the Austrian idea and with the distinctive position of German-speaking Austrians between German nationalism and peoples to the East, as well as essays that locate Hofmannsthal’s thinking about Austria in relation to the broader situation of German and European culture.
The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation called Hofmannsthal a
spiritual-moral authorityof a kind German culture had only rarely produced. This volume provides translations of essays that deal with the Austrian idea and with the distinctive position of German-speaking Austrians between German nationalism and peoples to the East, whether in the Habsburg Monarchy or beyond it, as well as essays that locate Hofmannsthal's thinking about Austria in relation to the broader situation of German and European culture.It is the true accomplishment of this translation that Hofmannsthal's language, recreated in a clear and elegant English, regains its melody of an earlier time. If there ever was a captivating documentation of the European potential of Austria beyond the stereotypes ofVienna at 1900,it has been brought together in this volume of essays that responded to the tragic challenges of World War I in a constructive way.Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania
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