| From Fin-De-Siècle to Theresienstadt: The Works and Life of the Writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein Contributor(s): Lamb-Faffelberger, Margarete (Editor), Kraft, Helga (Editor), Lorenz, Dagmar C. G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820481807 ISBN-13: 9780820481807 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $116.28 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 832.8 |
| LCCN: 2006008944 |
| Series: Austrian Culture, |
| Physical Information: 262 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This critical anthology presents original scholarship and materials about the prominent dramatist and concentration camp memoir writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein (1866-1949). The individual scholarly contributions provide new insights into the issue of multiple identity and allegiance in the first half of the twentieth century. Bernstein was a Germanophile and, according to Nazi ideology, a Jew; she also assumed the traditional roles of mother and housewife; finally, she was a feminist and a socialite related to the Wagner family. The complexity and conflictedness of Elsa Porges-Bernstein appeals to contemporary audiences, as evidenced by the 2002 revival of her play Maria Arndt, in Chicago. |