| Schnitzler's Hidden Manuscripts Contributor(s): Reiss, Hans S. (Editor), Yates, W. E. (Editor), Bellettini, Lorenzo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3039115448 ISBN-13: 9783039115440 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $78.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: German Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 838.809 |
| LCCN: 2010034877 |
| Series: Britische Und Irische Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Lite |
| Physical Information: 206 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume, which takes its title from an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in November 2006, aims to shed new light on Schnitzler's oeuvre and his period by focusing on his as yet largely unpublished literary remains, his 'hidden manuscripts'. Among the key topics covered in this collection are: the reconstruction of the adventurous rescue of the manuscripts from Vienna in 1938 and a description of their current locations; an overview of the author's life, in its historical context, on the basis of such private documents as his diaries and letters; the plethora of existing variants, both published and unpublished, and their usefulness for our understanding of Schnitzler's work, from the Anatol cycle to the 'scandalous' Reigen - in the light of the discovery of its original manuscript - and Schnitzler's planned (but never completed) work on the historical figure of Emperor Joseph II; Schnitzler's difficult relationship with one of the most influential journalists of his time, Karl Kraus, and his literary friendship with a close but hitherto neglected contemporary, Gustav Schwarzkopf; the network of intertextual references 'hidden' in the revolutionary monologue novella Lieutenant Gustl against the background of Hermann Bahr's modernist theory of literature; and finally, Schnitzler's 'hidden legacy' in our own epoch. This book contains contributions in both English and German. |