...Anne Dwyer This essay investigates the linguistic play and geopolitical scenarios in the work of Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (author of Venus in Furs and the man who gave his name to “masochism”) and his younger contemporary, the German-Jewish writer Karl Emil Franzos. Both men grew...

... the production of Ruskin's architectural treatise was informed by a number of contemporary contexts. These include Ruskin's own frustration with the effects of the Austrian occupation on Venice and his awareness of the conflict between pro- and anti-Austrian parties in the city in the aftermath of the 1848...

...Lisa A. Barca This essay explores how the poets Emily Dickinson (American, 1830–1886), Giovanni Pascoli (Italian, 1855–1912), and Rainer Maria Rilke (Bohemian-Austrian, 1875–1926) each use celestial imagery, such as the sun and stars, to represent the modern mystery ushered in by scientific...

...Daisy Sainsbury This article explores the constrained writing practices of Austrian-American writer Walter Abish in relation to those of the French literary group the Oulipo, in particular Georges Perec. Specifically, it considers the formal, stylistic, and thematic similarities between Perec's La...

...: Jews and the Study of Jewish Culture in the New Europe I. Alpine Stages On March 24, 2005, Richard Bernstein reported in the New York Times on the first full production of the musical The Sound of Music on an Austrian stage: “The most beautiful music is the song of the mountain...

... on the movement control regime of the Habsburg Empire, which also extended to its possessions and client states in Northern Italy, where most of the action takes place. The Austrian passport system was the cornerstone of Metternich’s police state, and Stendhal clearly regards it as the epitome of polit...

... had come about precisely because the idea of “Great Germany” had failed: once Germany was united under Prussian leadership, Austria was forced to shift eastward and to conclude the compromise of 1867, at the cost of creating a problematic multicultural state. Among those Austrians who contemplated...

... by the tragic events of his own life. Arrested in 1820 as a member of the Carbonari, a secret political organization that aspired to liberate Italy from Austrian domi- nation, Pellico narrowly escaped execution when his death sentence was com- muted to fi fteen years of hard labor. (He was eventually...

... . Schuman Rebecca . “Kafka's Verwandlung, Wittgenstein's Tractatus, and the Limits of Metaphorical Language.” Modern Austrian Literature 44 . 3–4 ( 2011 ): 19 – 32 . Print . Sokel Walter . The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka . Detroit : Wayne State UP , 2002...

... from the Alps to the Appennines and the cities of Venice and Padua. Sunlight illuminates a world whose present is markedly different from its past, since both cities had lost their cultural primacy and independence after the Congress of Vienna assigned Lom- bardy and Venetia to the Austrian...

... an important emotional reference for me,” Baraka writes, and the Austrian philosopher appears frequently in his essays and correspondence from this period (221). While Baraka is not alone among postwar writers for taking to Wittgenstein, his engagement with the philosopher is unique among Black American...

... of the nineteenth century, his sense of national identity was always unclear: “He was insulted once to be called a German, and, when the speaker corrected himself, ‘I meant, Austrian,’ Rilke said, ‘Not at all. In 1866, when the Austrians entered Prague, my parents shut their windows’” (Hass xi). Although he...

... by the Austrian government for being revolutionary in their depiction of the poverty and ignorance of the Eastern Provinces. What Franzos advocated was the complete acculturation of Eastern Jews into a German-speaking Western society. In a continuation of the “ethno- graphic” writing of From Half-Asia...

...—not only by way of borrowed lexical items but also in terms of structure. Nor need they belong to related language groups to do so. German, the lingua franca of the Austrian Monarchy, naturally played a leading role in the East-Central European Sprachbund, yet was its only Germanic language. What...

...—not only by way of borrowed lexical items but also in terms of structure. Nor need they belong to related language groups to do so. German, the lingua franca of the Austrian Monarchy, naturally played a leading role in the East-Central European Sprachbund, yet was its only Germanic language. What...

...—not only by way of borrowed lexical items but also in terms of structure. Nor need they belong to related language groups to do so. German, the lingua franca of the Austrian Monarchy, naturally played a leading role in the East-Central European Sprachbund, yet was its only Germanic language. What...

...—not only by way of borrowed lexical items but also in terms of structure. Nor need they belong to related language groups to do so. German, the lingua franca of the Austrian Monarchy, naturally played a leading role in the East-Central European Sprachbund, yet was its only Germanic language. What...

... the status of an unchanging, fated metaphysical condition. After a chapter on Austrian feminist Elfriede Jelinek, entitled “Limits of Femi- nist Representation,” Hanssen ends the book with a chapter—“Whatever Hap- pened to Feminist Theorythat both historicizes the impasse in feminist theory between...

... its imperial dream of acquiring the Second Rome and validating its Pan Slavic claim to Orthodox European lead- ership. After this point, Turkey was perceived by a recently liberated Romania as a potential shield against the aggressive designs of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and, even more so...

... in the literary domain. One suspects that Elizabeth Anscombe, Rush Rhees, and Wittgenstein’s contempo- raries and colleagues, as attuned to Malory or Tennyson as the Austrian philoso- pher himself, would have heard a kind of rhyme sound between the “vacation...