Belle Necropolis : Ghosts of Imperial Vienna.
Title:
Belle Necropolis : Ghosts of Imperial Vienna.
Author:
Arens, Katherine.
ISBN:
9781453914274
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (242 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Necropolis: Introduction to the Ghosts of Imperial Austria -- 1 Excursus from the Crypt: In memoriam -- Postscript, by Heinrich Baltazzi-Scharschmid -- 2 From Mayerling's Ghosts to Today's Revenants: An Introduction to the Memory Cultures of Austria -- 3 The Persistence of Mitteleuropa in Memory: The Ghosts of Central Europe -- Travels Across Habsburg Europe -- Narrating Politics: The Appeal to Biopolitics -- Habsburg Wraiths: The Case of Jörg Haider -- Ghosts of Austria -- 4 Habsburg Nostalgia as Postmemory, and What Comes After -- Science Fiction Habsburgiana -- The Director -- The Artistic Team -- The Actors -- Revisiting the Action: Twitting the Allies -- History, Memory, and Collective Trauma -- 5 "Glücklich ist, wer [nicht] vergißt": From Broadway to the Necropolis -- Habsburg Revenants: Broadway-an-der-Wien -- Broadway an der Wien-The West End, East -- Some Conclusions: The Musical as Austrian Popular Culture -- 6 Building the Habsburg Subject: Scholarly Historical Fictions -- Prussian-Cold-War Vienna: From the Public to the Academy -- Schorske's Modernist fin de siècle -- The Ringstrasse as a Social-Textual Project -- Some Conclusions: The Ideology of Austrian Historicism -- Afterword: Beyond Necrophilia -- Appendix: An Introduction to the Denkschrift -- Denkschrift -- Nachschrift, von Heinrich Baltazzi-Scharschmid -- Notes -- Necropolis -- 1. Excursus from the Crypt -- 2. From Mayerling's Ghosts to Today's Revenants -- 3. The Persistence of Mitteleuropa in Memory -- 4. Habsburg Nostalgia as Postmemory, and What Comes After -- 5. "Glücklich ist, wer [nicht] vergißt" -- 6. Building the Habsburg Subject -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
Abstract:
Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siècle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume argues that «Habsburg nostalgia» is anything but backward looking: instead, images from this glittering Habsburg past become evidence of a culture's sophisticated sense of how and why history is made, in both official and popular spheres. Including the first translation of an original account of Crown Prince Rudolf's suicide at Mayerling in 1889, Belle Necropolis argues for Austria's continued reuse of its own history to point the way toward the future rather than simply memorializing a past that only exists as living memories of shared stories, not as a truth in itself. Case studies included here range from imperial stereotypes before 1900 through their adaptations in the film 1. April 2000 and today's musicals, and from the politics of representing Austria since Rebecca West up through Schorske's master narrative of the Ringstrasse. Through these studies, Habsburg culture emerges as a culture of commemoration that uses its own past to overcome the limits of a small country seeking a role on the contemporary world stage.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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