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Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose
Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose
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While Vienna 1900 as a site of crisis has been established in the scholarship, this book focuses on the presence of forces that deny the existence of said crisis and work to contain its subversive and critical potential. Stereotype and destiny emerge in Schnitzler's prose texts as a form of these counter-critical forces. In her readings, Kolkenbrock shows that stereotype and destiny serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: the paradoxical need to be recognized as 'normal' and 'special' at the same time. While, through the complex of "stereotype and destiny," Schnitzler's prose addresses central modern questions of identity and subjecthood, Kolkenbrock's close readings also reveal how the texts inscribe themselves aesthetically in the literary tradition of Romanticism and as such offer crucial sources for understanding Schnitzler's representations of embattled subjecthood within broader social and aesthetic traditions.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2019-08-22
Publication Date:
2019-08-22
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1501357328
ISBN13:
9781501357329
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Weight:
356 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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