Decadence and innovation: Austro-Hungarian life and art at the turn of the century / edited by Robert B. Pynsent.
Contributor(s): Pynsent, Robert B.
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1989Description: xiii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0297795597.Subject(s): Austria -- Civilization -- Congresses -- 19th century | Austria -- Civilization -- Congresses -- 20th century | Austria -- Intellectual life -- Congresses -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 943.6| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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"A small selection of papers from a large international conference on Austria-Hungary at the turn of the century, held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London in December, 1986"--P. [ix].
Includes bibliographical references.
Images of the city / Edward Timms -- The role of Jews in Viennese culture and society at the turn of the century / Steven Beller -- Weininger and the science of sex / Allan Janik -- The expression of exactness / Kevin Mulligan -- The concept of tradition / J.C. Nyíri -- Minority culture in a capital city / Monika Glettler -- The reception of the Hungarian feminist movement, 1904-14 / F.T. Zsuppán -- Paradoxes in Hungarian adepts of symbolism and decadence at the beginning of the twentieth century / André Karátson -- Imitation or inspiration / Magda Czigány -- The self / Petr Wittlich -- The significance of Czech fin-de-siècle criticism / Jirí Kudrnác -- The modern occult revival in Vienna, 1880-1910 / Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke -- Conclusory essay / Robert B. Pynsent.
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