The thirty articles featured in Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture are based on papers given at the MALCA conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in the Spring of 2007. They cover literary works by several Austrian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth century such as Schnitzler, Musil, Hofmannsthal, Broch, Kraus, Drach, Jelinek and also developments in the graphic arts, including works by Klimt and VALIE EXPORT; architecture for example, Loos; film; and the popular media.

Autorentext

Clemens Ruthner received his PhD from the University of Vienna. He has taught German language, literature, and cultural studies, along with comparative literature, translation, and European studies, at universities in Budapest, Antwerp, Brussels, Edmonton, Vienna, Sarajevo, and Dublin. Currently he is Director of Research of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College in Ireland. His own research focuses on Austrian literature, «otherness», cultural theory, and Central European studies.
Raleigh Whitinger received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He has taught German literature, language, and translation at the University of Alberta since the early 1970s. He has published monographs, translations, and anthologies on Johannes Schlaf, Lou Andreas-Salome, Franz Grillparzer, and Eduard Mörike, among others, and a variety of articles on German literature from romanticism to the early twentieth century. Since 2002 he has been the editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.

Klappentext

The thirty articles featured in Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture are based on papers given at the MALCA conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in the Spring of 2007. They cover literary works by several Austrian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth century such as Schnitzler, Musil, Hofmannsthal, Broch, Kraus, Drach, Jelinek and also developments in the graphic arts, including works by Klimt and VALIE EXPORT; architecture - for example, Loos; film; and the popular media.

Zusammenfassung
Contested Passions

Inhalt

Contents: Clemens Ruthner/Raleigh Whitinger: Vorwort der Herausgeber/Foreword by the Editors - Katherine Arens: Mayerling: The Women's Story - Alexandra Strohmaier: «Halb-Asiens» umtriebige Körper: Zur Sexualisierung kultureller Alterität in der Habsburgermonarchie - Robert Weldon Whalen: Sexuality and the Sacred: Erotic Religion in Gustav Klimt's Fin-de-Siècle Vienna - Ross S. Kilpatrick: Klimt and the Stars: A Dionysian Riddle in Der Kuss - Dariusz Gafijczuk: Adolf Loos: Architectures in Abeyance - Martin Huber: «Übrigens hat mich Weininger auf die Idee gebracht»: Zur Weininger-Rezeption bei - und durch - Karl Kraus - Clemens Ruthner: The Back Side of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: The Infamously Infantile Sexuality of Josefine Mutzenbacher - Marcus G. Patka: Mädchenhirt und Galgentoni: Zum Thema «Prostitution» im Werk von Egon Erwin Kisch - Raymond L. Burt: «Errötend folgte er ihren Spuren»: The Enigmatic Friedrich Salomo Krauss - Susanne Hochreiter: «Die kommende Revolution ist eine Revolution fürs Mutterrecht»: Otto Gross - Antonia Eder: «Wie es zwischen Mann und Weib zugeht»: De- und Trans-Formationen von Weiblichkeitsbildern in Hofmannsthals Elektra - Agatha Schwartz: «When the Special Girlfriend ...»: Female Homosexuality and Fin-de-Siècle Austrian Women Writers - Imke Meyer: Geborgte Gefühle: Männlichkeit und Melodrama in Arthur Schnitzlers früher Erzählung Der Sohn - Katrin Schumacher: Wieder. Einmal. Wieder: Arthur Schnitzlers Akte der Wiederholung - Christina Samstad: Liebesreigen und Totentanz: Tabuisierung von Sexualität und Tod in Arthur Schnitzlers Reigen und Werner Schwabs Reigenadaption - Wolfgang Müller-Funk: Stellungs-Kriege: Erotik und Gender in Robert Musils Erzählungen Drei Frauen - Sebastian Hüsch: Ist Macht erotisch? Verführung zwischen Macht und Ironie in Robert Musils Mann ohne Eigenschaften - Malcolm Spencer: Violence and Love: The Search for the «andere Zustand» in Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften - Bernhard Fetz: Sexualität und intellektuelle Arbeit: Hermann Brochs Psychische Selbstbiographie im Kontext des Gesamtwerks - Robert von Dassanowsky: Gendering the Crusade: Female Roles and Sexuality in Film under Austrofascism - Franz X. Eder: «Healthy Sensuality» Succeeded by the American Influence: Sexuality and Media from National Socialism to the «Sexual Revolution» - Wolfgang Hackl: Transvestismus und Erinnerungsdiskurs: Gerhard Fritschs Roman Fasching - Heide Kunzelmann: «Zuhälter der Wörter»: H. C. Artmanns erotische Poetologie - Ruth V. Gross: Talk Dirty To Me: Probing Sexuality in Albert Drach's Untersuchung an Mädeln - Dagmar C. G. Lorenz: Gender, Pornography, and History in the Fiction of Albert Drach and Elfriede Jelinek - Annika Nickenig: Versehrte Körper: Sexualität und Zeugenschaft in Elfriede Jelineks Die Ausgesperrten und Die Kinder der Toten - Lorely French: «Zu lieben, indem man nicht geliebt hat»: Love, Erotica, and Pornography in Elfriede Jelinek's Über Tiere - Markus Hallensleben: Mapping the Body Space between Gender and Grammar: Valie Export's «Body Configurations» - Anna Babka: «Vor dem nackten Schoß eines afrikanischen Straßenjungen»: Schwuler Sex und kulturelle Alterität in Josef Winklers Friedhof der bitteren Orangen - Bernhard Doppler: «Seltsame Heilige»: Religiosität und Pornographie in Werner Schwabs Die Präsidentinnen und Ulrich Seidls Hundstage.