Visions and Visionaries is an apt title for this volume of essays on contemporary Austrian literature and film, because this collection offers insightful discussions of a gallery of significant authors and cultural figures. It also investigates important issues of style and genre, and portrays questions of Austrian identity and culture in rich contexts of recent literary and multi-media developments, cross-cultural interactions, and historical forces. This book encompasses relevant trends and notions from the past especially the complexities of lingering effects of the Nazi era along with issues of the future in particular the present and anticipated interactions of culture and cyberspace. The essays are enhanced by poems by Evelyn Schlag and Gerhard Kofler.

Autorentext

The Editors: Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger is Associate Professor of German at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. She has published numerous articles and books on contemporary Austrian literature and culture, including Out From the Shadows: A Collection of Articles on Austrian Literature and Film by Women Since 1945 (1997); Literature, Film, and the Culture Industry in Post-War Austria (2002), and Modern Austrian Theater: Text and Performance (2002), which she co-edited with Linda DeMeritt.
Pamela S. Saur is Professor of English and German at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Her research interest lies in contemporary Austrian literature. She has published translations of Herbert Zand, Legacy of Ashes (2001) and Barbara Neuwirth, Escaping Expectations: Stories by Austrian Women Writers (2002).

Klappentext

Visions and Visionaries is an apt title for this volume of essays on contemporary Austrian literature and film, because this collection offers insightful discussions of a gallery of significant authors and cultural figures. It also investigates important issues of style and genre, and portrays questions of Austrian identity and culture in rich contexts of recent literary and multi-media developments, cross-cultural interactions, and historical forces. This book encompasses relevant trends and notions from the past - especially the complexities of lingering effects of the Nazi era - along with issues of the future - in particular the present and anticipated interactions of culture and cyberspace. The essays are enhanced by poems by Evelyn Schlag and Gerhard Kofler.

Inhalt

Contents: Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger: The Conference, MALCA, and Beyond - Pamela S. Saur/Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger: About This Volume - Evelyn Schlag: Mit Beverly auf Konferenz - Gerhard Kofler: Fughe Americane - Amerikanische Fugen - Martin Krusche: Plugged in: Webgestütztes Literaturgeschehen - Klaus Zeyringer: Österreichische Literatur 1986-2001 - Andrea Bandhauer: Margret Kreidls In allen Einzelheiten. Katalog als autobiographisches Experiment - Willy Riemer: Michael Haneke, Funny Games: Violence and the Media - Larissa Cybenko: Diskussion über den Roman von Christoph Ransmayr Die letzte Welt: Zur Konstruktion von Moderne und Postmoderne - Linda C. DeMeritt: The Proliferation of Reality: Postmodernism in Gert Jonke's Geometrischer Heimatroman - Anita McChesney: From Fiction to Reality: Hypertextuality, the Detective Schema, and the Epic Vision of Peter Handke's Der Hausierer - Marc-Oliver Schuster: «Nur das Kino - als Einstimmung»: Filmkultur, Visualität und Räumlichkeit im Rahmen von H.C. Artmanns Autonomieästhetik - Carlotta Von Maltzan: Mythologizing Africa: H.C. Artmann's afrika geht jetzt zur ruh and Ingeborg Bachmann's Das Buch Franza - Paul F. Dvorak: Peter Henisch's Schwarzer Peter: Formulating Self-Identity on an Austrian Backdrop - Christina Guenther: Identity, History, and Space in Josef Haslinger's Vaterspiel and Anna Mitgutsch's Haus der Kindheit - Mary Wauchope: Identity and Perception in the Film 38: Vienna Before the Fall - Jörg Thunecke: «Ein liebenswerter Untermensch?» Erich Hackls Erzählung Abschied von Sidonie - Wynfrid Kriegleder: Soma Morgensterns Buch Die Blutsäule (1946-52): Ein früher Versuch, den Holocaust literarisch zu bewältigen.