Fin de Siècle: 19th and 20th Century Comparisons and Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780820427478 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 199 str.

Juergen Kleist;Bruce A Butterfield

Opis

In "Fin de siecle," fourteen scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss phenomena at the end of the nineteenth century and compare them to those at the end of the twentieth century."

Spis treści

Contents: Dennis Costanzo: Artists and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle Paris - Patricia J. Siegel: Jouissance to «jouïs sens»: A Trajectory from Mallarmé to Kristeva - Angela Brown: A Brief History of Arnold Schönberg's Brettl-Lieder - Eberhard Görner: Metropolis: Potsdam's Film City Steps from the Past into the Future - Elizabeth T. Abbate: Heimdall's Call: Myth as Subtext in the Second Symphony of Gustav Mahler - Erin Mitchell: Aestheticism and Activism: Modes of Cultural Critique in Oscar Wilde's Time and Our Own - Trudis E. Goldsmith-Reber: «Most Beautiful Pagan, Most Sweet Jew»: The Changing Literary Image of the Beautiful Jewess in Twentieth-Century Literature - Peter J. Macris: The Elusive Quest: Schnitzler's Liebelei becomes Stoppard's The Real Thing - Erich Wolfgang Skwara: Tristan Island - James M. Lindgren: «The Rising Grandeur of a Nation and the Decay of its Virtue»: Historic Preservation at the Fin de Siècle - Martin H. Garrell: Fin-de-Siècle Physics: The 1890s and the 1990s - K. Thomas Finley: Cornucopia and Chemophobia: From Vital Force to Synthetic Strangulation - Donald M. Maier: Descrying the Truth of the Moment - J. Kellum Smith, Jr.: Vin de Siècle.

O autorze

The Editors: Jürgen Kleist is the author of Das Dilemma der Kunst (Peter Lang, 1989), the novella Nietzsche in Turin (1992), and several short stories that appeared in Anthologies. He holds a Ph.D. in German literature from the University of California, San Diego and currently is associate professor of German at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Bruce A. Butterfield is Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century fiction and pursues research and writing in contemporary Canadian literature. He is also book-review editor of the journal The American Review of Canadian Studies.
Both are editors of Mythology: From Ancient to Post-Modern (Peter Lang, 1992); Breakdowns: The Destiny of the Twentieth Century (Peter Lang, 1994); and Re-naming the Landscape (Peter Lang, 1994).