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Ingeborg Bachmann (1927-73), one of the most acclaimed German-language poets of the post-war period, famously turned away from the lyric during the 1960s. Publicly declaring that she had stopped writing poetry, Bachmann began work on the prose Todesarten cycle that would dominate the last decade of her life. During a period of personal breakdown in the 1960s, however, she privately continued to write in verse, and the publication of selected drafts in 2000 threw new light on her compositional methods in this period. As the most extensive study to date of the poetic drafts, this monograph...

This issue of Austrian Studies assembles eight articles on various ways by which Austrian writing was communicated into foreign cultures. Translation here is not only understood as a 'simple' transfer from one language into another, but as a process by which cultural difference is negotiated - and comes to the fore with exceptional poignancy and detail. The articles concern some of the most important Austrian writers of the twentieth century, namely Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Joseph Roth, Felix Salten, Stefan Zweig, Karl Kraus and Ilse Achinger; they comprise case studies, surveys, translation...