A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 1)

This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler's productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy, World War I, the First Austrian Republic, and the rise of National Socialism, and he realized earlier than many of his contemporaries the threat that racist anti-Semitism posed to the then almost complete assimilation of Austrian Jews. His writings also reflect the irresolvable conflict between emerging feminism and the relentless "scientific" discourse of misogyny, and he chronicles the collapse of traditional social structures at the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the struggles of the newly founded republic. In the 1950s Schnitzler's powerful literary record assumed model character for Viennese Jewish intellectuals born after the Shoah, and his portrayal of gender relations and role expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted — witness Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Schnitzler's Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler's dramas and prose works from contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria's multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Contributors: Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett.Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago. A fresh collection of essays on the work of one of the leading figures of the Viennese fin de siècle.This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler's productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy, World War I, the First Austrian Republic, and the rise of National Socialism, and he realized earlier than many of his contemporaries the threat that racist anti-Semitism posed to the then almost complete assimilation of Austrian Jews. His writings also reflect the irresolvable conflict between emerging feminism and the relentless'scientific'discourse of misogyny, and he chronicles the collapse of traditional social structures at the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the struggles of the newly founded republic. In the 1950s Schnitzler's powerful literary record assumed model character for Viennese Jewish intellectuals born after the Shoah, and his portrayal of gender relations and role expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Schnitzler's Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler's dramas and prose worksfrom contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria's multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Contributors: Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago. A fresh collection of essays on the work of one of the leading figures of the Viennese fin de sicle. This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler's productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy, World War I, the First Austrian Republic, and the rise of National Socialism, and he realized earlier than many of his contemporaries the threat that racist anti-Semitism posed to the then almost complete assimilation of Austrian Jews. His writings also reflect the irresolvable conflict between emerging feminism and the relentless "scientific" discourse of misogyny, and he chronicles the collapse of traditional social structures at the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the struggles of the newly founded republic. In the 1950s Schnitzler's powerful literary record assumed model character for Viennese Jewish intellectuals born after the Shoah, and his portrayal of gender relations and role expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Schnitzler's Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler's dramas and prose worksfrom contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria's multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago. This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler's productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy, World War I, the First Austrian Republic, and the rise of National Socialism, and he realized earlier than many of his contemporaries the threat that racist anti-Semitism posed to the then almost complete assimilation of Austrian Jews. His writings also reflect the irresolvable conflict between emerging feminism and the relentless "scientific" discourse of misogyny, and he chronicles the collapse of traditional social structures at the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the struggles of the newly founded republic. In the 1950s Schnitzler's powerful literary record assumed model character for Viennese Jewish intellectuals born after the Shoah, and his portrayal of gender relations and role expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Schnitzler's Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler's dramas and prose worksfrom contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria's multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change.

Contributors: Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett.

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago. CONTENTS ......Page 6 SCHNITZLER'S PRINCIPAL WORKS ......Page 8 INTRODUCTION ......Page 14 The Author and His Audiences......Page 38 The Social and Political Context of Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen in Berlin, Vienna, and New York: 1900–1933......Page 40 “ . . . nothing against Arthur Schnitzler himself . . .”: Interpreting Schnitzler on Stage in Austria in the 1950s and 1960s......Page 72 Contexts......Page 90 The Problem and Challenge of Jewishness in the City o fSchnitzler and Anna O.......Page 92 Which Way Out? Schnitzler’s and Salten’s Conflicting Responses to Cultural Zionism......Page 116 The Writings......Page 140 The Self as Process in an Era of Transition: Competing Paradigms of Personality and Character in Schnitzler’s Works......Page 142 Schnitzler’s Turn to Prose Fiction: The Depiction of Consciousness in Selected Narratives......Page 162 A Century of Intrigue: The Dramatic Works of Arthur Schnitzler......Page 200 Arthur Schnitzler’s Puppet Plays......Page 218 “Medizin ist eine Weltanschauung”: On Schnitzler’s Medical Writings......Page 240 Schnitzler and the Discourse of Gender in Fin-de-siècle Vienna......Page 256 The Overaged Adolescents of Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie......Page 278 “Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image”: Crises of Masculinity in Schnitzler’s Die Fremde......Page 290 The Power of the Gaze: Visual Metaphors in Schnitzler’s Prose Works and Dramas......Page 316 Suicide as Performance in Dr. Schnitzler’s Prose......Page 338 The Legacy......Page 360 The Difficult Rebirth of Cosmopolitanism: Schnitzler and Contemporary Austrian Literature......Page 362 NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS ......Page 384 WORKS CITED ......Page 388 INDEX ......Page 412 This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler's productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy. World War I, the First Austrian Republic, and the rise of National Socialism, and he realized earlier than many of his contemporaries the threat that racist anti-Semitism posed to the then almost complete assimilation of Austrian Jews. His writings also reflect the irresolvable conflict between emerging feminism and the relentless "scientific" discourse of misogyny, and chronicle the collapse of traditional social structures at the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the struggles of the newly founded republic. In the 1950s Schnitzler's powerful literary record assumed model character for Viennese Jewish intellectuals born after the Shoah, and his portrayal of gender relations and role expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Schnitzler's Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this Companion volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler's dramas and prose works from contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria's multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Social and political context of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen in Berlin, Vienna, and New York -- Gerd K. Schneider " ... nothing against Arthur Schnitzler himself ..." -- Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner Problem and challenge of Jewishness in the city of Schnitzler and Anna O. -- Elizabeth Loentz Which way out? -- Iris Bruce Self as process in an era of transition -- Dagmar C.G. Lorenz Schnitzler's turn to prose fiction -- Felix Tweraser Century of intrigue -- Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler Arthur Schnitzler's puppet plays -- G.J. Weinberger "Medizin ist eine Weltanschauung" -- Hillary Hope Herzog Schnitzler and the discourse of gender in Fin-de-siècle Vienna -- Katherine Arens Overaged adolescents of Schnitzler's Der Weg ins Freie -- John Neubauer "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" -- Imke Meyer Power of the gaze -- Susan C. Anderson Suicide as performance -- Eva Kuttenberg Difficult rebirth of cosmopolitanism-- Matthias Konzett.