Decadence and innovation
Subtitle: Austro-Hungarian life and art at the turn of the century
By: edited by Robert B. Pynsent.
Contributors: Pynsent, Robert B.
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Austria -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Austria -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Austria -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Austria -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A small selection of papers from a large international conference on Austria-Hungary at the turn of the century, held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London in December, 1986"--P. [ix].
Table of contents: value: Images of the city / Edward Timms; value: The role of Jews in Viennese culture and society at the turn of the century / Steven Beller; value: Weininger and the science of sex / Allan Janik; value: The expression of exactness / Kevin Mulligan; value: The concept of tradition / J.C. Nyíri; value: Minority culture in a capital city / Monika Glettler; value: The reception of the Hungarian feminist movement, 1904-14 / F.T. Zsuppán; value: Paradoxes in Hungarian adepts of symbolism and decadence at the beginning of the twentieth century / André Karátson; value: Imitation or inspiration / Magda Czigány; value: The self / Petr Wittlich; value: The significance of Czech fin-de-siècle criticism / Jiří Kudrnáč; value: The modern occult revival in Vienna, 1880-1910 / Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke; value: Conclusory essay / Robert B. Pynsent.