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Austria and other margins
Austria and Other Margins: Reading Culture offers a series of case studies that redefine what "reading culture" can mean in literary and cultural studies. Four of Arens's essays trace how authors borrow and rewrite literary traditions across national lines, in order to address problems in their own cultures' histories. Heimito von Doderer rewrites Dostoyevsky; Morike, Hildesheimer, and Peter Shafer offer competing Mozarts; John Irving draws narrative impetus from Gunter Grass; and Robert Wilson confronts German theater audiences with US culture from the 1930s on. In the second set of essays, Professor Arens illustrates how literature can cross other kinds of cultural boundaries, especially those between disciplines. Stifter's work on educational psychology lies at the basis of his narrative strategy; Schnitzler's familiarity with popular psychology suggests new ways to read his...
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