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Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose
Marie Kolkenbrock
其他書名
Five Psycho-Sociological Readings
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2018-02-08
主題
Literary Collections / European / German
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / General
ISBN
1501330985
9781501330988
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=teJDDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question,
Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose
offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler.
While Vienna 1900 as a site of crisis has been established in the scholarship, this book focuses on the presence of forces that deny the existence of said crisis and work to contain its subversive and critical potential. Stereotype and destiny emerge in Schnitzler's prose texts as a form of these counter-critical forces. In her readings, Kolkenbrock shows that stereotype and destiny serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: the paradoxical need to be recognized as 'normal'
and
'special' at the same time. While, through the complex of "stereotype and destiny," Schnitzler's prose addresses central modern questions of identity and subjecthood, Kolkenbrock's close readings also reveal how the texts inscribe themselves aesthetically in the literary tradition of Romanticism and as such offer crucial sources for understanding Schnitzler's representations of embattled subjecthood within broader social and aesthetic traditions.