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Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose: Five Psycho-Sociological Readings

Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose: Five Psycho-Sociological Readings

Kolkenbrock, Marie

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in German Studies, Book 21

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1501330969
ISBN13: 9781501330964
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 8 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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.

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