{"title":"In Echo's Cave: Gendered Guilt and Anthropocene Repercussions in Texts by Christoph Ransmayr and Valerie Fritsch","authors":"Conor Brennan","doi":"10.1353/aus.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aus.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Analysing Valerie Fritsch's novel Winter's Garden (2015) alongside a range of texts by Christoph Ransmayr, the article considers the gendered elements of their engagement with the Anthropocene. Criticism on Ransmayr, the article argues, has largely overlooked the centrality of gendered domination to his work, which is traced here from its origins in his early fiction through to his latest novel The Fall Master (2021). Both writers respond to the Anthropocene with techniques of literary 'vaguening'. Gender dynamics thus operate in the texts not only as allegory, but also as a form of specificity that counters the risk of all-encompassing abstraction.Abstract:Der Artikel untersucht den Roman Winters Garten (2015) von Valerie Fritsch und eine Reihe von Texten von Christoph Ransmayr bezüglich der genderspezifischen Elemente ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Anthropozän. Da die Ransmayr-Kritik die zentrale Rolle der gender-spezifischen Herrschaft in seinem Werk bisher weitestgehend übersehen hat, wird diese hier von den Anfängen in seinen frühen Roman bis zu seinem neuesten Roman Der Fallmeister (2021) nachgezeichnet. Beide Autor:innen reagieren auf das Anthropozän mit Techniken des literarischen 'vaguening [Vagheit]'. Gender-Dynamiken funktionieren dabei nicht nur als Allegorie, sondern auch als eine Form der Spezifität, die der Gefahr einer allumfassenden Abstraktion entgegenwirkt.","PeriodicalId":41034,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"169 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42746714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vienna: The International Capital by Angus Robertson (review)","authors":"Andrew Barker","doi":"10.1353/aus.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aus.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41034,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"206 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41351837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gardening as an Ecological and Educational Project: Stifter's Anticipation of Anthropocene Thinking and Aesthetics in Der Nachsommer","authors":"A. Goodbody","doi":"10.1353/aus.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aus.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The writing of Adalbert Stifter has been examined in three recent collections of essays on German-language literature in the Anthropocene. This article reviews the grounds for considering Stifter an early Anthropocene author, and discusses the passages in Der Nachsommer depicting Freiherr von Risach's gardening practices with an eye to qualities associated with gardening in the Anthropocene. Stifter depicts gardening as a way of interacting with nature characterized by respect, care and cooperation. At the same time, he develops aesthetic strategies which anticipate and respond to the challenge which the Anthropocene poses to the novel as a literary form.Abstract:Das Werk von Adalbert Stifter ist bereits in drei neueren Aufsatzsammlungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur im Anthropozän untersucht worden. Dieser Artikel überprüft die Gründe dafür, Stifter als einen Autor des frühen Anthropozäns zu betrachten, und erörtert die wichtigsten Stellen im Roman Der Nachsommer, an denen die Gartenpraktiken des Freiherrn von Risach dargestellt werden, mit Blick auf Eigenschaften, die mit dem Gärtnern im Anthropozän verbunden sind. Stifter schildert das Gärtnern als einen Umgang mit der Natur, der von Respekt, Sorgfalt und Kooperation geprägt ist. Gleichzeitig entwickelt er ästhetische Strategien, die auf die Herausforderung reagieren, die das Anthropozän für den Roman als literarische Form darstellt.","PeriodicalId":41034,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"15 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47758975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Austrian StudiesPub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0047
Leitgeb
{"title":"The Uncanny in Paulus Hochgatterer's Crime Fiction","authors":"Leitgeb","doi":"10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The hidden depths of an idyllic Heimat, the return of a repressed past/history, the representation of that which cannot easily be put into words: discussions about what is typically Austrian in Austrian crime fiction implicitly revolve around the function of the uncanny. Child and adolescent psychiatrist and author Paulus Hochgatterer is justifiably prominent in these discussions. His detective trilogy encompasses the genre of ‘provincial crime fiction’ as well as conscious engagement with psychoanalysis and literary aspirations. All three texts deliberately position themselves outside the genre conventions of traditional analytical detective novels and thrillers. This article analyses the distinction between narrative tension and the uncanny which underpins Hochgatterer's plots.","PeriodicalId":41034,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"47 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47598656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Austrian StudiesPub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0121
Julia Secklehner
{"title":"Unsettling Heimat and the Touristic Ideal: Tropes of the Uncanny in Lois Hechenblaikner's Anti-Heimat Photography","authors":"Julia Secklehner","doi":"10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0121","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The pre-formatted surface of a Heimat idyll has long been an important site of criticism in Austrian culture. Expanding this critique within the Anti-Heimat genre, this article focuses on three photo series by Lois Hechenblaikner to argue that the uncanny represents a significant aspect in contemporary visual culture by subverting the strong visuality of the Heimat ideal as it is promoted in mass tourism. Dissecting Heimat as a commercial product, Hechenblaikner explores the dark sides of alpine tourism and mass consumerism and uses the uncanny as a central trope in unmasking the destructive elements of Heimat in the contemporary tourist industry.","PeriodicalId":41034,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"121 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43174095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women's Academy by Megan Brandow-Faller (review)","authors":"Laura Morowitz","doi":"10.1353/aus.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aus.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41034,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"195 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44521492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}