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Phantom empires : the novels of Alexander Lernet-Holenia and the question of postimperial Austrian identity
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Phantom empires : the novels of Alexander Lernet-Holenia and the question of postimperial Austrian identity

Author: Robert Dassanowsky
Publisher: Riverside, CA : Ariadne Press, ©1996.
Series: Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A former Austro-Hungarian officer and a nobleman, Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) was a writer obsessed with the related concepts of postimperial Austrian national identity, Central European regionalism, and monarchism. Throughout most of his wide-ranging oeuvre, which includes novels, novellas, historical and biographical studies, short stories, essays, poetry, plays, and film scripts, he conveyed the image of
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Dassanowsky, Robert.
Phantom empires.
Riverside, CA : Ariadne Press, c1996
(OCoLC)605982582
Named Person: Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Dassanowsky
ISBN: 1572410302 9781572410305
OCLC Number: 34281387
Description: 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. Requiem for a Myth (1918-1934) --
II. Between Empire and Province or, The Sleepwalkers (1934-1938) --
III. Osterreich contra Ostmark (1938-1945) --
IV. A Destiny of Guilt (1945-1955) --
V. From Myth to Metamyth or, The Ambiguous Iconoclast (1955-1976).
Series Title: Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought.
Responsibility: Robert Dassanowsky.

Abstract:

A former Austro-Hungarian officer and a nobleman, Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) was a writer obsessed with the related concepts of postimperial Austrian national identity, Central European regionalism, and monarchism. Throughout most of his wide-ranging oeuvre, which includes novels, novellas, historical and biographical studies, short stories, essays, poetry, plays, and film scripts, he conveyed the image of an Austria inescapably haunted by the sociocultural elements of the lost Austro-Hungarian Empire. Reevaluation of Lernet-Holenia's work is overdue, because his fiction, previously understood only as imperial nostalgia, offers a significant representation of twentieth-century Austrian history from a conservative viewpoint. Using a sociopolitical approach, the present study analyzes the author's critical evaluations of post-imperial Austrian problems of national identity.

Ten of Lernet-Holenia's works published between 1931 and 1969 - nine novels and one novella which deal specifically with Austrian society - are examined.

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