Brussels 1900 Vienna

Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and Other Cultural Practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-45997-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 205, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 907 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

This co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity.

Seventeen chapters analyse the interconnections between new developments in literature (Verhaeren, Musil, Zweig), drama (Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), visual arts (Minne, Khnopff, Masereel, Child Art), architecture (Hoffmann, Van de Velde), music (Schönberg, Ysaÿe, Kreisler, Kolisch), as well as psychoanalysis (Varendonck, Anna Freud) and café culture. Austrian and Belgian artists played a crucial role within the complex, rich, and conflictual international networks of people, practices, institutions, and metropoles in an era of political, social and technological change and intense internationalization.

Contributors: Sylvie Arlaud, Norbert Bachleitner, Anke Bosse, Megan Brandow-Faller, Alexander Carpenter, Piet Defraeye, Clément Dessy, Aniel Guxholli, Birgit Lang, Helga Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Silvia Ritz, Hubert Roland, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Guillaume Tardif, Hans Vandevoorde.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Defraeye, Piet

Mitterbauer, Helga

Reyns-Chikuma, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Note on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Brussels 1900 Vienna: Cultural Transfers 1880–1930

Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer and Chris Reyns-Chikuma

PART 1

Staging Modernisms

1 The Power of Retheatricalization and Depersonalization

Maurice Maeterlinck and Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Anke Bosse

2 Viennese Theatre Critics on Viennese Maeterlinck Productions

Sigurd Paul Scheichl

3 Arthur Schnitzler and Theatre in Belgium: 1900–1930

Piet Defraeye

PART 2

Transpositions

4 Literary Exchanges from Vienna to Brussels 1880–1920

Hubert Roland

5 Stefan Zweig as a Mediator and Translator of Emile Verhaeren’s Poetry

Norbert Bachleitner

6 Concepts of Exoticism in Brussels and Vienna around 1900

Szilvia Ritz

7 Parallel Campaigns of Cultural Renewal

Art Nouveau, Robert Musil, and The Man Without Qualities

Aniel Guxholli

PART 3

Transformations

8 Belgian Artists and the Secessionist Battle for Modern Art

Inga Rossi-Schrimpf

9 Another Modernity? Viennese Art Criticism and the Reception of Belgian Arts and Architecture around 1900

Sylvie Arlaud

10 Fernand Khnopff, a Painter Columnist in the Viennese Press

A London–Vienna Connection via Brussels

Clément Dessy

11 Kinderkunst between Vienna and Brussels 1900

Child Art, Primitivism, and Patronage

Megan Brandow-Faller

12 Between Brussels and Vienna

Frans Masereel’s Transnational Wordless Narratives

Chris Reyns-Chikuma

PART 4

Resonances

13 Arnold Schoenberg, La Jeune Belgique, and the Dialectics of (Viennese) Modernism

Alexander Carpenter

14 Parallels and Intervals

Violinists Intersecting with Modernity

Guillaume Tardif

PART 5

Café and Psyche

15 About Well-Lit Hullaballoos and Suffocating Air

Senses in the Brussels and Viennese Cafés at the Fin-de-Siècle

Hans Vandevoorde

16 Psychoanalysts Through Translation? Julien (Johan) Varendonck (1879–1924) —— Anna Freud (1895–1982)

Birgit Lang

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Piet Defraeye, Ph.D. (1994, University of Toronto), Professor Performance Studies (U of Alberta). Publishes on contemporary performance (including Handke and Jeliniek) and directs for the stage. His current research project is on the figure of Patrice Lumumba in cultural discourse.

Helga Mitterbauer, Ph.D. (2000, University of Graz), professor of German literature at the Université libre de Bruxelles who has published monographs, volumes, and articles on German/Austrian literature, including Crossing Central Europe (co-ed., 2017).

Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Ph.D. (2000, University of Colorado), is a Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (Canada). He has published a book on Neo-japonisme, edited another one on Glénat and written over 50 articles, recently mostly on comics cultures.