Recontextualizing Medieval Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Austria

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80270-043-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Places and Spaces, Medieval to Modern

This book explores ways in which the medieval narrative past has been re-imagined in contemporary Austria. Focusing on the Styrian Literature Pathways of the Middle Ages, the Nibelung monuments in the cities of Tulln and Pöchlarn on the Danube River, and the Siegfriedskopf at the University of Vienna, it argues that each installation constructively applies medievalism to the process of working through the twentieth-century past. Sterling-Hellenbrand uncovers how medieval texts have been re-created in the Austrian landscape and how public installations make visible the values of the communities that build them. The author demonstrates how these modern installations facilitate an innovative process of engaged remembering: they prompt us to initiate challenging conversations about the past to tell different stories for the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sterling-Hellenbrand, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Engaged Remembering

Chapter One. Literature, Landscape, and Monuments 

Chapter Two. Reconfiguring the Nibelungs in Pöchlarn and Tulln

Chapter Three. Sticky Heritage and the Siegfried Monument (Siegfriedskopf)

Chapter Four. Creating New Heritage in Styrian Literature Pathways

Chapter Five. Austria and the US: Difficult Pasts and New Heritage

Conclusion. Changing Memoryscapes

Appendix. Pathway Descriptions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sterling-Hellenbrand, Alexandra
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand is Professor of German and Global Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Her research and teaching focus on medieval German literature, Arthurian literature, and their respective afterlives from the Middle Ages to the present.