À procura da literatura austríaca: da construção à análise de um mito

  • Bohunovsky, Ruth
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Publication date
January 2010
Publisher
Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
Language
Portuguese

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the central arguments of some studies and essays about Austrian literature (Menasse; Schmidt-Dengler; Sebald, Weiss, Zeyringer) that are concerned with the existence of a difference between the Austrian and other German language literatures. To illuminate the core points of these discussions, we will compare them to representative arguments about Austrian literature from post-war decades. The aim is to show that contemporary German literature studies in Austria do not dedicate themselves any more to the construction of an "Austrian myth" or to the search of an alleged "essence" of national literature. On the contrary, the construction of an "Austrian myth" has been replaced by analyses of this myth as well...

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