Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. The Body on Display: Staging the Other, Shaping the Self -- Science and Spectacle: "Exotic" Bodies on Display -- Fictional Encounters? Peter Altenberg's Ashantee (1897) -- Somatic Utopias: Viennese Hygiene Exhibitions -- Literary Life Reform: Peter Altenberg's Pròdromos (1906) -- Nature and Culture on Stage -- 2. The Body in Pieces: Viennese Literature's Anatomies -- Becoming the Blade: Vivisection as the Primal Scene -- In the Dissecting Room: Arthur Schnitzler and Marie Pappenheim -- Viennese Symptoms, Human Fragments: Joseph Roth's Journalism -- The Politics and Poetics of Viennese Corpses: Carry Hauser and Joseph Roth -- Corpse as Capital: Ödön von Horváth's Faith, Hope, and Charity (1932) -- 3. The Patient's Body: Working-Class Women in the Clinic -- Finding a Voice: The Poetics of Pregnancy (Marie Pappenheim and Ilka Maria Ungar) -- Egon Schiele in the Clinic -- In the Women's Clinic: Architecture, Gaze, Film -- Speaking for Suffering Mothers: Else Feldmann and Carry Hauser -- The Politics and Public Visibility of Workers' Bodies -- 4. The Body in Motion: Staging Silent Expression -- Body Language and Crisis of Language -- Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Power of Pantomime -- Self and Other: Exploring Identity through Free Dance -- Making Modern Dance Viennese -- Celluloid Gestures and the Cinematic Body -- The Worker's Body: Modern Dance, Machine Culture, and Social Democracy -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. The Body on Display: Staging the Other, Shaping the Self -- 2. The Body in Pieces: Viennese Literature's Anatomies -- 3. The Patient's Body: Working- Class Women in the Clinic -- 4. The Body in Motion: Staging Silent Expression -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Problem melden