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Vienna : a Cultural History.
Foreword by Neal Acheson. Part I: The Capua of Minds. Vienna Preserved: the Palimpsest. Vienna Liberata: Civic Pride and the Metropolis. How to be Viennese. Masters and Servants: a Tale of Cognitive Dissonance. Love-Hate and Austromasochism. Cliches and the Art of Self-Irony. Backing into the Future...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2008.
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| Colección: | Cityscapes.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Village and World City; Part One: THE CAPUA OF MINDS: ... OUR BELOVED AND HATED VIENNA
- Chapter One: VIENNA PRESERVED: THE PALIMPSEST; Chapter Two: VIENNA LIBERATA: CIVIC PRIDE AND MENTROPOLIS; Chapter Three: HOW TO BE VIENNESE; Chapter Four: MASTERS AND SERVANTS: A TALE OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; Chapter Five: LOVE-HATE AND AUSTROMASOCHISM; Chapter Six: CLICHÉS AND THE ART OF SEKF-IRONY; Chapter Seven: BACKING INTO THE FUTURE; Part Two: THE SPIRIT OF PLACE; Chapter Eight: WIEN: A PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL TOPOGRAPHY.
- Landscape and Its Influence on the VienneseRiver, Stay Away From My Door ; Chapter Nine: NOTES ON WIENERISCH DIALECT AND WIENERLIEDER; Vienna in Words and Music; Chapter Ten: THE DEATH CULT IN VIENNA: OF JOYFUL MOURNING AND MACABRE PLEASURES; Chapter Eleven: THE LIFE OF THE PHAEACIANS: FROM HEEDLESS HEDONISM TO HAPPINESS IN A QUIET CORNER; Perils of the Viennese Skin Trade; Part Three: THE AGES OF THE CITY; Chapter Twelve: THE ROMANS ON THE DANUBE; Relics of the Roman Era; Chapter Thirteen: LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL: FROM THE DARK AGES TO THE BABENBERGS; Babenberg Rule.
- The Babenbergs' Self-Promotion and Economic SuccessPlaces and Monuments Associated with the Babenbergs; Monasteries and Abbeys around Vienna; Chapter Fourteen: THE EARLY HABSBURGS: FROM GOTHIC TO RENAISSANCE; Rudolf the Founder; Vienna and the Jews in the Middle Ages; Emperor Friedrich III; Some Sights Associated with Přemysl Otakar and the Early Habsburgs; Chapter Fifteen: HUMANISM, REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION; Humanist Learning in Vienna; Reformation and Counter-Reformation; Habsburgs between Reformation and Counter-Reformation; Renaissance Sights in Vienna.
- Chapter Sixteen: BAROQUE VIENNALeopold I: The Baroque Emperor
- Abraham a Sancta Clara: Plague, Protestants, Jews and Turks; The Siege of Vienna (1683); The Baroque Building Boom; The Culture of the Senses and the Culture of the Word
- Baroque Profane Architecture: the Hofburg and Palaces for the Nobility; Three Baroque Churches; Other Baroque Monuments; Chapter Seventeen: VIENNA IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT; The Enlightenment in Central Europe; Musical Culture under Maria Theresia and Joseph II; The Enlightened Absolutism of Joseph II.
- Some Sights Associated with Maria Theresia and Joseph IIChapter Eighteen: BIEDERMEIER VIENNA; The World of Biedermeier; Some Sights Associated with Biedermeier Culture; Chapter Nineteen: FROM REVOLUTION TO RINGSTRAßE: THE GRÜNDERZEIT (FOUNDERS PERIOD) AND RINGSTAßEN ERA; The Strauss Dynasty; The Ringstrassen Era; Musical Innovation and Rivalries in Ringstrassen Vienna; Historicist Buildings along the Ringstrasse; Chapter Twenty: FIN-DE-SIÈCLE VIENNA; The Vienna Secession; Erotic Vienna; The Realists; The Coffee-house Literati; Some Sights Associated with fin-desiècle Vienna.