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Authors including Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Robert Musil are seen as important representatives of Viennese Modernism. Stefan Zweig, on the other hand, whose oeuvre clearly intersects with the works of the aforementioned writers, has often been neglected in literary scholarship centering on Fin-de-Sičcle Vienna. Although numerous studies have focused on biographical parallels between Zweig and other Viennese authors, most have neglected analyzing Zweig’s poetological conceptions and contributions vis-ŕ-vis those of his contemporaries. What was Zweig’s role as a writer in turn of the century Vienna? Was Zweig really an outsider of Viennese Modernism? This panel seeks to reevaluate Zweig’s relationship regarding the cultural, artistic, scientific, literary developments in Fin-de-Sičcle Vienna. The organizers of this GSA panel are inviting papers that deal with poetological aspects of Zweig’s manifold connections with Viennese Modernism including but not limited to:
• Zweig’s network of European and Viennese writers, artists, musicians, and cultural institutions
• Zweig and Schnitzler
• Zweig and Rilke
• Zweig and Hofmannsthal
• Zweig and Psychoanalysis
• Zweig’s Jewish identity
• Zweig’s political mission after World War I
• Zweig’s role as a “global author”
• Zweig’s translations of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine
• Zweig’s groundbreaking essays on Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky
• Zweig’s pacifism
Send one-page abstracts and a short bio to both organizers Klemens.Renoldner@sbg.ac.at and Gregor.Thuswaldner@gordon.edu by February 1, 2013. The 2013 Annual Conference of the German Studies Association will be held on October 3-6 in Denver, Colorado.
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