The Naked Truth
Viennese Modernism and the Body
- Contents
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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 Pròdrŏmŏs (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 Proletarian 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
Art: European Art
History: European History | General History | History of Ideas
Literature and Literary Criticism: Germanic Languages
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