{"product_id":"9781501357329","title":"Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose Five Psycho-Sociological Readings","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNew Directions in German Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eStereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFive Psycho-Sociological Readings\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMarie Kolkenbrock | Imke Meyer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Collections \/ European \/ German\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, \u003ci\u003eStereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While Vienna 1900 as a site of crisis has been established in the scholarship, this book focuses on the presence of forces that deny the existence of said crisis and work to contain its subversive and critical potential. Stereotype and destiny emerge in Schnitzler's prose texts as a form of these counter-critical forces. In her readings, Kolkenbrock shows that stereotype and destiny serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: the paradoxical need to be recognized as 'normal' \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e 'special' at the same time. While, through the complex of \"stereotype and destiny,\" Schnitzler's prose addresses central modern questions of identity and subjecthood, Kolkenbrock's close readings also reveal how the texts inscribe themselves aesthetically in the literary tradition of Romanticism and as such offer crucial sources for understanding Schnitzler's representations of embattled subjecthood within broader social and aesthetic traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMarie Kolkenbrock\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of German and Dutch at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is also Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna, Austria, and Postdoctoral By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22 August 2019\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501357329\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e280\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11.52\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332700635276,"sku":"9781501357329","price":43.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_6b3dd2af-f824-4569-a485-7ec7aea9ea60.jpg?v=1783605101","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781501357329","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}