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The Austrian Imaginary of Wilderness: Landscape, History, and Identity in Contemporary Austrian Literature

Magro Algarotti, Jennifer L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345547663

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Contemporary Austrian authors, such as Christoph Ransmayr, Elfriede Jelinek, Raoul Schrott, and Robert Menasse, have incorporated wilderness as a physical place, as a space for transformative experiences, and as a figurative device into their work to provide insight into the process of nation building in Austria. At the same time, it provides a vehicle to explore the inability of the Austrian nation to come to terms with the past and face the challenges of a postmodern life. Many Austrian writers have reinvented, revised, and reaffirmed current conceptions of wilderness in order to critique varying aspects of social, cultural, and political life in Austria. I explore the way in which literary texts shape and are shaped by cultural understandings of wilderness. My dissertation not only sheds light on the importance of these texts in endorsing, perpetuating, and shaping cultural understandings of wilderness, but it also analyzes their role in critiquing and dismantling the predominant commonplace notions of it. While some of the works deal directly with the physical wilderness within Austrian borders, others employ it as an imagined entity that affects all aspects of Austrian life.
Gregor Hens (Advisor)
Bernd Fischer (Committee Member)
Bernhard Malkmus (Committee Member)
289 p.
Germanic Literature

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  • Magro Algarotti, J. L. (2012). The Austrian Imaginary of Wilderness: Landscape, History, and Identity in Contemporary Austrian Literature [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345547663

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Magro Algarotti, Jennifer. The Austrian Imaginary of Wilderness: Landscape, History, and Identity in Contemporary Austrian Literature. 2012. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345547663.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Magro Algarotti, Jennifer. "The Austrian Imaginary of Wilderness: Landscape, History, and Identity in Contemporary Austrian Literature." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345547663

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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