Welttheater
Hugo von Hofmannsthal had a lifelong fascination with the theatrum mundi topos. Judith Beniston analyses his changing responses to it against an unfamiliar backdrop - the revival of Catholic drama which, from the 1890s onwards, accompanied the rise of Austria’s Christian Social party. The solipsism...
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| description | Hugo von Hofmannsthal had a lifelong fascination with the theatrum mundi topos. Judith Beniston analyses his changing responses to it against an unfamiliar backdrop - the revival of Catholic drama which, from the 1890s onwards, accompanied the rise of Austria’s Christian Social party. The solipsism of ‘Jung Wien’ and the conservative modernism of the Salzburg Festival are juxtaposed with the career of Richard von Kralik (1852-1934), the key figure in Austria’s Catholic literary culture from 1890 to 1934. This study offers close readings of Das kleine Welttheater and Das Salzburger große Welttheater, and explores the ramifications of the fascination with the notion of Welttheater which Hofmannsthal and Kralik shared. In juxtaposing elite and popular culture, Beniston sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Austrian cultural history, on the selectivity of Hofmannsthal’s approach towards Austria’s Baroque tradition, and on the difficulties he faced in his attempt to assimilate his own work into it. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1671272025-10-16T12:38:01Z Welttheater Beniston, Judith Hugo von Hofmannsthal Catholic drama Austria Austrian Christian Social Party Salzburg Festival Richard von Kralik thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFA Austria thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 Hugo von Hofmannsthal had a lifelong fascination with the theatrum mundi topos. Judith Beniston analyses his changing responses to it against an unfamiliar backdrop - the revival of Catholic drama which, from the 1890s onwards, accompanied the rise of Austria’s Christian Social party. The solipsism of ‘Jung Wien’ and the conservative modernism of the Salzburg Festival are juxtaposed with the career of Richard von Kralik (1852-1934), the key figure in Austria’s Catholic literary culture from 1890 to 1934. This study offers close readings of Das kleine Welttheater and Das Salzburger große Welttheater, and explores the ramifications of the fascination with the notion of Welttheater which Hofmannsthal and Kralik shared. In juxtaposing elite and popular culture, Beniston sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Austrian cultural history, on the selectivity of Hofmannsthal’s approach towards Austria’s Baroque tradition, and on the difficulties he faced in his attempt to assimilate his own work into it. 2025-10-16T12:38:00Z 2025-10-16T12:38:00Z 2025-10-14T13:52:50Z 1998 book ONIX_20251014T154955_9781839546846_7 0957-0322 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106492 9781839546846 0901286842 https://admin.directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167127 eng MHRA Texts and Dissertations open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106492/1/9781839546846.pdf Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Translations 10.59860/td.b05062a 10.59860/td.b05062a 263272ae-2045-451b-ac91-b0037a2fd63a 9781839546846 0901286842 Texts and Translations 293 Cambridge open access |
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