Suicide as Performance in Dr. Schnitzler’s Prose

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Schnitzler’s Principal Works vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The Author and His Audiences
6. The Social and Political Context of Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen in Berlin, Vienna, and New York: 1900–1933 27
7. “ . . . nothing against Arthur Schnitzler himself . . . ”: Interpreting Schnitzler on Stage in Austria in the 1950s and 1960s 59
8. Contexts
9. The Problem and Challenge of Jewishness in the City of Schnitzler and Anna O. 79
10. Which Way Out? Schnitzler’s and Salten’s Conflicting Responses to Cultural Zionism 103
11. The Writings
12. The Self as Process in an Era of Transition: Competing Paradigms of Personality and Character in Schnitzler’s Works 129
13. Schnitzler’s Turn to Prose Fiction: The Depiction of Consciousness in Selected Narratives 149
14. A Century of Intrigue: The Dramatic Works of Arthur Schnitzler 187
15. Arthur Schnitzler’s Puppet Plays 205
16. “Medizin ist eine Weltanschauung”: On Schnitzler’s Medical Writings 227
17. Schnitzler and the Discourse of Gender in Fin-de-siècle Vienna 243
18. The Overaged Adolescents of Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie 265
19. “Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image”: Crises of Masculinity in Schnitzler’s Die Fremde 277
20. The Power of the Gaze: Visual Metaphors in Schnitzler’s Prose Works and Dramas 303
21. Suicide as Performance in Dr. Schnitzler’s Prose 325
22. The Legacy
23. The Difficult Rebirth of Cosmopolitanism: Schnitzler and Contemporary Austrian Literature 349
24. Notes on the Contributors 371
25. Works Cited 375
26. Index 399