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Title The Viennese cafe and fin-de-siecle culture [electronic resource] / edited by Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg and Simon Shaw-Miller.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 244 p. : ill. (some col.).
Series Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 16
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-227) and index.
Contents Introduction / Charlotte Ashby -- The cafes of Vienna: space and sociability / Charlotte Ashby -- Time and space in the Cafes Griensteidl and the Cafes Central / Gilbert Carr -- 'The Jew belongs in the coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe and modernity / Steven Beller -- Coffeehouse orientalism / Tag Gronberg -- Between 'the house of study' and the Kaffeehaus: the Central European cafes as a site for Hebrew and Yiddish modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Michalik's cafes in Krakow: cafes and caricature as media of modernity / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- The coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: similarities and differences with the Viennese coffeehouse / Ines Sabotic -- Adolf Loos's Karntner Bar: reception, reinvention, reproduction / Mary Costello -- Graphic and interior design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900 : experience and identity / Jeremy Aynsley -- The cliche of the Viennese cafes as an extended living-room: formal - parallels and differences / Richard Kurdiovsky -- Coffeehouses and tea parties: conversational spaces as a stimulus to creativity in Sigmund Freud's Vienna and Virginia Woolf's London / Edward Timms.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Coffeehouses -- Austria -- Vienna.
Coffeehouses -- Social aspects.
Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Intellectual life.
Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Vienna (Austria) -- Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ashby, Charlotte.
Gronberg, Tag.
Shaw-Miller, Simon, 1960-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780857457646 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780857457653 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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