Arthur Schnitzler’s Heroes in a Theatricalized Space of Vienna Cover Image

Bohaterowie Arthura Schnitzlera w steatralizowanej przestrzeni Wiednia
Arthur Schnitzler’s Heroes in a Theatricalized Space of Vienna

Author(s): Joanna Surowiec
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: city-space; modernism; theatricalization; Vienna; Arthur Schnitzler

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the work of a Viennese modernist Arthur Schnitzler in the context of the phenomenon of theatricalization in city-space. The author attempts to define the civilizational and cultural reasons for theatrical behaviours and the results of living modern life a la spectacle. She believes that Arthur Schnitzler, incorporating into literature one of the most important scientific discoveries of his time – psychoanalysis, showed the relationship between the city and mental diseases but also between the latter and the phenomenon of theatricalization.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 167-183
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish