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THE HABSBURG NOSTALGIA BETWEEN MYTH AND KITSCH

SYLLABUS

WEEK ONE: INTRODUCTION

WEEK TWO: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY in WESTERN HISTORIOGRAPHY

Hans Kohn: Was the Collapse Inevitable?

Joachim Remak: How Doomed the Habsburg Empire?

Robert Kann: The Defeat of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the European Balance of Power

WEEK THREE: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY in HISTORIOGRAPHY of the SUCCESSOR STATES

Werner Suppanz: Supranationality and National Overlaps: the Habsburg Monarchy in Austrian Historiography after 1918

Tibor Frank: Conflicting Sovereignties: The Habsburg Monarchy in Hungarian Historiography

WEEK FOUR: HABSBURG ORPHANS

Stefan Zweig: The World of Yesterday, chapter 1

Franz Werfel: An Essay Upon the Meaning of Imperial Austria

WEEK FIVE: REQUIEM for the MONARCHY 1

Austeria by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

WEEK SIX: REQUIEM for the MONARCHY 2

Joseph Roth: The Radetzkymarch

WEEK SEVEN: The EMPIRE of SUBCONSCIOUSNESS

William Johnston: The Austrian Mind, chapters 15 and 16

Sara Grainham: The Habsburg Twilight, chapter 3

WEEK EIGHT: The LABORATORY of MODERNITY

Hermann Broch: Hugo von Hofmannstahl and His Time , part I, chapters 4 – 6.

Ernest Gellner: Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and the Habsburg Dilemma , part I, chapters 2 - 8

WEEK NINE: The LABORATORY of MODERNITY 2

Robert Musil: