Marking National Space on the Habsburg Austrian Borderlands 1880–1918

Early in Fritz Mauthner’s 1913 novel,Der letzte Deutsche von Blatna,the hero, Anton Gegenbauer, remarks on a minor renovation to an arcade in the main square of his fictional small town, Blatna. For Mauthner and his protagonist, these external cosmetic changes reflect some much deeper transformation...

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Published inShatterzone of Empires p. 122
Main Author Pieter M. Judson
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Indiana University Press 15.02.2013
Subjects
Ambivalence
Behavioral sciences
Borderlands
Children
Cognitive psychology
Countries
Cultural nationalism
Earth sciences
Emotion
Emotional states
Geographic regions
Geography
Germanicism
Group identity
Human geography
Human populations
National identity
Nationalism
Persons
Physical sciences
Political geography
Population studies
Psychology
Social psychology
Social sciences
Territories
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Summary:Early in Fritz Mauthner’s 1913 novel,Der letzte Deutsche von Blatna,the hero, Anton Gegenbauer, remarks on a minor renovation to an arcade in the main square of his fictional small town, Blatna. For Mauthner and his protagonist, these external cosmetic changes reflect some much deeper transformations that have gradually overtaken the fictional Bohemian community. The words “Stephan Silber’s Gasthaus”—“zum römischen Kaiser”—had decorated the middle arcade for 20 years. [As a child] Anton had first practiced his knowledge of spelling by reading those freshly gilded letters. Now the text had been whitewashed and the bright red letters that
ISBN:9780253006318
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