Description: Modern Austrian Writing is intended to familiarize the English-speaking literary world with the character of Austrian literature since 1945. A comprehensive introduction analyzes the literary discourse of modern Austrian writing within its political and sociocultural context. The history of motifs, themes, and techniques that permeate the distinctive course of contemporary Austrian literature are represented by a carefully selected compilation of texts (in the German original).
Review Quotes: «...'Modern Austrian Writing' offers readers special, currently unavailable access to the rich and vibrant materials of post-war Austrian literature.» (Austria Kultur)
«Caroline Markolin verdanken wir eins der anregendsten Bücher über die österreichische Nachkriegsliteratur, das nicht nur ein vorzügliches Lehrbuch für den Unterricht abgibt, sondern auch dem nur seinen eigenen Interessen frönenden Leser viel zu bieten hat.» (Wolfgang Paulsen, The German Quarterly)