The Rough Guide to Austria

Author: Jonathan Bousfield
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858287096
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 636

Book Description
Venture across every inch of this prosperous and stable central European country, from the cosmopolitan capital of Vienna--packed with cultural offerings and late-night musikcafes--to the awesome Alpine backwaters of the Tyrol or winemaking villages. Learn how to stretch your budget in what can be an expensive country to visit. 40 maps. color photos.

The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

Author: Charlotte Ashby
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857457659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Just as the café served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

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Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description

The Rough Guide to Vienna

Author: Rob Humphreys
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858287256
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
This distinctive city guide swells with incisive listings to the best and best-value Vienna offerings in hotels, restaurants, and night life, as well as the city's famous cafes. Information on Vienna's spectacular sights and day trips both inside and outside the city is featured. 30 maps and plans. of color maps.

The Rough Guide to Vienna

Author: Rough Guides
Publisher: Rough Guides UK
ISBN: 1848366825
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
The Rough Guide to Vienna is the ultimate guide to one of Europe's most elegant and civilised capital cities. From the world-class art galleries and museums full of Art Nouveau and Modernist pieces to getting off the beaten track and exploring the narrow, cobbled backstreets of the Innere Stadt or the lively cafés and bars of the Naschmarkt area, this guide covers it all. Frank, incisive reviews take you straight to the best of the city's coffee houses, restaurants and nightlife venues, from the minimalist to the magnificently traditional, while tell-it-like-it-is listings help you find the right accommodation for your budget, whether that's a boutique hotel off Karlsplatz, a grand classic on the Ringstrasse, or just a perfect budget hideaway. With inspirational photography, neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood accounts and detailed, up-to-date maps, The Rough Guide to Vienna is the perfect companion for a weekend away or a longer city break. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Vienna.

Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins

Author: Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571131713
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Transforming the Center, Eroding the Marginsis a collection ofcritical articles about recent and contemporary German literaturedesigned to stimulate discussion about German-speaking culture from thepoint of view of diversity. The combination of broad historicalapproaches and detailed textual analyses made it possible to present inthis volume a spectrum of identities and positions within theGerman-speaking sphere, and sometimes even within the work of a singleauthor. Examining the works of German-speaking authors of differentbackgrounds and countries of residence from many different points ofview shows that the very concept of a unified "German Culture" is aconstruct.Because of the increasing visibility of various ethnic,religious, cultural, and economic groups -- including migrant workers,exiles, and immigrants -- multiculturalism and cultural diversity inCentral Europe have received considerable attention in public debatesince the disintegration of the Eastern bloc and the fall of the BerlinWall. Yet neither cultural diversity nor the gender issues examinedthroughout the volume are recent phenomena. Upon closer scrutiny thenotions of center and margin are shown to have origins in the nineteenthcentury and before.The articles in this volume, distinct in theirapproaches and each one concerned with specific situations, reveal anongoing decline of mainstream discourse: the erosion of the cultural"center," and a strengthening of what continues to be referred to as"marginal." The literary and intellectual production of groups that areseen as marginal is becoming ever more compelling and visible, as isdocumented in Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins.

Vienna

Author: Tag Gronberg
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039110469
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
In Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century the question of what it meant to be modern was a heated topic of debate. Focusing on interior design, fashion and photography, as well as on painting and architecture, this study casts fresh light on the vital role of the arts in these debates. The 'new' art and literature was crucial in defining a distinctive Viennese modernity while at the same time challenging preconceptions about modern urban life. Many artists and writers produced work that questioned and undermined oppositions between city and country, interior spaces and panoramic views, masculinity and femininity. Issues of gender and the representation of the body were particularly important in establishing professional identities for some of Vienna's most prominent figures, including the Secessionist painters Gustav Klimt and Carl Moll, designers such as Adolf Loos and Emilie Flöge, as well as the poet and feuilletonist Peter Altenberg. Intellectual life in turn-of-the-century Vienna has often been characterised as a retreat from the public sphere. This book demonstrates how - even in its ostensibly most private manifestations - Viennese Modernism involved a highly performative set of practices aimed at an international audience.

Cafes and Bars

Author: Christoph Grafe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134228171
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America. This volume presents and examines this significant urban architectural production, and discusses it against a background of the design of cafes and bars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Major themes and developments are discussed and illustrated with case studies, from the functionalist pre-World War Two architects in Central Europe representing modern society through the design of public spaces, right up to the design of sophisticated bars and cafes as part of the recent urban renaissance of Barcelona and Paris in 1980s and London in the '90s.

Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order

Author: Theresa Biberauer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199684359
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 549

Book Description
This title considers whether any generalisations can be made about word order in language. The chapters, written by international scholars, draw on data from several 'disharmonic' and typologically distinct languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Basque, French, English, Hixkaryana (a Cariban language), Khalkha Mongolian, Uyghur Turkic, and Afrikaans.

The Skin Map

Author: Stephen R Lawhead
Publisher: Lion Fiction
ISBN: 1782640266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Step into a world of adventure and intrigue with this thrilling tale of time travel and parallel universes. Kit Livingstone discovers a shocking truth about the ley lines in Britain - they are not just legend, but gateways to other worlds. Alongside a team of intrepid explorers, Kit embarks on a quest to recover the lost Skin Map - a code that holds the key to unlocking the secrets of the multiverse. But the journey is fraught with danger and the ultimate prize is far beyond what anyone could have imagined. Join Kit on an epic journey that takes you across the omniverse and beyond. This is a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.