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"An Austrian Avant-Garde offers a critical survey of experimental writing from Austria that captures the tensions inherent in the history of the avant-garde. Starting with texts from the 1950s by the Vienna Group, the anthology offers a survey of the complex, contested landscape of post-1945 Austrian literature, with an emphasis on the work of women writers. The editors' preface and their introductions to individual texts offer contextualization and commentary that make the anthology accessible to a wide readership. Edited by Sabine Zelger and Patrick Greaney. With texts by: Friedrich Achleitner, Ilse Aichinger, H.C. Artmann, Heimrad Bäcker, Konrad Bayer, Ann Cotten, Elfriede Gerstl, Elfriede Jelinek, Ilse Kilic, Margret Kreidl, Florjan Lipus, Friederike Mayröcker, Andreas Okopenko, Julian Palacz, Kathrin Röggla, Gerhard Rühm, Lisa Spalt, and Herbert Wimmer. PRAISE for An Austrian Avant-garde ""An Austrian Avant-garde profoundly expands our understanding of what experimental writing is and what it can do. This fantastic collection recalls to mind the premise of all radical avant-gardes--its utopian potential to bridge the distance between art and life. No one can read these writers and remain the same."" - Fatima Naqvi, Yale University"

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Patrick Greaney is professor of German and Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art and Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin, as well as essays on modern and contemporary art and literature. His translations of contemporary Swiss and Austrian literature have been published by Dalkey Archive Press and Ugly Duckling Presse. Sabine Zelger is professor at the Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule in Vienna and Krems. She has published widely on modern and contemporary Austrian literature. She is the author and co-editor of several books on topics such as the theories of political action in literature and the media, the theory and poetics of bureaucracy in Austria, and a cultural history of the telephone. Her research focuses on literature's political and didactic potential for addressing social and political issues.

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