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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: 20th-c. German literature and politics; Literature and psychoanalysis; Austrian studies; German-Jewish studies

Monographien: Karl Kraus - Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture und Catastrophe in Hapsburg Vienna (1986, Italian edn. 1989, Spanish edn. 1990, German edn. 1995).

Aufsätze und Beiträge: University studies and critical consciousness (Granta, 1969). Adorno's dialectics (Cambridge Review, 1970). Benjamin und Brecht (ibid., 1973). Hofmannsthal, Kraus and the 'Theatrum mundi', in Hofmannsthal: Commemorative Essays (ed. W.E. Yuill et al.) (1981). Facade and Function: The Alliance between Karl Kraus and Adolf Loos (9H: Architectural Magazine, 1983). The Matrix of Love: 'Warum gabst du uns die tiefen Blicke' (GLL, 1983). Novelle and Case History: Freud in Pursuit of the Falcon (LGS, 1983). Kafka's Expanded Metaphors: A Freudian Approach, in Paths and Labyrinths (ed. J.P. Stern et al.) (1985). Unreal City: Theme and Variations, in Unreal City (ed. E.F. Timms et al.) (1985). Demonic City and Enchanted Village (ibid.). Musil's Vienna and Kafka's Prague (ibid.). Archetypal Patterns in the Satire of Karl Kraus, in Karl Kraus in neuer Sicht (ed. E.F. Timms et al.) (1986). Peter Altenberg - Authenticity or Pose, in Fin-de-siècle Vienna (ed. G.J. Carr et al.) (1986). Der Satiriker und der Christ, in Kontroversen, alte und neue, II (ed. Worstbrock et al.) (1986). Satire and Society in Wilhelmine Germany (MLR, 1987). Treason of the Intellectuals? Benda, Benn, Brecht, in Visions and Blueprints (ed. E.F. Timms et al.) (1986). Freud's Library and his Private Reading, in Freud in Exile (ed. E.F. Timms et al.) (1988). Weltuntergangsphantasien in kulturkritischer Perspektive, in Freiburger literaturpsychologische Gespräche (ed. J. Cremerius) (1989). Images of the City: Vienna, Prague and the Intellectual Avant-Garde, in Decadence and Innovation - Austro-Hungarian Life and Art at the Turn of the Century (ed. R. Pynsent) (1989). 'Rächer der Natur': Zur Ästhetik der Satire bei Karl Kraus und Rosa Luxemburg, in Karl Kraus - Ästhetik und Kritik (ed. S. Kaszynski et al.) (1989). Reiflich erwogen? Karl Kraus und das kaiserliche Manifest (LK, 1989). Karl Kraus, das Militär und der 'innere Feind', in Karl Kraus et son temps (ed. G. Krebs et al.) (1989). Kokoschka's Pictographs: A Contextual Reading (Word and Image, 1990). Hesse's Therapeutic Fiction, in Modernism and the European Unconscious (ed. P. Collier et al.) (1990). The Child-Woman: Kraus, Freud, Wittles and Irma Karczewska, in Vienna 1990: From Altenberg to Wittgenstein (ed. E. Timms et al.) (1990). 'Die letzten Tage der Menschheit': Documentary Drama and Apocalyptic Allegory, in Karl Kraus - Diener der Sprache (ed. J.P. Strelka) (1990). Doppeladler und Backenbart: Zur Symbolik der österreichisch-jüdischen Symbiose bei Joseph Roth (LK, 1990). Kraus's Shakespearean Politics, in Austria in the Thirties (ed. K. Segar et al.) (1991). National Memory and the Austrian Idea from Metternich to Waldheim (MLR, 1991). Walter Benjamin's Philosphy of History (Jewish Quarterly, 1991). Kraus, Canetti and China, in Elias Canetti (ed. A. Stevens et al.) (1991). Poetry, Politics and Personalities: The Kraus-Werfel Controversy, in Franz Werfels Stellung und Werk (ed. J.P. Strelka) (1992). 'Death in Venice' as Psycho-History, in Approaches to Thomas Mann's Short Stories (ed. J.B. Berlin) (1992). Die Wiener Kreise, in Wien um 1900 (ed. J. Nautz et al.) (1993). Stefan Zweig und die Sprache der Zukunft, in Connections (ed. P. Skrine et al.) (1993). The Wandering Jew: A Leitmotif in German Literature and Politics (Inaugural Lecture, 1994). Citizenship and 'Heimatrecht' after the Treaty of Saint Germain, in The Habsburg Legacy (ed. R. Robertson et al.) (1994). Between Holocaustism and Symbiotics: New Approaches to German-Jewish Studies (Jewish Quarterly, 1994). Karl Kraus and the Struggle for Rights, in Bridging the Abyss: Reflections on Jewish Suffering, Antisemitism and Exile (ed. A. Colin et al.) (1994). The Christian Satirist (FMLS, 1995). Elegy Three: Poetry as Self-Therapy, in Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' (ed. R. Paulin et al.) (1996). In Freud's Shadow: The Double Exile of Wilhelm Stekel, in 'England? Aber wo liegt es?' Deutsche und Österreichische Emigranten in Großbritannien 1933-1945 (ed. C. Brinson et al.) (1996). Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth and the Austro-Jewish Symbiosis (Our Congregation: Journal of the Belsize Square Synagogue, 1996). Joseph Roths Antisemitismuskritik und die jüdische Identitätsproblematik, in Joseph Roth: Der Sieg über die Zeit (ed. A. Stillmark) (1996). Joseph Roth, die Grenzländer und die Grenzmenschen, in Viribus Unitis (ed. I. Slawinski et al.) (1996). Holocaust Studies and the Myths of Progress (Jewish Quarterly, 1996). Zwischen Symbiotik und Holocaustismus (Menora: Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte, 1996). The Wandering Jew: A Leitmotif in European Literature from Goethe to James Joyce (Maynooth College Record, 1996). Ambassador Herzl and his Blueprint for a Modern State (Austrian Studies, 1997*). Karl Kraus - Highlights and Shadows (Austrian Studies, 1997*).

Übersetzungen: (with D. Kelley) Unreal City: Urban Experience in Modern European Literature and Art (1985). (with S.P. Scheichl) Karl Kraus in neuer Sicht (1986). (with P. Collier) Visions and Blueprints: Avant-Garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Europe (1986). (with N. Segal) Freud in Exile: Psychoanalysis and its Vicissitudes (1988). (with R. Robertson) Vienna 1900: From Altenberg to Wittgenstein (1990). (with R. Robertson) The Austrian Enlightenment and its Aftermath (1991). (with R. Robertson) Psychoanalysis in its Cultural Context (1992). (with R. Robertson) Tradition and Innovation in the Austrian Theatre (1993). (with R. Robertson) The Habsburg Legacy: National Identity in Historical Perspective (1994). Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels (1995; German edn. 1996; French, Spanish and Portuguese edns. forthcoming). (with R. Robertson) Austrian Exodus: The Creative Achievements of Refugees from National Socialism (1995). (with R. Robertson) Gender and Politics in Austrian Fiction (1996). (with R. Robertson) Theodor Herzl and the Origins of Zionism (1997*).

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