Turn of the Century: c. 1890-1920 [Spring 2009]

Suggested Readings from Jane Ambrose

Note: This list is intended as general suggestions for the series as a whole, not just for Jane Ambrose's own lectures.

General:

• Frederick Karl: Modern and Modernism (1988)
• CB Harbison: Disappearing through the Skylight (1989)
• Barbara Tuchman: The Proud Tower (1966)
• Frederic Morton: Thunder at Twilight (1989)
• Carl Schorske: Fin de Siecle Vienna (1980)
• Janik & Toulman: Wittgenstein's Vienna (1973)
• Alexander Waugh: The Wittgenstein Family (2009)
• Peter Gay: Schnitzler's Century (2002)
• Louis Sass: Madness and Modernism (1992)
• Thomas Harrison: 1910:The Emancipation of the Dissonance (1996)

Music:

• Donald Mitchell: The Language of Modern Music (1960)
• Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise (2007)
• Charles Rosen: Schoenberg (1976)
• Igor Stravinsky: The Poetics of Music (1947)
• Conversation books of Robert Craft & Stravinsky

Fiction:

• Thomas Mann: Doktor Faustus (1947)
• Frank Tallis mysteries about Freud's Vienna – Vienna Blood (2008), etc.
• Thomas Bernhard: Wittgenstein's Nephew (1986)

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